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OTC CatchUp #266

Authors: Ayush More · Ankush Kapoor

Date: 13-12-2025

Duration: 2 hrs 15 mins

Topics Discussed

  • Nirmal Panchal shared his ongoing research on CPU architecture (GPPCU).

    • He discussed his ideas and insights on executing traditionally serial tasks in parallel at the hardware level.

  • Hritik Jaiswal shared his experience using GitHub Copilot for troubleshooting.

    • He encountered an issue where a button was removed unconditionally.

    • Copilot suggested using commands like git stash and git log via the Git MCP server to resolve it.

  • Chetan, Hritik, and Bhavesh discussed the job market and hiring processes.

    • Chetan asked about the AMCAT exam and if it helps with hiring.

    • Hritik shared his journey from college to landing a job, advising the use of platforms like Glassdoor and Indeed.

    • Bhavesh suggested cold emailing strategies, noting that he secured his current internship through this method.

  • Wahid Khan and the group discussed developer tools.

    • Wahid mentioned Trae, an IDE similar to Cursor but with a different feel.

  • Hritik Jaiswal discussed technical concepts found in a blog post about GitHub Cline.

    • He explained database caching layers, how read and write operations work, and why Merkle Trees are used.

    • Understanding Merkle Trees

  • The group discussed the value of Tech Meetups.

    • They explored why people attend such events and talked about various niche communities, including CNCF Thane, AWS User Group, BreachForce, and FOSS.

  • Hritik explained how to setup a bare metal cloud on Ubuntu.

  • Ayush Shukla gave a short introduction to NixOS.

    • He demonstrated his setup and explained how Nix works, including concepts like Valgrind and Flakes.

    • He also touched upon Nix packages and shared the WTFPL license link.

    • WTFPL License

Attendees

  1. CHETAN JANGIR

  2. Darshan Rander

  3. Harsh Khatri

  4. Hritik Jaiswal

  5. Ankush Kapoor

  6. Bhavesh Kukreja

  7. Aezyus

  8. Antariksh Pratham

  9. Ayush More

  10. Ayush Shukla

  11. Chirag Nayyar

  12. Harshit Malang

  13. Rehan S.

  14. Shubhranil Paul

  15. LUEE KASAUDHAN

  16. Wahid Khan

Meet Screenshot

Meet #266 screenshot
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