Status update, 2020-07-20
Anirudh Oppiliappan x@icyphox.sh
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+--- +template: +url: 2020-07-20 +title: Status update +subtitle: Things I've been up to, for the past month-ish +date: 2020-07-20 +--- + +I realize I haven't updated this site in a while -- mostly due to lack +of time. The past two weeks have been pretty busy (read: I now actually +have work to do), which also means I have very little time to devote to +personal projects. Anyway, on with the update. + +## I now work at CometChat + +I've begun working as an Engineering Intern at CometChat. It's been +a very interesting experience so far. Most of my work revolves around +infrastructure and platform engineering -- pretty exciting stuff. Fun +fact: one of the world's biggest music festivals -- Tomorrowland -- is +being hosted online, on our platform! As a result, a lot of the work +being done infra-side is scaling up for it. + +I have also been extensively dabbling in XMPP and websocket internals, +as I'm writing a websocket proxy of sorts. I'll probably talk about it +in a future blog post, once I get approval org-side. :^) + +## that's literally it + +I sat all day thinking of what else to add to this post -- there's _got +to be_ something else right? Not really. I don't think I did anything +worthwhile. I did get some pretty interesting emails from people who +read this blog, so yes, please email me -- even if it's just to say hi. +I always reply.
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</image> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0</copyright> - <item><title>Flask-JWT-Extended × Flask-Login</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For the past few months, I’ve been working on building a backend for + <item><title>Status update</title><description><![CDATA[<p>I realize I haven’t updated this site in a while—mostly due to lack +of time. The past two weeks have been pretty busy (read: I now actually +have work to do), which also means I have very little time to devote to +personal projects. Anyway, on with the update.</p> + +<h2 id="i-now-work-at-cometchat">I now work at CometChat</h2> + +<p>I’ve begun working as an Engineering Intern at CometChat. It’s been +a very interesting experience so far. Most of my work revolves around +infrastructure and platform engineering—pretty exciting stuff. Fun +fact: one of the world’s biggest music festivals—Tomorrowland—is +being hosted online, on our platform! As a result, a lot of the work +being done infra-side is scaling up for it.</p> + +<p>I have also been extensively dabbling in XMPP and websocket internals, +as I’m writing a websocket proxy of sorts. I’ll probably talk about it +in a future blog post, once I get approval org-side. :^)</p> + +<h2 id="thats-literally-it">that’s literally it</h2> + +<p>I sat all day thinking of what else to add to this post—there’s <em>got +to be</em> something else right? Not really. I don’t think I did anything +worthwhile. I did get some pretty interesting emails from people who +read this blog, so yes, please email me—even if it’s just to say hi. +I always reply.</p> +]]></description><link>https://icyphox.sh/blog/2020-07-20</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://icyphox.sh/blog/2020-07-20</guid></item><item><title>Flask-JWT-Extended × Flask-Login</title><description><![CDATA[<p>For the past few months, I’ve been working on building a backend for <code>$STARTUP</code>, with a bunch of friends. I’ll probably write in detail about it when we launch our beta. The backend is your bog standard REST API, built on Flask—if you didn’t guess from the title already.</p>
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+--- +template: +url: 2020-07-20 +title: Status update +subtitle: Things I've been up to, for the past month-ish +date: 2020-07-20 +--- + +I realize I haven't updated this site in a while -- mostly due to lack +of time. The past two weeks have been pretty busy (read: I now actually +have work to do), which also means I have very little time to devote to +personal projects. Anyway, on with the update. + +## I now work at CometChat + +I've begun working as an Engineering Intern at CometChat. It's been +a very interesting experience so far. Most of my work revolves around +infrastructure and platform engineering -- pretty exciting stuff. Fun +fact: one of the world's biggest music festivals -- Tomorrowland -- is +being hosted online, on our platform! As a result, a lot of the work +being done infra-side is scaling up for it. + +I have also been extensively dabbling in XMPP and websocket internals, +as I'm writing a websocket proxy of sorts. I'll probably talk about it +in a future blog post, once I get approval org-side. :^) + +## that's literally it + +I sat all day thinking of what else to add to this post -- there's _got +to be_ something else right? Not really. I don't think I did anything +worthwhile. I did get some pretty interesting emails from people who +read this blog, so yes, please email me -- even if it's just to say hi. +I always reply.
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<tbody> <tr> + <td align="left"><a href="/blog/2020-07-20">Status update</a></td> + <td align="right">2020-07-20</td> + </tr> + + <tr> <td align="left"><a href="/blog/flask-jwt-login">Flask-JWT-Extended × Flask-Login</a></td> <td align="right">2020-06-24</td> </tr>
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