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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #107
Date: 26-11-2022
Duration: 5 hrs 17 mins
Topics Discussed
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We talked about how everyone feels about GDG MAD's tweet on Devfest Mumbai.
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Everyone had mixed feelings about it, as a marketing technique it was fabulous but sometimes it was a bit insulting.
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Siddharth Bhatia was curious to explore how he can run games in GitHub Codespaces.
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Darshan Rander asked others about how they feel using online code editor tools like GitPod, or GitHub Codespaces as he doesn’t feel natural while using them.
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Siddharth Bhatia suggested that it might be good for beginners as they don’t need to take that extra effort to setup the environment.
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Ishan Sharma uses them for projects where he might do a contribution once and might not want to setup everything for that.
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Siddharth Bhatia asked how one can run GUI apps in these online code editors.
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Ishan Sharma shared how he can use VNC to run GUI apps.
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Darshan Rander shared neverinstall, a service that allows you to run a few applications such as Android Studio, VSCode and more on the cloud with GUI on the browser.
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Ishan Sharma shared Flipper Zero.
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A pen-testing tool that can capture and transmit certain radio frequencies.
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We talked about how one can use NFC on their phone to get data from NFC-enabled cards.
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We talked about the difference between RFID and NFC.
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TLDR; NFC is a branch of High-Frequency (HF) RFID and you can have p2p communication in NFC but not in RFID.
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Wilfred Almeida asked how he can have security in UDP.
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Darshan Rander said that he can look at QUIC protocol as it is also based on UDP.
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Wilfred Almeida has already made a UDP server.
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UDP is used to share data such as game streaming and sending application logs to the server as it eliminates the need to have a TCP handshake which takes a lot of time.
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Ishan Sharma shared his talk about Web Animations from Devfest Chennai.
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He gave a quick walkthrough of the talk on catchup.
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Harsh Kapadia asked him what inspired him to go deeper into the Web Animations APIs and when one should know that they should stop.
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Ishan Sharma said he was always curious about animations on the web and this gave him a nudge to learn them. He suggested stopping when it starts to become boring for you.
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Ishan Sharma shared that he would be speaking at xtremejs.dev next month.
Attendees
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Abhishek Gaud
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Anvee Shetye
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Atharva
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Gaurav Vaishya
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Jainam Jagani
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Janhavi
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Kishan Wali
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Manas Thadhani
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Meet Morpana
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Paul Atreides
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Prathamesh Karambelkar
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Pushkar Aggrawal
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Saachi Kokate
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Somya Barwa
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Atharva Yadav
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Giridhar Ramesh
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