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Bharat Kalluri's Notes
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Principles
The principles I aspire to live up to every day. If I'm struggling with something, this is where I go back to and use to think.
A Home Should Reduce Friction
Home's are about character and utility. A home should feel lived in, should reflect the owners taste and passions. And most importantly should reduce friction and help people do the right things, easily. This is easier said than done, homes are easily one of the places where we
Agentic engineering 101
There are a million blog posts out there talking about this. This is just the setup which has been working for me. I’ll keep it short and to the point as usual. Philosophy Before outlining steps, let’s first talk about what are the philosophies to keep
Buy It For Life — BIFL — Indian edition
BIFL stands for Buy It For Life. For someone who is into  Minimalism  & believes in  Curating life , BIFL feels like a natural progression to get into. I personally feel there is not enough literature for BIFL in India. But the traditional Indian philosophy has always been
On curating life
This is a work in progress document. Every line in this document goes through a lot of thought. Alternative title: “On conscious living” If not thought about deliberately, it’s very easy to just go along for the ride every day for hours, days and months without&
On Going from Idea to Deploy
How much time does it take for you to go from imagining a decent idea to having a functional bare bones proof of concept web app? Right now, for me it’s around two days of intermittent work. Here’s why My current stack is Next js for
Review – Tipi for self hosting
What it gets right? Install is very smooth auto HTTPs for all public domains using let’s encrypt & traefik local domains for self hosting out of the box great UI for installing and managing apps app level backups on the UI. Really big deal since not a lot
Stack
The tools I use to run my day to day life. Phone Currently I use a iPhone 16. Apps on my phone Communication & Social Media WhatsApp Telegram Instagram X (formerly Twitter) Slack Productivity & Organization Google Calendar Apple Notes TickTick Sheets Docs Drive Finance & Banking HDFC Bank DBS
Gripes with reality
Things which need fixing. Consider picking up one of these if you want to start a new project. I’m always available to talk if you want to work on one of these. Most of these piss me off so much that I’ll spend a very good
Protocols – Personal Finance
This is work in progress! Feel free to reach out to me  @bharatkalluri  for suggestions and feedback. One of the first things I think people should be taught when they start earning is managing personal finances. There are some fundamentals on how to manage personal finances. Once these
Travel Log: Vietnam
TLDR: Our trip was for 14 days, we think it should have been double of that. Vietnam offers so much to experience that 14 days does not do justice. That being said, this was an unforgettable trip. Pre travel Get your visa sorted, the application form is slightly tedious but
Log based metrics and monitoring at scale, adventures with elastic stack
Monitoring and logging in large companies is a critical aspect of system management, as it helps track the performance and health of applications. A popular practice among some organizations involves using a common data store, usually a time-series database like Elastic, to manage metrics as logs. This setup, often utilizing
I want to know where I’m spending my money. Can I?
Why? Because I want to budget so that I can spend more where I can and cut down where I have to. Simple, right? Before we start, let’s go through the lay of the land. I have one bank account (HDFC) & two credit cards (Amazon ICICI &
Building for Ourselves: The Beauty of Personal Software
Chefs come back home and cook for their family and friends. They look forward to the cooking on the weekend, the “specials” with great excitement. It is a place where there is love & gratitude. No pressure to deliver award winning recipes, just a good meal with jokes