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Note OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!.
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OTC CatchUp #17

Date: 06-03-2021

Duration: 7 hr 23 min

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • @Saurabh Daware explained why he archived his text-to-handwriting project.

  • Static Site Generators (SSGs)

  • @Kartik Soneji also told us about the recent MDN Web Docs shift from Server Side Rendering (Kuma) to their own JAMstack project, Yari.

  • @Harsh Kapadia told us what are DDoS attacks are.

  • @Chirag Nayyar gave us some insights into his past and the mistakes he made.

  • @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.

  • We talked about how people look towards ML and Blockchain technologies.

    • @Mihika Gaonkar ranted about how people feel that these technologies are easy and why everyone should not jump on the hype train.

    • @Chirag Nayyar told us that soft skills such are as important as tech skills.

  • Moving from speaking skill we went on discussing on the greatest hacks which were performed by social engineering attacks

    • @sirus told us about how verified twitter accounts and bank accounts were hacked.

  • @Chirag Nayyar and @AYUSH BHOSLE talked about S.A.P.

  • @sirus gave his view about Jetpack Compose and KMM (Kotlin Multiplatform).

  • @Aayush Pal talked about the role of a Developer Advocate.

  • @Dheeraj Lalwani showed us a project called Quarkly, which provides readymade front end components for React.js and Gatsby.

  • We talked about the importance of open communities.

  • @Aayush Pal shared his story of starting out in the Tech world with projects and internships.

  • We praised the Vodafone Idea Vi app design and compared it with Jio’s app.

  • We talked about @Jai Kumar Dewani's Carl Zeiss internship.

Projects Showcased

  • @Saurabh Daware gave a demo of his Static Site Generator Abell.js.

  • @Aayush Pal showed us a demo of a project that he is building for a client.

  • @Dheeraj Lalwani asked @Kartik Soneji a doubt about a Command Line Text Editor that he is building.

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