OTC CatchUp #59 Summary

General introductions.

Himanshu Sharma explained his article/blog writing process and shared his blog StateNotifier: Improving state change notifiers in Flutter.

Anil Harwani told us how to work with people and how to address various problems that come up while working with them.

Anil Harwani told everyone about James Webb and the engineering marvels of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Anil Harwani shared

We discussed how education has become a business.

Rishit Dagli asked about the benefits of working at a startup and Shivay Lamba, Anam Saatvik Reddy and Sreekaran Srinath pitched in their views.

Anil Harwani shared a book Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering which with a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, offers insights for anyone managing complex projects.

Databases

An article by Jake Archibald on How to win at CORS covering almost everything related to CORS was shared.

We discussed about the value of using IPFS instead of Torrent. Here’s some further reading.

Netflix

We discussed various string manipulation techniques in Shell scripts such as IFS, Shell string manipulation, awk (file) and sed (file).

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We discussed about serving a website from home.

We talked about Universal Plug and Play (UPNP).

Anil Harwani suggested to not SSH into a server directly over the public internet but to use a VPN.

We discussed about financial planning.

We also discussed about Proprietorship vs LLC.

We talked about what Blockchain is why it is needed.

Harsh Kapadia showcased his project Asciidoctor Jet, which is a ready-to-use jet black themed template for building static sites using Asciidoctor.

Rishit Dagli shared a paper that he had published.