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Reflection (2021)

Hello, hello friends, family, colleagues, and whosoever else decided to click on a blog post titled “Reflection” by a random dude on the Internet. Welcome all! I’m Ratik—a software engineer at Fueled by day, and artist-person-type-thing by night! Three years ago I started doing yearly reflections as an…

Resolutions

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Reflection (2021)
Reflection (2021)

Dec 31, 2020

Reflection (2020)

We’re gonna try avoiding the “C” , “P” and “L” words in this, okay? Okay. What can I say about 2020 that hasn’t already been said before? An unprecedented (ugh) year, a year like no other, a year where the word “normal” lost its meaning entirely. Sitting here writing my…

Resolutions

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Reflection (2020)
Reflection (2020)

Aug 31, 2020

Why Fueled?

I’ve officially taken the next step in my career. I’ll soon be working at Fueled as an Android Engineer! I’m so excited for this next chapter and wanted to write a quick post talking about my thought process behind this change. My hope is to provide a little look into…

Life Update

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Why Fueled?
Why Fueled?

Aug 30, 2020

My time at Meraki

31st July, 2020 was my last day at Meraki. My first job, first team. My first product(s) launched, first crashes in production. And most importantly, my first lives impacted. The word bittersweet keeps coming to my mind while thinking of the current transitional period I’m in. Bitter because it is…

Life Update

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My time at Meraki
My time at Meraki

Jul 7, 2020

Side effects in Programming

A few years ago, I was showing code I’d written to a friend in order to get feedback and one of the things he pointed out to me was that a function I’d written had side effects. This was the first time I’d heard this term. After the call with…

Programming

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Side effects in Programming
Side effects in Programming

May 25, 2020

The Essence of Functional Programming

Functional Programming (FP) is often described using a lot of jargon. A lot of fluff and no substance. I struggled with understanding FP for quite some time because of this. Even after understanding the concepts and principles involved in FP, I never really knew what FP was. What is the…

Functional Programming

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The Essence of Functional Programming
The Essence of Functional Programming

Dec 31, 2019

Reflection (2019)

Disclaimer: We are all on different journeys and progress looks different for everyone. No Gregorian calendar can determine your self worth. I’ve never been a new year resolutions kinda guy. I’ve always believed that you don’t have to wait for a certain day of the year to make a change…

Resolutions

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Reflection (2019)
Reflection (2019)

Sep 5, 2019

Good UX over Aesthetics

Google’s Android 10 dropped recently and I’ve been using it for the last two days on my primary phone. One of the features I was excited about with this release was the updated gesture navigation. I had my fingers crossed for Google to finally get this right. So, did they…

User Experience

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Good UX over Aesthetics
Good UX over Aesthetics

Aug 7, 2019

Ratik (2019 edition)

My name is Ratik and I am Software Developer working at the intersection of design, technology and social impact. I’ve been a creative individual interested in technology for as far as I can remember. In fact, the reason I taught myself how to write code was to build out ideas…

Life Update

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Ratik (2019 edition)
Ratik (2019 edition)

Published in Better Programming

·Jan 12, 2018

Scheduling Jobs With Crontab on macOS

Running scripts on your computer is great. Running them automatically is even better — Automatic running can be achieved on macOS (and Linux) by creating cron jobs! Let’s make an example job. Suppose you want to run a script called work.sh which does some work for you — doesn’t really matter what the work is. You want to do this “work” every fifteenth minute…

Cron

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Scheduling Jobs With Crontab on macOS
Scheduling Jobs With Crontab on macOS
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