-- Danish Prakash

I attended Open Source Summit India 2026 last week in Mumbai.

It’s been a little over seven years since I first started my full time job.

In a previous article, we built a container image from scratch to understand the OCI image format.

Background I’ve tracked my command line history in a MariaDB instance for the past 5 years.

Fifth anniversary of the Year in Review series, and I’m happy I stuck with it for so long.

Background It’s been roughly 5 years since I started capturing my shell history in a MariaDB (MySQL originally).

I bought a mechanical keyboard when I first started working remotely back in 2021.

I had the most amazing opportunity to attend a friend’s wedding in Kazakhstan in June of 2025.

Came across this challenge recently and thought it’d be fun to start this chain in my network, so here goes.

This is a post-dated post about my experience travelling across Nepal in the summer of 2022.

It’s been roughly two weeks since I actually started the draft for this article.

There’s also a talk based on this article if you prefer video based content.

Lately, everybody and their mothers (literally) are fond of this new byte-size content consumption format commonly referred to as shortform content.

3rd iteration in the series calls for some changes, namely, the category headers are changing but the content remains the same more or less.

We live in an age where we have a lot more choices for virtually every single thing.

Just some random thoughts about some of the design decisions behind this blog.

Second coming of the yearly review.

Last September, I, along with a friend of mine planned for a trip to Vietnam.

Background Sometime last year while browsing Spotify Wrapped, Strava Year in Review and other yearly reports from different applications, I thought about doing something similar with my command line usage.

Yet another post on the internet about how to write Dockerfiles, for the umpteenth time.

First of its kind travelogue, I had thought about doing this for a while especially after being inactive on Instagram and other digital media sometime last year, but also to significantly improve my writing, both in terms of quantity and quality.

Like everyone else who’s even remotely aware of the harmful effects of social media addiction, I wanted to cut down on, not just social media, but all unwanted digital noise in general.

Background There are certain deployments which, upon deploying for the first time, pull resources externally and may take a considerable amount of time before they are up and running or before they start responding successfully to probes(If you have them…

I recently came across a rather interesting issue concerning resource limits and how they are implemented in Kubernetes.

Been planning to do this for a while but never got around to doing it.

Not your usual end-of-year retrospect but I thought I’ll jot down some of the thoughts I’ve had on my mind lately anyways.

If you’ve deployed your application on k8s and if you rely on the core dump your application generates, then I’m sure you’ll scoff if it so happens that your core dump is not accessible all of a sudden. core_pattern A core_pattern by the way is a pattern…

We’ve been using runc at work in production for a while now and although it seemed somewhat obscure at first, we’ve come around to being used to it so much so that it seems more intuitive than docker.

UPDATE: This post has been updated with some really good suggestions from people over at r/vim.

Last month I had the privilege and opportunity to travel to Japan for a conference.

VimConf is an international conference, perhaps the only one, pertaining to all things Vim.

Upon receiving suggestions from readers via Email, Hacker News and Reddit, I’ve updated the article with improvements and fixes.

The other day, a friend of mine asked me for a list of Indian states and their capitals in JSON format.

One of the first post I wrote here, Write a shell in C, described how to write a functional shell for *nix based systems.

Localization is a big deal especially when your application is being used by a lot of people from different parts of the world.

So, you’ve been working on this project of yours, you are on the master branch and at some point in time, for some reason, you decided to go back to a commit.

How often do you find yourself bashing .. at the prompt in hopes of getting to the correct directory?

I was confronted with a problem when I was writing the documentation of a command-line application I recently wrote, goodreadsh.

Recently the thought of having the current branch indicated on my zsh prompt hit me, when I looked up for solutions, I was greeted with the idea of installing one of the frameworks for zsh which obviously was not my cup of tea.

Head to the discussion over at Hacker News, there’s quite a lot of good advice there.

When I started out with vim over an year ago, I made sure not to mess with plugins because installing plugins seemed like such an arcane task that only a handfull of people over at r/vim knew.

Ever wondered how that terminal just works?