Hello.
Ashish
Vaghela
I'm a software engineer who contributes to open source, speaks at meetups, and writes about code and about life. This site is where all of it lives.
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From the workbench
Technical posts on Java, tooling, testing, and the things I break along the way.
- Astro 7 renders your display maths as a code block, and won't tell youAstro 7 ships Sätteri, a Markdown and MDX engine written in Rust. It is genuinely fast. The Astro...
- Getting a Free Oracle Cloud VPS from India: The Full Guide (and the RuPay Wall Nobody Warns You About)Hey Folks! So you want a real server. One that runs 24/7, hosts your side projects, survives reboots,...
- Dot files two years later...Two years ago I wrote a post called Dotfiles: The Developer Secret to the Perfect Setup. It had...
- I Went to Open Source Summit India and My Brain Is Still ProcessingMumbai, June 16-17, 2026. Two days. More talks than I could attend. More ideas than I could hold. I...
From the notebook
Personal essays. Slower, and mostly not about software.
- What Is the Highest Achievement?I don't know the answer. Nobody does, that's the honest starting point.
- The Art of Sitting StillA couple of hours at Marine Drive, no phone, no music, no plan, and what that silence actually felt like.
- Finding Joy in the Little MomentsA personal reflection on appreciating the small victories and everyday moments that make life meaningful.
More from me
- Open source
- My own projects, the ones I'm a core contributor to, and well-known projects I've contributed to, like MDN and Zod.
- Speaking
- Latest: Jugaad VS JFR: What your open source libraries are really costing you, at Java User Group Gujarat Meetup.
- Projects
- Things I've built on my own time.
- Now
- What I'm learning and working on this month.