Ratik's Writing

I’ve been thinking a lot about the joy of finiteness.

AI-Assisted programming has added certain words and phrases to my technical vocabulary.

Marcin Wichary: Five moments in snapping history In Figma, building atop regular snapping, we introduced something I awkwardly called “self-snapping”: if your objects are inside a container, the container will snap its padding to whatever it sees on the o…

Craig Mod: Software Bonkers It’s strange times.

2026 is upon us. 2025 will soon be over.

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Life update: I joined Kagi as a Flutter engineer last month!

June was my last month at Fueled.

2024 is finished, and I'm very late to publishing my yearly reflection piece.

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What a solid, well-rounded week.

Life happened and I missed writing these for the past six weeks.

I discovered the rabbit hole of collecting vinyl this week.

My bestie Harjas was staying over last week.

After a busy last week, I started this week off by spending a day doing absolutely zero work.

Busy, busy, busy week.

I first learned about weeknotes in 2018.

It was my birthday a few weeks ago.

Over the last four years, I've been able to build a tradition of doing yearly reflections.

Everyone around me is making lists of their default apps.

Hello, hello friends, family, colleagues, and whosoever else decided to click on a blog post titled “Reflection” by a random dude on the Internet.

Hello, hello friends, family, colleagues, and whosoever else decided to click on a blog post titled "Reflection" by a random dude on the Internet.

We're gonna try avoiding the "C" , "P" and "L" words in this, okay?

I've officially taken the next step in my career.

31st July, 2020 was my last day at Meraki.

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.

Functional Programming (FP) is often described using a lot of jargon.

Disclaimer: We are all on different journeys and progress looks different for everyone.

Google's Android 10 dropped recently and I've been using it for the last two days on my primary phone.

My name is Ratik and I am Software Developer working at the intersection of design, technology and social impact.

Automatic running can be achieved on macOS (and Linux) by creating cron jobs!

On the 29th of September, 2016, I launched a product I had been working on for over six months: Uttam.

This past September, I went to my first ever developer conference: PyCon India.