Meetups/Infra/2024-05-20

Work day, spent getting everyone on IRC, and working on IRC bots or bits of services for hosting the meetup smoothly, quickly, and with concurrent contributions.

Introductions

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

• Loren - hosting meetup. Here to stay sharp, share knowledge, get people
• Doug - enjoying the vibes, here to learn.
• Matt - used to do sysadmin stuff with loren, likes computers
• Robert - also like computers, a lot. I like IRC, thinking meetup pad. Scribe would be cool.

Lesson or Demo

Matt visited PyCon this weekend, in ...

• https://us.pycon.org/2024/schedule/

(talks playlist is up on youtube, but all talks are still private for now)

• https://github.com/edgedb/memhive: True multithreaded shared-memory subinterpreter orchestator: "DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION OR YOU WILL BE FIRED"

Cython - will take python code, or c code, and combine them into one language. A simple speedup.

Last week

• https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra/2024-05-13#Goals_in_the_future

Useful Resource: https://lambdablob.com/posts/nix-haskell-programming-environment/

Candidate #1 : https://github.com/siers/zn

• 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://www.ctrl.blog/entry/systemd-service-hardening.html

https://chatgpt.com/share/b722848c-c91a-45e7-bf71-0a616cab8109

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell --pure -i runghc -p "haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages (pkgs: [ pkgs.lambdabot ])"

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import Lambdabot.Main
import Lambdabot.Config.Server
import Lambdabot.Plugin.Core
import Lambdabot.Util

main :: IO ()
main = lambdabotMain defaultConfig { lbotPort = 6667
                                   , lbotServer = "irc.freenode.net"
                                   , lbotChannels = ["#yourchannel"]
                                   , lbotNick = "EchoBot"
                                   , lbotPlugins = ["Echo"]
                                   }

echoPlugin :: Module ()
echoPlugin = newModule
    { moduleCmds = return
        [ (command "echo")
            { help = say "echo <message>. Echoes the message back to the channel."
            , process = \rest _ -> say rest
            }
        ]
    }

Done today, Want to do next time

• Loren - some irc setup, make an api - esp long polling
• Matt - added NoiseBot chat bot (locally), thinking about deployment,
• Doug - created noisebot 2.0, haskell, broke some hammers and chisels
• Jordan - distracted people, want to productionize Ergo Chat, to deploy this more widely
• Henry - nothing today, got a user set up , should make an LLM chatbot. we have llm chat bot

share out irc access to user tailnets

NB - get people involed in nb infra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ&pp=ygUUa3JhemFtIG1pY3Jvc2VydmljZXM%3D

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