Karthik Ragubathy - Karthik Ragubathy

Karthik Ragubathy

Billions and Billions

Billions and Billions

I still remember the time when I stumbled upon Carl Sagan's Cosmos. It was on a trip to the Andaman Islands back in my 20's. Having witnessed the wonders that inhabit our marine worlds in a few scuba-dive sessions, I was in awe about nature, life and pretty much the

Going viral on the Internet

Going viral on the Internet

It’s been a while since this happened, so I thought it would be a good idea to write about now. A few months back, I tweeted something that went viral. I was in a meeting with a couple of colleagues, when we were asked to leave our room for

My Live Coding Setup on Twitch

My Live Coding Setup on Twitch

It’s been close to 6 months since I started streaming my coding adventures on Twitch. I thought this would be a good time to sit down and write about my experience streaming on Twitch and what I have learned so far. Numbers First things first, here’s how my

The Fibonacci Sequence

The Fibonacci Sequence

Of late, I’ve been trying to get to the base of how algorithms and mathematics works in general. I’ve wanted to do this for a while because I have an inane fear of Mathematics, and I wanted to face it. This was also an effort to deep dive

Advice for Students

Advice for Students

At my job, I sometimes get the chance to meet budding student developers. After the workshops, their questions usually revolve around a career in tech and getting started in the industry. I thought it would be a good idea to list down what has worked for me, so I can

My Journey into the Voice First World

My Journey into the Voice First World

Every now and then, I get questions about opportunities in the Voice First space, and if they can make a career out of it. I thought it would be a good idea to detail my journey so far into the voice first world and the opportunities I came across, to

My Experience - AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Exam

My Experience - AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder Exam

If there’s something that brings me back memories of the good-old college days, it is definitely not the exams. From my school days, I do not have a good record of performing well in the exams and that record has extended all the way until the last exam I

Easier Webhook Testing with ngrok

Easier Webhook Testing with ngrok

Picture this scenario : You have built a web app that has webhooks from other service. But everytime you want to test it out, you have to deploy your app, and keep a look out on your logs as the request trickles in. or You are working with a mobile developer

When CURL fails

When CURL fails

Every once in a while, as a programmer, you seemingly come upon a problem that flummoxes you, irritates you and takes you through a wide array of emotions - and in the end when you solve it, makes you look back and think, why did this issue even take so

REGEXP with MySQL

REGEXP with MySQL

In one of the recent projects that I have been working on, I had to look for a word in a phrase - but the challenge was to rank an occurrence of the phrase higher when it’s an individual word as compared to when it was part of a

Deploying with DeployBot

Deploying with DeployBot

I vividly remember the first time, I messed up a production server. It was my early days of being a programmer, and we had got our first client. Back then, my deployment strategy was basically to upload files using FTP and then run any commands on the server via the

Autosaving in XCode

Autosaving in XCode

While working on a Swift Project, I spent ~ 3-5 hours adjusting a few pop-ups and fine tuning design for a screen. As it so happens, while working in the zone, I missed any committing and committed the code after my entire sprint. Now, the other day, I was helping out