https://blog.malinthe.com Malinthe's blog. Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:41:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 144925824 https://blog.malinthe.com/2026/02/how-to-get-claude-to-build-playlists-on-tidal/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2026/02/how-to-get-claude-to-build-playlists-on-tidal/#respond Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:41:29 +0000 https://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1301 I recently switched from Apple Music to TIDAL. I liked Apple Music thanks to its affordable pricing, lossless audio and the vast library, but I wasn’t a fan of its Windows application. It didn’t support exclusive mode, was slow, and sometimes it had this annoying habit of pausing music at 15 seconds which appears to […]

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The post How to get perfect Sinhala text on Android 4.4 KitKat! (and 4.2 + 4.3) + Instructions for 5.0 Lollipop Issues first appeared on Malinthe's Blog.]]> https://blog.malinthe.com/2014/04/how-to-get-perfect-sinhala-text-on-android-4-4-kitkat/feed/ 95 1065 https://blog.malinthe.com/2014/01/why-you-shouldnt-play-with-fans/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2014/01/why-you-shouldnt-play-with-fans/#comments Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:01:41 +0000 http://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1061 ජගත්ගේ පැය විසිහතර පුරාම දුවන විදුලි පංකාව දූවිලි වලින් වැහිලා කළු පාට වෙලයි තිබුණේ. ගිය සතියේ ආරක්ෂක මේසෙ උඩින් බිමට වැටුණු පාර ඒකෙ ආරක්ෂක දැල සවිවෙන ප්ලාස්ටික් කෑල්ල කැඩුණට පස්සෙ ජගත් ඒක හදාගන්න ට්‍රයි කරත් වැඩේ හරි නොගිය නිසා නිරාවරණය වෙච්ච පෙති සාමාන්‍ය වේගයකින් ජගත්ට සුළං සැපයුවා. එදත් වෙනදා වගේම උණුසුම් දවසක් වුණු නිසා ජගත් […]

The post විදුලි පංකා සමග සෙල්ලම් නොකළ යුත්තේ ඇයි? first appeared on Malinthe's Blog.]]> https://blog.malinthe.com/2014/01/why-you-shouldnt-play-with-fans/feed/ 11 1061 https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/11/the-red-face/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/11/the-red-face/#comments Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:25:26 +0000 http://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1054 උන් මගේ මූණ කපලා අයින් කළා. නළලේ ඉඳන් නිකට ගාවට.  මූණක් වෙනුවට ඉතුරු වුණේ රතුපාට රවුමක්. “වාඩිවෙයන්” උන් දීපු පුටුවක මං වාඩිවුණා. දොරක් ඇරගෙන ආපු මනුස්සයෙක් සුදු පාට කොළ තොගයක් මේසෙ උඩින් තිබ්බා. මගේ මූණ කපපු යක්ෂයා කොළ ගොඩ දිහාට අත දික්කළා. කරන්න ඕන මොකක්ද කියලා මට තේරුම්ගන්න වැඩි වෙලාවක් ගියේ නෑ. මං කොළ එකින් […]

The post රතු මූණ first appeared on Malinthe's Blog.]]> https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/11/the-red-face/feed/ 3 1054 https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/10/kneeling/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/10/kneeling/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:37:01 +0000 http://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1042 “දණගහපිය!” මං දණගැහුවෙ නෑ. ඒ හින්දා උන් මාව දණගැස්සුවා. දණගස්සපු වේගෙට මගේ දණිස් පොල්කටු එච්චරම සීතල නැති සිමෙන්ති පොළවේ වැදිලා කෑලි කෑලි වලට කුඩුවුණා. ලේ හැමතැනම. “මං එයත් එක්ක කතාකරේ නෑ අයියෙ” ප්‍රිෆෙක්ට්ස්ල කිසිම හිතක් පපුවක් නැති මහා නරුමයො.

The post දණගැස්ම first appeared on Malinthe's Blog.]]> https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/10/kneeling/feed/ 5 1042 https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/08/a-laptop/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/08/a-laptop/#comments Mon, 26 Aug 2013 06:33:26 +0000 http://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1019 I remember the first time I saw a proper laptop. It was at an IT exhibition at my school in Kandy. I walked into the main hall and the floor was filled with various tech related exhibition stalls. I walked over to one of the stalls and there they had a few laptops on display. […]

The post A Laptop first appeared on Malinthe's Blog.]]> https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/08/a-laptop/feed/ 2 1019 https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/08/dentists-and-drills/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/08/dentists-and-drills/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:10:38 +0000 http://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1013 Did you know that jewelers use dental drills for high precision drilling work? No? Okay. I just read it on Wikipedia. Why the sudden fascination with drills? Probably because I went under a dental drill last week. I wish that was that. But oh no. I have to go back. Probably twice. How fun is […]

The post Dentists and drills. first appeared on Malinthe's Blog.]]> https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/08/dentists-and-drills/feed/ 1 1013 https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/07/do-you-know-that-feeling/ https://blog.malinthe.com/2013/07/do-you-know-that-feeling/#comments Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:19:26 +0000 http://blog.malinthe.com/?p=1003 You’re 8. It’s almost midnight. You’re watching a movie on an old 14″ color TV. The movie you’re watching is not critically acclaimed. Heck, it even might be one of lowest rated movies ever. Why else would they show it on a national television channel? They never show you good movies do they? But you […]

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