OTC CatchUp #204 Summary

Siddharth Bhatia told us that he is organising the second Kurzgesagt Meetup Mumbai 2024 on the 19th of October, 2024! Do register and join in!

Siddharth Bhatia told us about Dev Dinner in Mumbai, India, an in-person hangout for anyone interested in Tech.

Harsh Kapadia shared

Mohit Gangwani shared

Mohit told us that he was using Laravel to build a web app to explore different technologies.

We unsuccessfully tried to figure out why Void Linux, a Linux distro built from the ground up without depending on any other distro, was required in the first place. We couldn’t find features that made a huge difference from the existing ones.

Siddharth Bhatia shared the OTC CatchUp #198 summary in podcast format using NotebookLM.

We discussed about how meetups, talks and podcasts are more about awareness of things going on in the industry rather than learning, because learning happens when we do stuff ourselves in opposition to just listening to people who’ve worked with it before.

Siddharth Bhatia told us how some companies create some products and/or features to attract users to their products, so that people can discover all the practically useful and cool features that their products have. He gave us an example of Obsidian, a note-taking application, that incorporated a graph feature that shows a network/graph of how all notes in the app are related. Siddharth said that he does not think that the feature has a lot of practical uses, but he and many others were attracted to Obsidian because of that feature and then fell in love with all the other cool features that Obsidian has to offer.

Rishit Dagli gave us some AI updates, told us about his Math courses and shared some of his experience interning with Qualqomm's AI research department.

Kaustubh Khavnekar shared his Amazon EKS ArgoCD boilerplate project, a boilerplate template which provides a quick starting point for creating an EKS cluster with ArgoCD pre-configured and other best practices.