Hi, I’m Sameer Basil
I believe in deep work, original thinking, and bold execution.
I build software, explore life, and write to make sense of it all.
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ESP32: Sensing the World Around Me
A few years ago, during a workshop organized by SLIIT over the holidays, I got hands-on with IoT for the very first time. Up until then, my world was purely software, code running on laptops and servers. This was the first time I saw software directly interacting with the physical world. The Setup I used…
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Life is a Race
One thought came into my mind recently: life is a race, and in many ways, it will always feel like a race. It doesn’t matter how good your life is in absolute terms; if you feel like everyone else is doing better, it can make you feel like you’re losing. And when you feel like…
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Apple’s Haptic Movie Trailer: A Glimpse into the Future of Media
Apple just dropped the first-ever haptic movie trailer — and it’s absolutely wild. You don’t just watch it. You feel it. Literally. The F1 engines rumble through the phone like they’re tearing through your chest. For a brief moment, it tricks your senses into thinking you’re actually trackside. It’s immersive, visceral, and — honestly —…
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The Obsession with Microservices
Every few months, I stumble across a GitHub repo or a startup’s architecture diagram that proudly showcases ten microservices talking to each other across a Kubernetes cluster—usually orchestrated by a team of two or three developers. The frontend has a dedicated GraphQL gateway, each microservice has its own database, and there’s a message queue sitting…
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TedX Colombo 2025
Attending TEDxColombo yesterday left me genuinely moved.Each speaker brought something unique — not just ideas, but lived experiences, challenges, and raw honesty.🎬 Jason Rajasinghe spoke about the power of visualization. His story—from a Sri Lankan YouTuber to a filmmaker with a global audience—was a reminder that imagination can shape reality. The way he tied it…
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Cost of Morality
The cost of being good is that you are by definition, constrained. A person who isn’t trying to be good isn’t constrained, therefore has a better advantage. You might think of this as being really unfair. You might say that the world this world has been setup is wrong. But would you want this any…