Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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How I organise my film diaryIn my previous post, I included a breakdown of where I had watched my first one hundred films this year. I realised that I didn't sufficiently explain how I had this data on hand. So, this post will be an explainer on how I use tags in Letterboxd to organise my film diary in a loosely...
Wagner Moura as Marcelo in The Secret Agent. Photograph: 2025 MK2 Films A film diary updateI walked out of the cinema last Saturday having seen my 100th film for the year. Not the 100th at the cinema, the 100th overall. Being a diligent Letterboxd logger, I could tell you exactly where I've seen them. These are the...
Getting used to longer running intervalsWeek 4 of couch to 5k is all about longer running intervals compared to walking intervals. This is what that looks like. 5-minute warm up walk 3-minute run 90-second walk 5-minute run 2.5-minute walk A repeat of steps 2, 3 and 4 5-minute cooldown walk Bookended by stretching,...
Another pre-gig dispatchWhile browsing the IndieWeb wiki looking for /now page examples the other day, I came across Max Dietrich's now page, which has a section that displays his current location and the weather there. I wanted to add something similar to mine. After a bit of research, I found out that the best way...
Hello SSGI've been thinking of ditching WordPress for a static site generator (SSG) for some time now. WordPress has been great for the last 12 years, and I have no gripes with it as such (except the block editor, which just refuses to co-operate sometimes), but rebuilding a (version of this) site from the ground up...
A serif with personalityI happened upon the This American Life website the other day, and fell absolutely and utterly in love with the typeface. After a quick search I found out that it was called Maiola, designed by Veronika Burian of TypeTogether (Futura, Athelas). I had to get it. To my great delight, I...
A dramatic coastal walk with killer views It is finally spring in Northern Ireland. The threat of sudden rainfall never really goes away, but it's sunnier than usual. We decided to take advantage of the good weather last weekend, by venturing outdoors see a part of the country we haven't seen before. We had planned...
A decent startI just returned from the first run of the 3rd week of my Couch to 5k programme, and I'm feeling surprisingly good. Here's what today's run looked like: Start with a pre-run stretch (I've found this quick 5 minute stretch to be quite effective) A brisk 5-minute walk to warm up A 90-second running...
Finding joy in web designI'm really leaning in to the idea of treating my website like a digital garden—a truly personal corner of the internet. I've made a few changes with this in mind: A new /garden page, where I've aggregated links to all sections of the site, such as my blog (/notebook), /now, /uses, etc....
Denise Weinberg as Tereza in The Blue Trail Some thoughts on two recent Brazilian cinema outingsTwo of my favourite films this year so far are from Brazil—The Blue Trail, and The Secret Agent. Both feature individuals on a similar journey, in that they are desperately trying to escape the tyrannical grasp of a...
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