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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisEnding 2025 and New Beginnings today! 116 Scholarship students graduated in December of 2025 and today, 1st January 2026, we have 73 new Scholarship students starting their Education Journey to Empower themselves!! We are conducting interviews to award 47 more Scholarships right now [Call 074 202 8080 if you know of anyone 18-25, deserving this Scholarship opportunity].
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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisWe recently visited Koralaima Soyza Vidyalaya for our final school visit of the year, bringing our year-long initiative to a close. Like every visit before, our team conducted engaging ICT teaching sessions for the students before saying our goodbyes. We’ll truly miss our monthly visits and the infectious joy of the students, but we’re also excited for the year ahead as we continue spreading our impact to even more underprivileged schools and students. Swipe to check out a few snaps from the day!
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Brian Peiris posted thisIsrael will ban dozens of aid groups from Gaza starting on New Year's Day Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam Quebec and Doctors Without Borders among barred organizations The new regulations also include ideological requirements, including disqualifying organizations that have called for boycotts against Israel, denied Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel, or expressed support for any of the international court cases against Israeli soldiers or leaders. The affected groups say the timing of the ban, in the heart of Gaza’s flood-prone winter, will have deadly consequences. “We have hundreds of thousands of people living in overcrowded displacement sites where there's open sewage, where there is trash and solid waste piling up, and nowhere for the floodwaters to go other than people's tents” According to the United Nations, 1.9 million people — 90 per cent of the population — have been displaced in Gaza over the last two years. CBC News: https://lnkd.in/gAUbXceT
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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisLook closely at this image. These are not Minecraft blocks. They look playful and bright with clean edges and primary colors. They look like something you could jump over or ignore. But this is not a game. In America, yellow lines are symbolic. A line on a subway platform or a bowling lane means stand back or you might get a fine. You don’t expect to die. These blocks are different. They are not warnings. They are threats. Our team stood near them and heard the sharp crack of gunfire in the air. These blocks weren't even here a few weeks ago. They just moved. That is the horror of the shift. Imagine if the painted line in a school hallway meant a sniper could shoot your child. Imagine if stepping past a road cone meant the police were legally allowed to kill you. Imagine if a Minecraft block was actually lava but no one tells you when it turns on. Palestinians don’t even have to cross these blocks to be targeted. They just have to exist near them. You see the line. You know the rule. You obey it perfectly. You still risk being shot. They look like toys. They function like loaded guns embedded in concrete. This is not crowd control. This is psychological warfare disguised as urban design. Geometry decides who lives. If this were a game, you would stop playing immediately. For Palestinians, there is no reset button. There is no respawn.
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Brian Peiris shared thisActivism should cost you something. Over the past month I've donated to Gaza and Sudan on a daily basis. Here's a list of organizations I've found, in case it's useful to anyone else. Especially with Gaza, most of my donations have been directly to GoFundMe and Chuffed campaigns, though those are harder to verify. Sharing as an image here to bypass LinkedIn's character limits and link obfuscation. Here's the full list of links in one page: https://lnkd.in/gunub379
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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisMy family in Gaza urgently needs help to pay $800 for rent. After home was destroyed my family consists of 21 persons rent a small flat in Gaza city., they risk losing the flat if they didn’t pay in the next week You can support them pay the rent by donating via: https://lnkd.in/d7izTxA7 Or via PayPal: https://lnkd.in/dx75hyKq
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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisSri Lanka is facing an immense challenge, and our people need all the support (no matter how big or small) we can gather to rebuild and recover. #SriLanka #ParadiseIsland #Rebuild #CycloneDitwah - By Jayan
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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisAnother week of more unfolding horrors coming to light. Likely you won’t have heard of 80% of them unless you’re purposefully tracking news coming out of Gaza.
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Brian Peiris reposted thisBrian Peiris reposted thisThose are young female employees of the Union of Agricultural Work Committeesthe in Ramallah, the official representative body of Palestinian farmers in West Bank.Israeli army raided their office, blindfolded them, tied their hands, and deliberately filmed them.also stole computers and files.
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Here is a direct link that doesn't require a Facebook login: https://give.asia/campaign/help-sri-lanka-sri-lanka-flood-crisis-november-2025
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Looks like the XAMPP download is hosted on SourceForge. You could try manually choosing a different mirror, which you can do by clicking on the "Problems Downloading?" button on the download page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/8.2.12/xampp-windows-x64-8.2.12-0-VS16-installer.exe/download
If you are able to use `wget` on the command line, that may also be a more robust option instead of FDM.
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Brian Peiris liked thisBrian Peiris liked thisAll my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay. I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it. Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence. Two of the most common OSS business models: - Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...) - Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more. The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't. Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing. Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly. The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement. My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.
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Brian Peiris reacted on thisBrian Peiris reacted on thisWe recently visited Koralaima Soyza Vidyalaya for our final school visit of the year, bringing our year-long initiative to a close. Like every visit before, our team conducted engaging ICT teaching sessions for the students before saying our goodbyes. We’ll truly miss our monthly visits and the infectious joy of the students, but we’re also excited for the year ahead as we continue spreading our impact to even more underprivileged schools and students. Swipe to check out a few snaps from the day!
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Brian Peiris liked thisBrian Peiris liked thisEnding 2025 and New Beginnings today! 116 Scholarship students graduated in December of 2025 and today, 1st January 2026, we have 73 new Scholarship students starting their Education Journey to Empower themselves!! We are conducting interviews to award 47 more Scholarships right now [Call 074 202 8080 if you know of anyone 18-25, deserving this Scholarship opportunity].
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Brian Peiris liked thisBrian Peiris liked thisEnding 2025 and New Beginnings today! 116 Scholarship students graduated in December of 2025 and today, 1st January 2026, we have 73 new Scholarship students starting their Education Journey to Empower themselves!! We are conducting interviews to award 47 more Scholarships right now [Call 074 202 8080 if you know of anyone 18-25, deserving this Scholarship opportunity].
Experience & Education
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Tarana Foundation
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Virtual Reality in Software Engineering: Affordances, Applications, and Challenges
Proceedings of The 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - New Ideas and Emerging Results
An introductory paper describing affordances that virtual reality might benefit software engineering, along with example applications of the concepts.
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jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis
Packt
See publicationVisualize and analyze your data with the jQuery Flot plotting library. The book uses step-by-step guides help you get started with the Flot library and apply it to real-world data.
Patents
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Method and system for defining a selection range for a variable speed device
Issued CA 2818310
A method, computer system, and computer readable medium for defining boundaries of a selection range for a variable speed device [...]. The method includes: [...] displaying on a graphical interface screen a graph of the first parameter versus the second parameter, the graph having displayed thereon a region representing the selection range.
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RiftSketch: A web-based live-coding application for virtual reality
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See projectRiftSketch is a virtual reality web app that allows you to describe your own virtual world in code and watch it change around you, instantly, as you type.
RiftSketch is built with JavaScript, running in Firefox and Chrome, using preliminary WebVR APIs and the Three.js WebGL…RiftSketch is a virtual reality web app that allows you to describe your own virtual world in code and watch it change around you, instantly, as you type.
RiftSketch is built with JavaScript, running in Firefox and Chrome, using preliminary WebVR APIs and the Three.js WebGL library.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/6/6917343/watch-the-developer-become-god-in-this-precursor-to-the-metaverse
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8411638
https://github.com/brianpeiris/RiftSketch
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