Life is Vanilla

Travel, code and stories by Vipul Gupta.

Let's Goto·30 Oct 2026

Let's Goto: Sri Lanka for 24 Days, dive, surf, live.

I went for two weeks and came back after three and a half. Hiriketiya ate my itinerary.

Let's Goto·4 Aug 2026

One of my best weeks of 2024 spent frolicking around Tokyo.

In The Open·10 Sep 2025

An impactful week in Hyderabad, sharing insights from conferences, networking, and personal growth experiences.

In The Open·11 Jul 2025

GitTogether Delhi-NCR completes a year long journey of meetups, collaboration and learning. Here's what we have been upto!

Code-mix·6 Jan 2025

I took BlueDot Impact's 5 day Intro to Transformative AI course as a product owner in IoT and open source. What it covers and my AI safety takeaways.

Code-mix·25 Jan 2024

Moving to the dark side after 6 years of freedom, RIP Glados.

Let's Goto·9 Jun 2026

Writing about the month I spent in Spain working remotely, eating tapas, and getting immersed in the beauty of Andalusian countryside.

In The Open·2 Sep 2025

An initiative to forge a new generation of organizers, maintainers and builders for the community to support the Indian open-source movement.

Let's Goto·1 Jul 2025

The one stop guide from a veteran solo traveler which makes finding your perfect hostels straightforward and cheap.

Let's Goto·25 Dec 2024

For the competitive sport that is the Schengen visa applications.

Macro Mind·5 Mar 2026

Solving hard problems at Command Code. What's next for Vipul Gupta.

Code-mix·15 Jan 2026

How I spent way too long debugging Terminal-Bench 2.0 so you don't have to.

Code-mix·19 Aug 2025

Coping with Go's Type Assertions drama in static vs runtime scenarios. Read along so you don't have to waste an hour of your life.

Mixtapes·18 May 2025

How I moved Mixster from mixstersite.wordpress.com to a self-hosted WordPress on Hostinger at mixster.dev after seven years: export, import, fixes.

Let's Goto·30 Sep 2024

A solo week in Hong Kong: riding out a Stage 3 typhoon, Mong Kok, Lantau Island, skyline views, Disneyland and what it all cost me.