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Lakshan Perera
Personal blog · laktek.com · on HN as laktekprogrammingweb
Lakshan Perera writes LakTEK, a personal blog at laktek.com about programming and web. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-05, and you can follow it by feed.
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I struggled with this building Pragma. I was going to a crowded market with established incumbents. Most early talks with customers would always lead to "How is it better than Wordpress, Webflow, Squarespace, etc." So I started to feel we have to tick all the boxes and product never felt shippable. However, two weeks ago I took a step back and thought what if we can ship a product in 48 hours and get people to pay.…
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on “YC’s Essential Startup Advice”Submitted Thank You, Steve as a story · 151 points
HN discussionNot exactly the same, but what you describe is similar to the concept of components in Pragma (a project I'm working on). I will write a more detailed post when it's ready for release. Meanwhile you can check the "How Pragma works" in the intro blog post http://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/
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on “Next.js 2.0”Submitted Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites as a story · 91 points
HN discussionFinally! I've been waiting for this for the last 11 years http://www.laktek.com/2007/05/18/app-tld-for-web-application...
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on “Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web”Submitted Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming as a story · 85 points
HN discussionI'm also working on something similar, check http://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Simple Helper to Extract Values from a String as a story · 83 points
HN discussionIf you are on the look for a plugin with better auto-completion features, let me shamelessly pitch jQuery Smart AutoComplete - http://laktek.com/2011/03/03/introducing-jquery-smart-autoco... . It got type ahead support (like in Google search field), ability to define your own filtering algorithm and robust event system which gives the flexibility to modify almost any aspect of the behaviour. Here's the GitHub repo -…
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on “Select2 - A better way to make select boxes (with jQuery)”Submitted Embrace the Static Web with Punch as a story · 66 points
HN discussionNice. I like the way examples were constructed. BTW, here are some more cURL tips I noted down a while back, which I found to be useful for daily work. - http://laktek.com/2012/03/12/curl-tips-for-daily-use/
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on “Uses for cURL”Submitted Revisiting JavaScript Objects as a story · 52 points
HN discussionPretty interesting and this is the first time I came across the term JAMStack (a concept I always had trouble in explaining to other developers). Rendering content blocks in server and then further enhancing them on client-side using a JSON API can be how most sites will be built in future (especially, with ServiceWorkers we would be able to create more fine-grained offline experience too). I'm also currently workin…
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on “Netlify CMS – An open-source CMS for Git workflows”Submitted Distraction Free Writing with Vim as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI also took a similar stab at next-gen of SaaS few months back: http://www.laktek.com/2017/01/11/end-of-the-first-wave-of-sa... http://www.laktek.com/2017/01/12/next-wave-of-saas/
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on “What Comes After SaaS?”Submitted Understanding Types in Golang as a story · 49 points
HN discussionYes, I blogged about it on the experience of releasing Page.REST https://www.laktek.com/what-i-learned-from-building-pagerest... (and people have purchased Screen.rip tokens in the last hour or so :))
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on “Show HN: Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots”Submitted Introducing Sugarless - A Functional & Context Oriented way to write JavaScript as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI had been using very similar technique in my blog ( http://laktek.com ), for excerpts and posts lists. Actually, I believe all contents in a site should have a ranking and loaded depending on the context.
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on “Responsive Text”Submitted SPDY for Rest of Us as a story · 40 points
HN discussionShameless plug for my Go articles for anyone who wants to get a start - http://laktek.com/tag/go (Yes, I will commit to finish the rest of the series)
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on “Go at SoundCloud”Submitted Understanding Prototypical Inheritance in JavaScript as a story · 26 points
HN discussionIf you like to beta test an app, check Pragma ( https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/ )
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on “Kirby is a file-based CMS”Submitted Create Quick HTML5 Presentations with Punch as a story · 21 points
HN discussionInterested hear more about your approach. I'm also trying to solve it with Pragma - https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/ Here's a little sneak peak: https://twitter.com/laktek/status/845815533450682370
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on “Where will UX Design be in 5 years?”Submitted Different flavors of JavaScript as a story · 10 points
HN discussionHere are mine. All of them are open source: - Punch - http://github.com/laktek/punch (my most popular open source project) - Punch Blog Boilerplate - https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog - Extract Values (JS) - https://github.com/laktek/extract-values - Distraction Free Writing for Vim - https://github.com/laktek/distraction-free-writing-vim - Go wrapper for Stack Exchange API - https://github.com/laktek/Stack-on-Go…
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on “All of my side-projects from 2012”Submitted Learning Go - Constants & Iota as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI'm not sure about Bollywood, but I believe Cricket could make a bigger impact on the youth in the region. Cricketers have gained equal celebrity status (or even more) to Bollywood stars and unlike, bollywood it's a dream they can attain themselves. Especially, in Afganistan the game is spreading fast. Recently, they got to play their first international cricket match against Australia in Sharjah[1]. Also, Afgan tea…
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on “Bollywood vs. Bin Laden”Submitted Three Weeks in Japan with a Toddler as a story · 9 points
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