OTC CatchUp #14 Summary

General introductions.

@Aniket More and @Harsh Kapadia talked about their web development experience.

We talked about Microsoft Excel becoming a programming language.

@Harsh Kapadia spammed @Kartik Soneji's WhatsApp using @Jai Kumar Dewani's script.

@Jai Kumar Dewani told us about the work that he is doing at his internship at Carl Zeiss using .NET. He might have to use Angular in the future as well. :carrot:

@Jai Kumar Dewani and @Kartik Soneji had a talk about gRPC, JSON and gzip.

@Kartik Soneji gave a short explanation on WebRTC and @Jai Kumar Dewani shared his notes on WebRTC.

@Kartik Soneji told us what robots.txt is and how some companies compromise their sensitive routes by putting the entire route in the file.

@jaden furtado told us about the cyber security issues that he had found on a company’s web site and had reported them to the company. He found quite a few flaws! Kudos!

@Kartik Soneji showcased a Unicode normalization bug (feature?) in the Java compiler. @sirus and @Dheeraj Lalwani tested the C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Dart and Rust compilers, but none of them have the same bug.

@Dheeraj Lalwani showcased a Russian Roulette script that has a 1 in 6 chance of formatting your entire system. > [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf /*

@Kartik Soneji tried the script on a Docker container, and got unlucky after 4 tries.

Explored KataCoda, a great website that provides free Playgrounds for Ubuntu, Docker, VSCode, Kubernetes and more!
https://katacoda.com/learn#playgrounds

Also tried the script on KataCoda and destroyed one of their VMs :grinning: