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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 #116
Date: 28-01-2023
Duration: 5 hrs 12 mins
Topics Discussed
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Dheeraj Lalwani shared the portfolio of Russ Cox, creator of GoLang.
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Tushar Nankanian interesting article: Our Software Dependency Problem by Russ Cox on OTC’s Telegram group.
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Dheeraj Lalwani suggested everyone to go through his blogs for learning some fundamentals.
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Siddharth Bhatia asked for resources to learn assembly so Anil Harwani suggested he learn by example.
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Anil Harwani shared these articles to get started:
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Tushar Nankani, Pranav Daniand Dheeraj Lalwani dissected the OTC’s CatchUp repository to show how everything it works.
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The site uses GitHub workflows to build and deploy the site, and ascii doctor to render the content written in Markdown.
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We went through cult.fit's design principles.
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It uses Aurora design principle for all of its websites where they divide components into atoms and molecules.
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Many companies have a blog about their design decisions which can be quite insightful.
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Tushar Nankanishared links for Raunak Shah (cult.fit's Product Designer).
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We discussed Razorpay's design decisions.
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Tushar Nankanishared his findings related to Razorpay’s design decisions in this Twitter thread.
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Razorpay uses tilt.js for their homepage.
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It had the
!important
tag used a lot in their CSS file which is considered bad practice since it might be inconvenient for other people to work with.
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Devfolio has a keyboard-friendly UI.
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The rectangle overlaps in the cards have smooth transitions which look seamless.
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Also keyboard shortcuts somehow do not intersect for browser and Devfolio's webpage.
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Tushar Nankanialso showcased Preet’s Portfolio website: pre.et, which also implements keyboard shortcuts with
CTRL + K
.
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Pranav Danishared that Heroku took down the free tier projects.
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We talked about why one should not become dependent on a single platform.
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Rishit suggested some free alternatives such as railway.app and platform.sh.
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We talked about how card payments in the US not requiring OTPs seem like a scary thing. Reference: CatchUp 114.
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We talked about how Google’s new search algorithm works.
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We discussed some of the quirks that come with using SBI bank accounts.
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Setting up two passwords for SBI’s internet banking is a pain.
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The employees working there figure out the issues and figure things out with the customer.
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Vatsal Patel shared how he maintains his credit scores.
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Saifuddin Saifee talked about the interactive game that he created for his SIH project.
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We talked about the improvements in IRCTC after it was privatized and handled by TCS.
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Pranav Danishared the blog regarding changes in the google play’s terms and conditions.
Projects Showcased
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Dheeraj Lalwani showcased Contacts, an app that he is making while learning how to use React.
Attendees
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Anil Harwani
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Atharva
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Burhanuddin Udaipurwala
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Jia Harisinghani
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Manas Thadhani
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Omkar Raval
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Piyush Makhija
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Prateek Pardeshi
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Raghav Rathi
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Suraj Kumar
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Vighnesh Hinge
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Zoya varma
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