Reflections

When 280 characters just isnt enough.

  • Home

Safely making breaking changes on a Github repo

Recently we were working on migrating our backend repo to use go modules. Now given the size of our repo this was a huge change that involved changing almost every .go file in

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
1 min read
javascript

The curious case of the broken credit card form

One morning we learnt from our QA team that our credit card form didn't work on IE. took a bit of digging and after some confusing error messages we finally figured out what broke us.

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
3 min read

Google OnHub - What it is missing

A colleague ordered the OnHub and I got a chance to mess around with it. I was disappointed. What I expected was a device that makes WiFi very simple, and yet has power

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
2 min read

Making the stream navigable - What Facebook should do next

I recently enabled cross posting of my tweets to my Facebook profile. This was pretty awesome for the most part, reach two sets of my audiences with one post. Less work and a

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
1 min read

The Belkin Incident - How one system broke the Internet for a lot of folks

My dad had internet issues this morning. I was in the process of blaming our ISP back at home in India, and then I noticed a Twitter trend of Belkin routers causing an

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
1 min read
Badam Barfi

Badam Barfi (My mom's style)

Being completely bored and I decided to give Badam Barfi a second shot. My mom is a pro at this and my brothers and I would constantly be walking into the kitchen to

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
4 min read
google

Google Io 2013 Registration Dates Opening

Hunting around for tickets to Google IO 2013 is something I’ve been hooked on to for the past few days. Funnily enough none of the major sites like Gizmodo or Tech-crunch have

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
1 min read
eos

Mapping NCSU AFS to your personal Laptop

Yeah I know expandrive is easier to use…. install, enter credentials, and you are done. But lets face it, expandrive isnt the fastest and most stable stable thing you’ve used. try to

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
2 min read
hello-world

I'm Alive.. yet Again

I’ve started blogging many-a-times before….Each time with a sudden burst of interest I started a new blog vowing to myself to be better than last time and not let it die.

  • Roopak Venkatakrishnan
    Roopak Venkatakrishnan
1 min read
Reflections © 2019
Latest Posts Facebook Twitter Ghost