OTC CatchUp #69 Summary

General introductions.

Aditya Oberai shared a link to how one can detect a click event inside an iframe.

Sanni Prasad told us how he transitioned from Xamarin to Flutter for building cross-platform mobile apps.

Aditya Oberai informed us that .NET MAUI is the successor of Xamarin.

Aditya Oberai also told us that Anders Hejlsberg is the core developer of TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal.

Aditya Oberai shared Becoming a Better Developer Through Open-Source.

Material Design

Points that should be covered in cover letters for job applications

How to talk about personal experiences relevant to the job without oversharing/crossing the boundaries.

We talked about how people/organisations/companies who sponsor OSS maintainers don’t have the right to dictate that Open Source project’s direction or ask for personal attention from the maintainer. (Context)

Meta and Metaverse

Anil Harwani told us about the working cultures at various companies and also told us how some companies have processes that force hiring idiots.

Anil Harwani talked about abstraction and gave us a few wonderful quotes.

We talked about Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS).

Shrinath Gupta asked how he could make his team follow best practices when not being in a leadership position. People told him that he could try to make his teammates understand, but it would be very difficult, as not everyone is equally passionate and/or caring about things and don’t want to go the extra mile for a fixed salary. Not being in a commanding position makes it even more difficult. He was advised to maintain a code standard for himself and eventually leave the company if the code standards were very bad and things don’t improve at all.

Anil Harwani talked about Tridactyl, a Vim-like interface for Firefox.

Comparing Technologies

Power states and power models in computers.

Omkar Khair and Anil Harwani discussed the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).

A standup bit on how Bill Burr destroyed Steve Jobs was shared.

Branch Prediction

Darshan Rander shared his experience interviewing for an internship at UBS.

Jay Kaku showcased the processor design for a Four Stage Pipelined RV32i Core that he built using TL-Verilog while following course material.

Harsh Kapadia showcased updates to Git Graph, a visualizer for the Directed Acyclic Graph that Git creates to connect Commit, Tree and Blob objects internally.