My name is Shivan (pronounced Shiv-arn).
I am Kiwi born 🇳🇿 with Sri Lankan 🇱🇰 heritage.
I currently work as a Software Developer after 7 years working as an Optometrist.
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About
Posts
2025
2024
2023
- Appahappah/Grandfather
- Bounding User Input in Python
- Named Anchors
- Local Heroes
- Mutability in Javascript, Typescript & Rust
- Simple Python
- Git Guide
- Environment Variables can be Tricky
- Become Confident with Database Migrations
- Being okay with who you are
- Arrow Functions and Function Definitions
- Optometrist then, Web Developer now
2022
- Why I don't watch sports, the news, movies, TV shows or play video games
- Thinking You Can Save the World
- Chapters
- Taking Risks
- Happiness
- Turning Screencasts into Animated .gifs
- Don't Forget the Shades of Grey
- Masculinity
- Padman
- My Git Cheatsheet
- What can you control?
- My Contiki Story
- Thank You
- Confidence
- My Finances and Plans for 2022
2021
- Do You Have to Cheat to Win?
- What's Stopping You From Hitting Upload
- The Future of the Web
- Optometric Intelligence
- Personal projects make you feel stupid? Don't sweat it
- Zero to Hundred in Python
- When You Lick the Lollipop of Mediocrity You Suck It Forever
- A Quick Introduction to Pytest
- Cannabis - An Unconventional Way To Treat Sight-threatening Glaucoma?