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An archive of experiences, ideas and thoughts!

  • Grand Teton Yellowstone

    Travel  ·   ·  1 min read.

    Rocky Mountains has somewhat become an annual pilgrimage for us now. We have been witnessing the same mountain range for the last three years. It started with visiting Glacier National Park (NP) in Montana in 2021. Then it was Rocky Mountain NP in Colorado in 2022. After that it was Banff & Jasper NP up in Canada. In 2024, we...

  • Colorado Autumn Trip

    Travel  ·   ·  1 min read.

    In the autumn of 2022, me and my wife visited the state of Colorado (CO) and it was breathtaking to say the least. The thing that kept coming up during the planning was the altitude. Knowing that Denver is perched at a cool 5,279ft wowed me given I have spent more than 90% of my life at sea-level. The fact...

  • Software Engineer Interview Guide

    Tech  ·   ·  1 min read.

    Love it or hate it, anyone looking for a gig as a Software Engineer has to go through the grueling Tech interview loop before landing that lucrative offer. As of writing this in late 2022, many have complained about the way tech interviews are conducted without offering a working alternative. So here is me documenting my experience while going through...

  • Using APScheduler for cron jobs on Heroku

    Tech  ·   ·  1 min read.

    Python has been the go-to language for many developers playing around with data for some time now. In case of pet projects, the data often resides in a remote location accessed through REST API. Or the data needs to be updated periodically. Or the data simply needs computation every time it arrives. For such repetitive tasks, APScheduler is a...