The Journey

By Shivan Sivakumaran

My life's journey talking about technology 💻, optometry 👓 and a whole variety straight into your inbox every Sunday morning NZT.

Previous issues

Vlogmas and Advent of Code

#68 Dec 5, 2021

What's stopping you from hitting upload?

#67 Nov 28, 2021

The hype around technologies

#66 Nov 21, 2021

#65

Nov 14, 2021

My Journey Home – Kia ora e hoa,Friday night turns into Saturday morning. It's roughly 2 am. A six-hour delayed ferry c
#64

Nov 7, 2021

The Future of the Web – Kia ora e hoa,With all the negatives happening in the world, there is one good: democratisation. But,
#63

Oct 31, 2021

Feeling dumb... – Kia ora e hoa,Lately, I've been feeling stupid, and it has been getting me down.Since last month, I'v
#62

Oct 24, 2021

"When you lick the lollipop of mediocrity, you suck it forever" – Kia ora e hoa,End-of-year prize-giving evening was their last time. Final year students and teachers
#61

Oct 17, 2021

Update - I'm moving – Kia ora o hoa,I'm moving back to Palmerston North at the start of November. So, I've been swamped say
#60

Oct 3, 2021

Revisiting Aotearoa New Zealand's Border Restrictions – Kia ora e hoa,My grandfather is 95. My grandmother is 86. Both are living in Sri Lanka. My father is
#59

Sep 26, 2021

Reflecting on Low Vision Optometry – Kia ora e hoa,I want to share my experience as a Low Vision (LV) optometrist working for LightHouse T
#58

Sep 19, 2021

Ethical Artificial Intelligence
#57

Sep 12, 2021

Going deeper into Deep Learning
#56

Sep 5, 2021

A deep learning of Deep Learning
#55

Aug 15, 2021

Taking time... – Kia ora e hoa,I'm going to take some time out to sort some things out.Life changes. It's okay to stop
#54

Aug 1, 2021

What are AlGoRitHms?
#53

Jul 25, 2021

The incredible story of Thích Quảng Đức – Kia ora e hoa,I want to talk about the story of Thích Quảng Đức. I got this from the book I'm reading
#52

Jul 18, 2021

Introducing... – Kia ora e hoa,I want to introduce something special that I have been working on.It is a web applicati
#51

Jul 11, 2021

The secret behind why I write? – Kia ora e hoa,I'm frantically writing this one 10 minutes before the usual deadline of 10 AM Sunday (
#50

Jul 4, 2021

Is Giving a Cure to Hapiness or a Selfish Act? – Kia ora e hoa,Are we rich? We probably are, but we think otherwise. So is our lack of having really t
#49

Jun 27, 2021

Getting in the flow 🌊 – Kia ora e hoa,In recent weeks, I had two conversations about the same topic. One was in front of an a

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