Meetups/Infra/2025-10-13

A small start with regulars, and a larger continguent joining. Discussion of NB network plans, micropython and embedded interpreters, and scraping & parsing data and awesome-jq tools.

What's up

• fun data to share
• geopolitics in the news

Introductions

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

• Loren -- thinking about data
• Kevin -- MisterName on the socials, I like to code, I like AI. Nearly deplying a backend stack, for mobile, with k8s. LLMs filling in the knowledge holes
• Alex -- messing around with bsky firehose, generate embeddings. LanceDB, vector store. HF tinyClip, ray serve, handling cluster creation + some batching. k8s -- also interested in. (excessive complexity, but learning new things)
• -- bg in hardware & physics, trying to learn secrets behind computer architecture
• Frank -- here to talk about computing in general, have been working on k8s in general, but not today
• Doug -- computer toucher, highlight of my week: building a chunking strategy for a friend to build a RAG system. Solution is better than OpenAI's. Working with faiss,
• Elan -- into cloud computing, for whatever that means. learning a lot about networking.
• Gwen -- lifelong learner.
• Marshall -- work for agora (.io). an ml guy
• Wheezy -- have accomplished nothing with my life. Finished downloading the blockchain I wanted. Latest & greatest in whatever anyone else is doing. Great box in back of the electronics room
• Daniel --

Lesson or Demo

• 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!

• HAR: 180MB har, to 1-5MB html, to xhtml~, to xml, to json, to some enhancements

• kevin -- stumbled across an "awesome-" repo on github, for jq, and jq-likes. https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq

There's a jq for python.

• grep

• df robotics left a bunch of esps or similar.
• MicroPython -- vs MicroPythonOS -- little
  • CircuitPython -- micropython oss distribution by AdaFruit

• NB Local network services: Seeking advice
  • 10.21.0.0/23 -- is in use now

10.21..0.0/22 -- so that the k8s cluster can offer Services on 
10.21.2.0/24 and 10.21.3.0/24 i.e. 10.21.2.0/23

Takeaways & For next time

• network planning pages on the wiki -- home well documented noisebridge is on noisebridge
• claude us!
• circuit python
  • MicroPythonOS
• learned what grep stands for
• brainworm of VLANs and DHCP
• endoflife.date + source yaml + api
  • CPE -- Common Platform Enumeration -- NIST NVD == CVE database

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