Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Ilango Rajagopal
- @ilango
- Developer | Writer | Indiehacker
- Bangalore, India
- He/Him
Resume
Nov 2015 - Dec 2020
Senior Software Engineer, Rocketium.com
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Junior Frontend Developer, Infratab
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Published my first Rust project to creates.io
Breakable Toys #2: Don't build to-do apps is out now https://open.substack.com/pub/ilango/p/dont-build-to-do-apps?r=172jg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The first issue of my new newsletter, Breakable Toys, just went out. In it, I talk about building side projects, learning, and self-improvement. If it sounds interesting, do give it a read and subs...
Introducing Catalyst UI
#100DaysOfCode
Today's lessons were Methods and Runes. Pretty simple exercises but took me a bit of time to figure out a few issues, especially in runes. *SPOILERS* Runes: https://exercism.org/tracks/go/exercises...
I haven't done anything with pointers since my C++ days and that was years back. Anyways, today's Golang lesson was Pointers. The exercise was to build a simplified digital vote counting system for...
Going through the Go track syllabus on exercism.org. Today's lessons were Range Iteration and Type Definitions. Both have a common exercise, which was to generate a simple chessboard and do small c...
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Weekly Update #5 Hello everyone! I sort of didn't stick to the tasks list I set last week. Most of what I did was actually prep work, learning things I didn't know in SEO and content marketing. It ...
I spent about 30 minutes optimizing Herald website. It's a Next.js site so there were some built-in performance stuff in there but I'd made some mistakes as well. I also learned some new stuff from...
Weekly Update #4 Hello everyone! I hope you're having a fantastic weekend. This was a pretty good week. I finished all the tasks I set out to do and did some more work. Here's my weekly progress up...
Hello everyone! I hope you're having a productive Monday. Here's my weekly progress update for https://useherald.com: 🥅 Goals for the past week: • Update the home page with better copy • Add signup...
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The biggest thing to happen on the internet last week the Facebook outage. So I wrote about the technical details of outage along with a few other articles and tweets I liked: https://fullstackfrid...
The start of Hacktoberfest was on a Friday, so I wrote a newsletter issue that's all about open source: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/fullstackfriday/issues/fullstack-friday-4-all-about-open-sour...
Third issue of Fullstack Friday is out! http://fullstackfriday.ilango.xyz/issues/fullstack-friday-3-the-roadmap-to-building-for-web3-the-future-of-the-internet-769528
Sent out the second issue of Fullstack Friday yesterday. https://www.getrevue.co/profile/fullstackfriday/issues/fullstack-friday-2-redux-is-not-dead-and-more-relevant-than-ever-today-759401
Blog Posts
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How I set up my Linux terminal to increase productivity. https://ilango.xyz/setting-up-a-terminal-you-will-love-to-use/
Here's my tech stack for building web applications in 2022 https://ilango.xyz/my-tech-stack-has-changed-for-2022/
I wrote about what I technologies and languages I want to learn in 2022. What's on your learning list for this year? https://ilango.xyz/technologies-i-want-to-learn-in-2022/
Rust Ownership Model is a unique concept for managing memory but it's a hard concept to grok. In this article I attempt to explain the rules of ownership and how memory is managed in Rust programs....