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OTC CatchUp #225

Date: 01-03-2025

Duration: 5 hrs 23 mins

Topics Discussed

  • General Introductions.

  • Siddharth Bhatia shared his experience of attending the Mumbai tech week.

  • While Siddharth Bhatia was showcasing his effects, Harsh talked about how Kartik Soneji suggested him to use Asciidoctor-Jet for the catchUp website.

    • Kartik Soneji talked about why he likes CMD autocompletion over bash.

  • Aniket Kadam presented his idea for a glowing band (Could be used with something like a water bottle) that lights up to remind users to hydrate, with a special focus on neurodivergent individuals.

    • He explained his plan to integrate an accelerometer to detect when the bottle is picked up, subsequently triggering a light after a set period.

    • Aniket Kadam and Kartik Soneji talked a bit about target audience and business strategy.

  • Harsh shared following links:

  • Abhinav Singh and Kartik Soneji talked about laptop camera, physical shutters and software switches to avoid privacy concerns.

  • Rishit Dagli and Viranchee L talked about DeepSeek’s Parallel training.

  • We talked about user experience on iOS and android and how they go an extra mile to ensure usability. Rishit Dagli asked how would one quantitatively determine a good user experience, other than the statistical ways of standard tests.

  • Rishit Dagli shared his side project about reasoning forcasting, where you think that entire world is predictable.

  • Kartik Soneji and Aniket Kadam noted some companies' poor security practices.

    • These issues are often ignored to avoid disrupting other features.

  • Ramyak discussed the ICE protocol and the function of STUN and TURN servers in establishing connections via the WebRTC.

    • He explained that ICE is used to establish peer-to-peer connections, while also noting some undocumented limitations.

    • Additionally, he described his work with the Iroh protocol to build a peer to peer file sharing that synchronizes shared folders across multiple devices.

    • He shared a YouTube channel where he learnt about distributed systems called n0omputer.

  • We talked about AMD’s new GPUs RX 9000 series and how they are expected to compete with Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series.

  • Darshan shared his blog on How I wrote my language.

Projects Showcased

  • Siddharth Bhatia shared his implementation of different terminal effects on Windows for CMD.

  • Shubham Yadav showcased a job portal project that he built during his internship.

    • The backend was written in Node.js.

Attendees

  1. Alpesh Bhagwatkar

  2. Aniket Kadam

  3. Bhavesh Kukreja

  4. Darshan Rander

  5. Dheeraj Lalwani (Dhiru)

  6. Harsh Kapadia

  7. Jia Harisinghani

  8. Kartik Soneji

  9. Mohit Gangwani

  10. Pranav Dani

  11. Ramyak Mehra

  12. Rishit Dagli

  13. Sahil Prasad

  14. Siddharth Bhatia

  15. Viranchee L

  16. jaden furtado

  17. Abhinav Singh

  18. LUEE KASAUDHAN

  19. Ram Naik

  20. Sahil Bansal

  21. Shubham Yadav

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