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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All posts (183)
A forgotten artI had to spend the day without any podcasts playing in my ears. I had simply exhausted my playlist. I cleaned the house, went out to get groceries, cooked, and washed the dishes without my headphones on. This is the first time in a long while this has happened to me. It's a strange feeling to spend an...
My second vibe-coding projectI have been continuing to use Lovable to make things for personal use. My second public project is a data visualiser, specifically, one that can be used with CSV exports from my personal finance app of choice, Finances 2. I've named it Finviz. Not the most imaginative name, but it gets...
This silly Wordle “hack” I came up with has gone placesDon't ask me how I found out, but my Wordle hack has now been cited in two peer-reviewed computer science papers. I knew about one. This paper by my friend Nisansa was published in Feb 2022, in the height of the Wordle craze: Selecting Seed Words for Wordle...
Keeping a diary of performances I’ve witnessedMy attempt to turn this website into a disjointed, mini-social-media-site for myself has resulted in yet another brand new section: a gig timeline. I decided not to limit this to just music. I am documenting theatre performances, talks, and other kinds of performance art...
Leaving a digital footprintI spent some time earlier this month archiving two past projects that I had been involved in. The first was the podcast—The Bad Take—I used to host with my friend Himal. We started in 2018, and recorded the occasional episode until our last one in 2022. Producing regular episodes was no...
Looking back at 12 years on the internet12 years ago today, I wrote and published my first blog post. It was a badly written piece about world affairs—among the topics I had covered were the Russian annexation of Crimea and the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370. Reading it today, I'm confused as to what I was trying...
A long weekend well spentI took two days off work this week—which is quite a rare thing for me to do—to fly off the Manchester. I go there quite a lot for gigs, and I feel like I know the city quite well even though I have never lived there. This was a quick trip. I flew there on Monday and flew back to Belfast on...
How I vibe-coded a simple catalogue appFor the longest time, my Blu-ray collection was catalogued on a spreadsheet. Compared to heavy-hitters on r/4kbluray and other corners of the physical media loving internet, my collection is unremarkably small (around 250 titles at the time of writing), and my spreadsheet...
Some thoughts swirling around in my head after watching the new documentaryThere are two kinds of people in the world: Those who don’t know much, or anything at all, about Jeff Buckley. Those who adore him to bits. I’m staunchly in the latter camp. The new doc, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, I felt, is for the...
A “quick” update that took a while It's been a while since the last iteration of my website, thamara.xyz. It was mostly text-based. I bought the thamara.co.uk and thamara.uk domains last year, and thought I should give this space a new look. I've refreshed everything. The homepage, the blog (which has now been moved...
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