OTC CatchUp #74 Summary

General introductions.

Himanshu Sharma and Sreekaran Srinath talked about their job roles.

Siddharth Dayalwal told us about the Mumbai edition of the Hack This Fall meetup six city tour.

Rishit Dagli talked about the colleges that he was interested in to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Canada and the USA.

We tried to solve Sainath Poojary’s issues with DNS and GitHub Pages while hosting his portfolio. He eventually managed to solve the issue by shifting his hosting from GitHub Pages to Vercel.

Jay Kaku shared a book Modern Compiler Implementation in C.

Rishit Dagli talked about the MLH Fellowship.

Kaustubh Khavnekar talked about his job responsibilities as a Senior Platform Engineer at Quantiphi that involve using various AWS offerings, writing various Infrastructure as Code scripts (Terraform), etc.

Ishan Sharma and Harsh Kapadia talked about certain improvements in HackerDraw and the team behind it.

Ishan Sharma shared how he appreciated that got an e-mail from Fig with steps to solve an error that he was facing while installing it. We weren’t sure whether that was really great DX or whether it was an invasion of privacy.

Kartik Soneji talked about the programming language Rust and why was it built.

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.

Ramyak Mehra showcased AR Slide Puzzle, an Augmented Reality (AR) slide puzzle game with a twist that he submitted to the Flutter Puzzle Hack.

Harsh Kapadia showcased IPL APP, an Auction Price Predictor (APP) for the Indian Premiere League (IPL).

Jaden Furtado showcased Self Help App, a web app to plan out tasks.

Jaden Furtado also showcased CodeIt, a web based code editor that he built using PHP, Python and other FOSS.