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Reflection (2022)

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! Four years ago I started doing yearly reflections as an…

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Reflection (2022)
Reflection (2022)
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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 experiment and…

Resolutions

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Reflection (2021)
Reflection (2021)
Resolutions

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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)
Resolutions

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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)
Resolutions

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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
User Experience

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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. …

Life Update

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Ratik (2019 edition)
Ratik (2019 edition)
Life Update

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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. …

Cron

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

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Feb 12, 2017

Creating and Launching a product as a self-taught Developer

On the 29th of September, 2016, I launched a product I had been working on for over six months: Uttam. Uttam is an Android app that gently refreshes your home screen each day with perfectly crafted wallpapers. Here’s how I built and launched my most ambitious project till date. As…

Design

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Creating and Launching a product as a self-taught Developer
Creating and Launching a product as a self-taught Developer
Design

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Dec 8, 2016

The People at PyCon India 2016

This past September, I went to my first ever developer conference: PyCon India. It was an amazing experience. I came across so many amazing people doing amazing things. Here’s a list of five such people. 1. Baishampayan Ghose (BG) BG was one of the three keynote speakers at PyCon. His keynote was titled ‘The…

Pycon

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The People at PyCon India 2016
The People at PyCon India 2016
Pycon

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