Rahul RavindranBuilding standalone expo app locally with Turtle CLIMakefile recipe for testing changes frequently without relying on slow build times on Expo.2 min read·Dec 24, 2020----
Rahul RavindranWhy is building an app this hardThis year I thought about building my ideas and I’ve already done a post on “Drone Trails” and the motivation behind it. The part I didn’t…4 min read·Dec 5, 2020----
Rahul RavindranLessons learnt after spending 4 months building an iOS AppLessons learnt after spending 4 months building an iOS App4 min read·Sep 26, 2020----
Rahul RavindranShort Story about Drone TrailsPast few posts on my blog have been about over-engineering, side-projects and firebase. All of which came out of me wanting to build this…3 min read·Sep 1, 2020----
Rahul RavindranOverengineeringThis is a relatively well discussed topic in software development. However, I’m attempting to give it some context and resurface this…4 min read·May 23, 2020----
Rahul RavindranHosting with Linode & SSLThis story is about me migrating my personal blog from Github to self-hosting on Linode. I thought it made sense to not host this on…6 min read·Apr 27, 2020----
Rahul RavindranWhat I wish I knew about FirebaseI’ve been working on my side-project for quite some time now. If you read my earlier blog post, I mentioned how I wanted to build an iOS…5 min read·Apr 26, 2020----
Rahul RavindranA thing or two about side projectsI’ve been getting more time to focus on some side-projects now that I am working from home due to COVID-19. Around a month back, I had an…3 min read·Apr 26, 2020----
Rahul RavindranAutomating your Linode deployment with Github ActionsLinode, HTTP/HTTPS & Deployment Part 2 | /var/log/share3 min read·Mar 21, 2020----
Rahul RavindranHashMap should ship as default HashMap in JavaI have got back to writing code in Java (coming from python), and it is frustrating to see that HashMap in Java don’t have a default…1 min read·Jan 29, 2017----