Meetups/Infra/2025-05-05

2025-05-05m Meetups/Infra

Introductions

• Loren -- background in cloud, platform engineer -- want to develop local-first software for infra meetup discussions.
• Doug -- background: into self-hosting, into free, (as in beer? speech? yes).
• Jams --- he/him -- background in software, current interest in generally intelligent system
• -- here from spacebridge, learning cybersecurity. Was graphic designer at AirBNB, new to SF
• Teresa -- here via meetup, work at Apple. Internship at Apple, Vision Pro user testing, full stack bootcamp. Interested in vibe coding, SaaS. Lots of resources online.
• Zacchae -- limited participation, self-host email, matrix server, only centralized service I use is telephone (there I have rights). Want to host relays. Want more federated systems, easy to set up.
• James -- france, just arrived 3h ago. Building an app, in Rust, comparing lib-tos? tauri solutions. Github are have many open PRs. 3mo no activity.
• [Suhail hael?] -- building a startup, problem: insurance company, fighting denials. 25 healthcare client, 36k phone calls so far
• WE-Z -- hacker locale, teach swift, lockpicking, like making building & hacking. Interested tonight in infra, building ...
• Chris -- designer, full-stack dev -- working on AI poetry bot & SF events database
• Eric -- work at [], 3 years. Here to check-out the meetup.
• Noah -- first time here, SW intern @ LLNL, really into self hosting llms, now my own VPN.

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!

email servers

Hosting Zulip server https://zulip.com/

Organized chat for distributed teams

Interfaces well with email > you can email into it. Allows sending email + fully supported plugins.

• email

inbound mail: MX (A) for your site.

outbound mail: TXT spf: (sender policy frameworks") -- a: cname:  ? - DKIM (Domain-Key Identified Mail) -- DMARC (reporting)

• https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/
• https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=local+first&sort=byPopularity&type=all

local-first software -- infra meetup (...)

localfirst links from jams:

- https://www.localfirstconf.com/
- https://replicache.dev/

obsidian? -- sync over network

https://gun.js.org -- local-first, decentralized, running in a browser (no binary needed)

? SimpleStore

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