OTC CatchUp #169 Summary

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Kartik Soneji talked about The 2024 MITRE Engenuity Embedded Capture the Flag Competition. He showed us his preliminary design to show us how people think while designing solutions that others will try to exploit.

Arryaan Jain talked about comparing audio codecs, earphone and headphone quality, and his disappointment with the lack of Dynamic Equalizers in mobile phones in the current market.

Mobile processors

Abhigyan Bafna shared his Artificial Intelligence and Data Science WhatsApp group where interesting discussions on AI take place.

We talked about htmx, a library that allows one to use HTML attributes to trigger requests and swap HTML responses in the DOM.

We talked about HTTP/3 and QUIC, and discussed how QUIC, which is based on UDP, still has reliability and streams built into it.

Kartik Soneji helped debug a Chrome Extension visibility issue that Kedar Karbele was facing. It turned out to be a CSS z-index issue.

Harsh Kapadia shared a few resources for System Design.

Kartik Soneji shared an extremely important lesson with us: Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking

Saifuddin Saifee asked if it matters whether one uses DDR4 or DDR5 memory for normal development use cases and the general consensus was that it doesn’t matter.

Abhigyan Bafna showcased Apna Ghar, a project management system which aims to reduce friction between interior designers, customers and contractors. The app revolves around the interior designer and provides a Kanban task manager with integrated customer feedback, 3D display of the status of the project and AI generated rooms.