Before the sea had charts, it had a keeper.
In the oldest Vedic hymns, Varuna is lord of the waters, robed in the splendor of lapis lazuli, and keeper of ṛta — the cosmic order. Nothing moves on his ocean unrecorded: the scriptures say he knows every blink of every eye, and the stars are his thousand spies keeping watch through the night.
Diskhoji — khoji, खोजी, the seeker — sails in that tradition, across seas of data instead of water.
- ◯The pasha. Varuna's rope binds all things to account. Ours binds every byte it can read on the one filesystem it charts; what your user cannot open, it tallies apart as unreadable rather than feign to hold.
- ✦The thousand eyes. His star-spies keep the watch — the heatmap gives up to two thousand files an equal cell each, so the small-but-many stay in sight instead of vanishing into slivers; when a folder brims past that, the largest keep their light and the rest are counted but unlit.
- ᨏThe Makara. The tide-beast he rides carves our prow: fast, at home in deep water, stranger to no sea.
- ◐Guardian of the West. He keeps the dusk horizon — the quiet hour when you finally clean your disk.
Inspired by the classics. Copied from none. The great treemap analyzers of the 2000s taught everyone what a disk looks like — then stayed in harbor: one OS, one thread, one view. Diskhoji is a ground-up rebuild of the idea in Rust — multi-core, three charts, one small native binary, and at home on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
