Akash Plackal

I build fast, reliable software with a focus on real-world performance and simple tooling.

PERFORMANCE
TERMINAL
SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING
HTML-FIRST
RELIABILITY
CSS

Writing

2026-02:Request Waterfalls I Actually Trust
2026-02:Cold-Cache Checklist Before I Ship
2026-02:Static Site Caching Without Guesswork
2026-02:Minimal Keyboard Tweaks That Made a Big Impact
2026-02:Why This Site Stays HTML-First
2026-01:Neovim + Tmux for Focused Sessions
2025-12:Latency Budgets on Slow Networks

Minimal stack: one HTML response, inline CSS, optional JavaScript only.