Minimum Release Age is an Underrated Supply Chain Defense
A 7-day package delay would have blocked installs in most short-lived malicious publish attacks from the last 8 years
Dani Akash’s Blog
Where my thoughts get some air time (and occasionally make sense).
Latest posts
When The Bill Comes Due
A realistic look at what happens when AI coding subsidies end, and why the falling cost curve means it'll be okay
Wrapping up 2024
🌐 Explore the future of tech, science, and sustainability—one insight-packed issue at a time!
The Developer Edition
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Swimming Robots in Space
🌐 Explore the future of tech, science, and sustainability—one insight-packed issue at a time!
AI needs water — a lot!
🌐 Explore the future of tech, science, and sustainability—one insight-packed issue at a time!
$1 Trillion Dollar Goal
🌐 Explore the future of tech, science, and sustainability—one insight-packed issue at a time!
Splitting Atoms for Smarter AI
🌐 Explore the future of tech, science, and sustainability—one insight-packed issue at a time!
Europa Clipper Sails Toward Europa
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Less on the Client, more on the Edge
Sharing my retrospective on building a complex web application as an Engineering Manager
The race to better batteries!
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The Vaccines are here!
🌐 Explore the future of tech, science, and sustainability—one insight-packed issue at a time!
Mars rover got a microphone
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Maintaining a React Native Library
Sharing my experience maintaining 10 different react native libraries
Rex State - a handy utility to convert your hooks into shared states
Version 1.0 launched
A better Image component for React Native
Introducing a better image component for React Native with fallback & progressive loading
Drawing Triangles in React Native
React Native library to draw triangles with fine control over all aspects of the triangle view
I recreated React's class component lifecycle methods with hooks
Was feeling a bit evil
UX friendly loading indicators
A better way to display loading indicators based on network speeds
React Native Responsive Dimensions updated to 3.1.0
Tool to deal with those foldable devices
Introducing Rex State 🦖
A simple way to manage your React States
The 10 things I learnt (or) tried learning in 2019
Before I started working on some of the important tasks I have planned for the new decade, I decided to take a couple of days to reflect on all my past learnings and the experience I have gained from them. Trust me, I'm so glad I did it...
The Periodic Table & The Stars
Appreciating the creation of every element known to man
What are we?
Understanding the toughest question ever known to man.
The first image of the black hole is cool but what else haven’t we seen yet?
The night sky has more secrets that are yet to be seen by mankind
What is prototype pollution and why is it such a big deal?
It has been gaining a lot of traction recently but turns out it's been actually there since the dawn of Javascript