OTC CatchUp #54 Summary

General introductions.

Harsh Kapadia asked for blog template suggestions.

Sreekaran Srinath suggested moving away from Disqus for handling comments under a blog and using Commento. Harsh Kapadia suggested using GitHub Issues as a blog’s comment section.

Sreekaran Srinath asked why Harsh Kapadia was not using Hashnode’s blog service for his blog and Harsh and Omkar Khair talked about owning one’s content and being able to experiment with it. Omkar also shared a good article on this.

Omkar Khair shared a blog that is run on a computer that is powered by solar energy. (The blog)

Harsh Kapadia talked about how Cloudflare launched a full stack service using which users can build and deploy full stack web apps using Cloudflare Pages. (Cloudflare’s blog on going full stack.)

Omkar Khair explained how DNS Amplification DDoS attacks don’t affect Cloudflare as much. (Cloudflare’s blog on it.)

There was a discussion about Apple starting Self Service Repair. (More on it.)

Omkar Khair explained how huge organisations take a lot of time to implement ideas and the numerous steps involved in getting something in production.

A paper on Bypassing XSS Detection Mechanisms was shared.

Krishna Gadia talked about his work at Gupshup involving the implementation of Change Data Capture (CDC) and cross-joining of data from different sources in an Apache Kafka topic.

We also talked about PCB design, Blinky circuit and EDA tools.

Jay Kaku asked which FPGA should a beginner buy and Omkar Khair suggested buying the cheapest one, as there are high chances of it getting burnt while experimenting with it.

There was a discussion about Stadia aiming to achieve 'Negative Latency' and that lead to talking about Branch Prediction.

Harsh Kapadia shared Sudhanshu Yadav's The Internals YouTube channel where he goes into the internals of various Web technologies. He is hosting another 'The Internals' meetup on December 11. Do attend!

An amazing thread on Cookies by Sudhanshu Yadav was shared.

Harsh Kapadia showcased his portfolio. (Web site | GitHub)

Tanay Kamath showcased KBlock, a call blocker Android app he built in Kotlin. (GitHub)