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OTC CatchUp #44

Date: 11-09-2021

Duration: 7 hr 55 min

Topics Discussed

  • General introductions.

  • We talked on DevOps, what it is, what is the future and which tools are used for what.

  • @Rutvik J and Deepankar Bhade talked about their ongoing internship experiences at Polygon and 100ms respectively.

  • @Harsh Kapadia asked everyone about time management. Everyone talked about prioritising things and planning their weeks and months to a limit and having set goals.

  • Viranchee showcased different iOS project versions in XCode.

  • Viranchee's resources to learn iOS stuff

  • @Dheeraj Lalwani talked about Test Driven Development (TDD).

  • We talked about the [Global Execution Context] in JS.

  • @Harsh Kapadia, @Kartik Soneji, Viranchee and Deepankar Bhade talked about Design Patterns.

  • We talked about CORS and showcased it in Postman.

  • Deepankar Bhade shared a good resource for colour selection: https://www.radix-ui.com/colors

  • We had a debate on Competitive Programming (CP) vs Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) where everyone agreed that just DSA is totally fine for Development.

  • @Kartik Soneji talked and demonstrated stuff about header files in C, taking the example of the stdbool.h header file.

    • We also came to know that the functionality provided by /dev/null in Linux is provided by NUL in Windows.

  • There was a discussion on Masters in India vs abroad as well.

Projects Showcased

  • Deepankar Bhade showcased

    • The working of his Next.js blog and the customizations that he made made.

    • The 100ms documentation that he is building.

    • His CLI Blog Store in Go.

  • @Pulkit Singh showcased his Voice Based Pacman group project. (Web app, GitHub)

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