OTC CatchUp #9 Summary

General introductions

With WhatsApp changing its privacy policy, there was a lot of talk about privacy.

@Kartik Soneji and @Daksh Miglani talked about WebRTC. (Daksh’s notes)

While browsing through Devfolio's parent company 2586Labs' web site, I came across a nice article on Why your application didn’t make the cut, by Devfolio. Do make sure to have a read!

@sirus gave us an update on the PR that he had opened on the Flutter repo.

@Harsh Kapadia, @Preet Parekh and @sirus talked about #SastaClubhouse meetups and why everyone should attend them!

@Harsh Kapadia asked @Saurabh Daware and @Preet Parekh about PWAs and whether it was worthwhile to convert his web app to a PWA. They told him to beware of the caching problems with PWAs. They said that it was easy to get a PWA very wrong, so one should be cautious while building them.

@Kartik Soneji showed us an app of the company he is interning at, which he is trying to build for Android using React Native.

@Harsh Kapadia talked about his Imposter Syndrome.

@Kartik Soneji told us the story about the formation of MariaDB from MySQL after Oracle acquired it. He also told us how Oracle’s DBs are really performant, but are propriety and are required to be run only on Oracle’s hardware.

We reviewed a poorly written paper on reducing Bubble Sort’s time complexity.

We talked about teaching as a profession.

@Fab showcased her React Movie Library web app made using React.js, Tailwind CSS and The Movie DB API.

@Preet Parekh showed us a project on Devfolio that won a hackathon. The project is called Teleport and uses WebRTC, React.js, Node.js and other technologies.

@Preet Parekh also showed us his work at Devfolio which involved quadratic funding.

@Dheeraj Lalwani showed us a freelance project that he had worked on, called Marathi Comprehension.

@sirus and @Kartik Soneji debated on Flutter vs React Native.

Android vs iOS (and Apple’s ecosystem).

GitHub vs GitLab: @Kartik Soneji, @Preet Parekh and @Daksh Miglani had a long conversation comparing the CI/CD process of these two web apps.