Meetups/Infra/2024-09-23

Some history of computing, discussion of nix & debian, docker, just (make), and NB network infrastructure.

Introductions

• [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]

• Loren
• Doug
• Ben
• Greg
• Sophia

Lesson or Demo

• Want to talk about cryptography today. I mean to advertise it actively, draw a big group. So I want to review those topics today, and prepare a presentation.

• History -- starting ISP -- SCO unix, ISP, web host,
• Nix? ci -- Pinning is bad. Eventually
  • How heavy is testing?
  • Breaking prod, do frequently -- ease and comfort of rollback.
• https://perses.dev/ - lightweight? monitoring dashboard
• https://github.com/casey/just/issues/1201
• https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images/

• IETF, IANA (ports/services -- root of it all, delegate lots), ICANN (domains)
  • CFRG

• Read aloud: clarify for meetup. We are taking notes in a riseup pad (or I am--help appreciated, and links). We have meeting notes posted to the wiki. noisebridge.net, search Infra, or Meetups/Infra. (the Infrastructure page has a disambiguation link.)
• Shell, web services, self-hosting, networking!

https://github.com/magicproduct/hash-hop
https://github.com/magicproduct/hash-hop/blob/main/README.md

https://arxiv.org/html/2403.05530v2
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/344

https://dhall-lang.org/
https://github.com/tweag/nickel
https://cuelang.org/

https://pest.rs/
https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom
https://github.com/pest-parser/pest
https://github.com/pest-parser/awesome-pest
https://github.com/casey/just
https://github.com/casey/just/issues/1201

Questions, Discussion, or Coworking

• [Issue]

For next time

Readings & Exercises

• Readings
• Exercises

Join online

• Try it yourself!
  • Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra