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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #244
Date: 12-07-2025
Duration: 3 hrs 58 mins
Topics Discussed
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Jaden shared his experience at sea as a cybersecurity researcher
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Shared his concerns about how ships can be directly connected to the internet with limited to no security
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Spoke about how proper protocols for handling credentials are often absent at ship
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The lack of safety precautions that are present while climbing onto the ship
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Shared photos of his overall journey
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Dheeraj mentioned about his unique experience about giving a 3 hour engaging talk about Git and GitHub to professors of Mumbai University
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Dheeraj shared about his experience with learning AWS straight from its documentation
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Alpesh shared an agentic AI browser based on deep search and automation
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Ankush Kapoor shared that he is reading a book named "Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces" to understand OS design.
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Bhavesh Kukreja spoke about migrating the application he had previously spoken about in the last catchup from Flask to Django because managing the complexity of the app he was working on was getting harder over time
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Ankush Kapoor shared his journey from trying to be a part of the army to getting into BTech.
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Mohit Shetty mentioned about a tool he uses as an alternative to Docker on Mac
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A general discussion on how Docker is implemented in different platforms took place
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Chirag Nayyar shared how he has been working disaster recovery for traditional databases systems
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Mohammed Kaif shared how Swift is being used by Scade, a cross-platform framework
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Rishit Dagli shared about different benchmark metrics for large language models
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Swapnil Borkar discussed about certain aspects about Material You Expressive edition
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Mentioned how using shapes to indicate states was a bad idea
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Discussed how Material You Expressive theme was implemented on Google with inverted colors for button toggles
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