Hi, I'm Bharat Kalluri 👋
Senior software engineer at Refyne. I write about programming, books and open source!
Writings
Why is a base 64 encoded file 33% larger than the original?
Understanding what is base64 encoding & how it works
Understanding write concerns in MongoDB
Deep diving into the ideas behind consistency in a replicated system
ASDF - One version manager to manage Javascript, Python, Rust and more!
One version manager to rule them all!
Projects
Harmony
Harmony is a command line application to sync shell history cross systems
Spotify-dl
Download music from Spotify with complete album art and metadata.
Rewinder
Travel back in time and get audio from the recent past. On demand. Runs completely locally.
Mail Sanitizer
A command line tool written in python to clear up your email & get rid of annoying subscriptions!
GTK Developer Handbook
GNOME desktop apps are great! This was my effort to write a short book explaining how to develop native GTK apps for linux
Splash
A native GNOME high res desktop wallpaper changer application, uses unsplash as a source for wallpapers.
Short Circuit
A developer scratchpad inspired by Boop(on mac). Now retired as boop has a native linux desktop client.
Albert Extensions
Albert is a quick launcher made for linux (similar to spotlight on mac). Albert did not seem to have a centralized repository of extensions, So I made it for myself!