The Insight Scoop

We discuss what the work is like in the gaming industry. Oskar talks about the benefits of working a manual food delivery job and how that adds to his mental health.

Reflecting on what's been going on in our lives lately. Mainly a touch base about university and how we got into computing, etc.

In this episode Marius shares what the corporate life is like for a newly hired software engineer at a big corporation. Thoughts about life, the meaning of it, and advice for future graduates.

Talking about mobile phone screen sizes with Aylin. His research for the honours project involved testing reaction times of users using a single hand to pop bubbles on a mobile device.

"The NFT market has imploded over the past month, with sales in every single category almost entirely drying up."

The mentioned in the podcast article: https://protos.com/nft-market-bubble-popped-crypto-collectibles-are-over/

Landing a spacecraft on a planet's surface is quite a challenge. Yaseen was working on a system to detect boulders on lunar surfaces in an attempt to assist simulations and researchers working on this landing task.

Presentation video: https://youtu.be/TCBJ8YUlME4

Project: https://github.com/Youssless/planetary-surface-boulder-detector

Pretty much everyone who uses the internet these days are exposed to some sort of an authentication system. Meaning they most likely have an account. By the current definition it means they must have created a password at some point too. Older adults having difficulty adapting to the rapidly changing technological landscape are at risk. Melvin created a project to attempt assisting them to keep their online property safe.

The mentioned application can be found here: https://protecting-older-adults-online.herokuapp.com/#/

Data set: https://github.com/mabraham123/protecting-older-adults-online-files/tree/main/Older_Adults_Dataset_Account_Access_Graphs/Graph_JSON%27s

Research report: https://github.com/mabraham123/protecting-older-adults-online-files/blob/main/DoC_HonoursReport_MelvinAbraham.pdf

Final year university project involving microservices and other goodies explained by Dumitru. We also chat about expectations and disappointments regarding university experience and the whole education system.

Find out more: https://www.dumitruvulpe.com/

Projects are over it is time to reflect on what was learned along the way. One of the main takeaways is that a plan is really important. Can you plan out life as well?

Graduating university in these weird times. Feeling the sense of community. And having an early midlife crisis.