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OTC CatchUp #17
Date: 06-03-2021
Duration: 7 hr 23 min
Topics Discussed
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General introductions.
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@Saurabh Daware explained why he archived his text-to-handwriting project.
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Static Site Generators (SSGs)
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@Harsh Kapadia explained what SSGs are and gave some examples (Gatsby, Asciidoctor, Abell.js, Hugo, Jekyll, etc.)
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@Chirag Nayyar told us that the industry uses Hugo and Jekyll a lot.
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@Kartik Soneji talked about SSGs like Asciidoctor.
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@Kartik Soneji also told us about the recent MDN Web Docs shift from Server Side Rendering (Kuma) to their own JAMstack project, Yari.
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@Harsh Kapadia told us what are DDoS attacks are.
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@Chirag Nayyar gave us some insights into his past and the mistakes he made.
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@Chirag Nayyar impressed upon us the importance of Computer Networking and the OSI Layers and @Harsh Kapadia shared his Networking notes, OSI notes and favourite Networking YouTube channels.
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We talked about how people look towards ML and Blockchain technologies.
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@Mihika Gaonkar ranted about how people feel that these technologies are easy and why everyone should not jump on the hype train.
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@Chirag Nayyar told us that soft skills such are as important as tech skills.
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Moving from speaking skill we went on discussing on the greatest hacks which were performed by social engineering attacks
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@sirus told us about how verified twitter accounts and bank accounts were hacked.
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@Chirag Nayyar and @AYUSH BHOSLE talked about S.A.P.
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@sirus gave his view about Jetpack Compose and KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform).
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@Aayush Pal talked about the role of a Developer Advocate.
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@Dheeraj Lalwani showed us a project called Quarkly, which provides readymade front end components for React.js and Gatsby.
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We talked about the importance of open communities.
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@Aayush Pal shared his story of starting out in the Tech world with projects and internships.
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We praised the Vodafone Idea Vi app design and compared it with Jio’s app.
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We talked about @Jai Kumar Dewani's Carl Zeiss internship.
Projects Showcased
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@Saurabh Daware gave a demo of his Static Site Generator Abell.js.
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@Aayush Pal showed us a demo of a project that he is building for a client.
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@Dheeraj Lalwani asked @Kartik Soneji a doubt about a Command Line Text Editor that he is building.
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