About OTC CatchUp
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OTC CatchUps are weekly informal sessions involving project showcases and technical discussions. They are held every Saturday from 10:30 PM IST. Join in!. For all summaries, please visit catchup.ourtech.community/summary. |
OTC CatchUp #82
Date: 04-06-2022
Duration: 5 hrs 7 mins
Topics Discussed
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We talked about GitHub Field Day India and where everyone was going to attend it and about accommodation.
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Siddharth Bhatia told everyone about Thonny which is a Python IDE for beginners following which we discussed about various text editors and IDEs available out there.
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We talked about Jupyter Notebooks and Google Colab.
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Nilesh Shinde shared a blog by - Jovian about Machine Learning.
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Then we talked about key bindings.
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Dhiraj Chauhan told everyone about his GSoC organization - 52 North.
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We talked about API Keys and how to keep them secure. Ideally, Key Authentication must be handled using a Middleware and not to be hardcoded on the client side.
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However, if the situation is such that the keys need to be stored on the client side, then specific rules must specified so that they have limited capabilities.
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Anil Harwani shared a resource about hard core obfuscation.
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Siddharth Kaduskar asked for everyone’s suggestions on how to explore tech in various domains.
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Harsh Kapadia's Web-dev path can be used as a reference when exploring web development.
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Dheeraj Lalwani asked everyone about where to publish tech blogs and Harsh Kapadia suggested to use canonical links.
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Here’s an article explaining why canonical links are important.
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We talked about how OTC came into existence.
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We had a discussion about Data Structures and Algorithms and how problem solving is different from competitive programming.
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We also talked about time and space complexity.
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Lastly we spoke about Apache Airflow and CRON Jobs
Projects Showcased
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Ishwar Gowda showcased an assembler he had built in Go as a part of following nand2tetris course.
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