OTC CatchUp #71 Summary

General introductions.

Kartik Soneji told us how he found a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability on a Canadian government web site as they were using document.write.

Apurv Khare, who runs the YouTube channel What The Code, talked about how he is reading up a lot on web.dev.

We talked about how Open Source packages are being sabotaged by their maintainers.

We discussed the new Apple M1 Ultra processor.

Ashwin Kumar Uppala talked about his journey with communities and he shared his own community Hackerbad.

Harsh Kapadia shared a video on the recent Spotify outage that was a Microservice failure caused by GCP’s Traffic Director service going down.

We discussed self-help books and how similar and known ideas are repeated again and again in different forms in such books.

Different niche Mental Health services such as Raahee, Reflectly, Waking Up, Calm, etc. were discussed.

Kartik Soneji talked about his hilarious SIH internal hackathon experience. He also shared his project idea with everyone.

Aditya Oberai told us about his Imagine Cup hackahton experience.

Jaden Furtado shared The Git Parable.

Mihika Gaonkar showcased her Data Visualization project OTC Analysis, which is a dashboard created using Power BI and Google Data Studio for analyzing previous OTC CatchUps.

Krishna Dave and Piyush Paul showcased MindMate, an Android app for patients suffering from Dementia.

Kartik Soneji, Jay Kaku, Saket Thota and Darshan Rander showcased _DemiBuddy, a web app and Flutter app for Dementia patients.