presentations

Potential presentation topics

Core Networking & Web

/etc/hosts Usage
Name-Based Virtual Hosting – Wikipedia, RFC 9112
Host Header – MDN
Server Name Indication (SNI) – Cloudflare Learning, Wikipedia
Web Application and Web Service Troubleshooting
Firewalls
Email Deliverability

Web Servers & Delivery

Nginx – Docs
Apache – Docs
Jekyll / Static Site Generators
Phoenix Server Pattern – Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks
Immutable Infrastructure – CNCF, HashiCorp

Security & Trust

TLS (see braindump below)
SSH Keys and the SSH Protocol
Incident Response – PagerDuty Training
Security Theater – Wikipedia
Qualys SSL Labs – SSL Test
Cybersecurity
Hacker Culture

Infrastructure / Automation / Platform

Configuration Management
Terraform
Ansible
CI/CD
GitHub Beyond Repos
Do Nothing Scripting
AGENTS.md
Sentry
Devcontainers 1, 2, 3, 4

Ops, Process & Frameworks

Cloud Centers of Excellence
ITIL – Wikipedia
The Ops Report Card – Tool
Tom Limoncelli’s Books – EverythingSysadmin
Diátaxis – diataxis.fr
Top Down vs Bottom Up – Wikipedia
ThoughtWorks Radar – Radar
Five Dysfunctions of a Team Pyramid – PDF
The Four Golden Signals for Monitoring Public-Facing Web Applications – Google SRE Book, PFLB

Architecture, Patterns & Systems Thinking

A Pattern Language – Wikipedia
Christopher Alexander (Beautiful Software) – Building Beauty
Anti-Patterns – Wikipedia
Antifragility – Wikipedia
Fractals

Documentation, Knowledge & Tooling

Markdown
Obsidian
plain text and avoiding “What You See is All There Is” bias (WYSIATI)
curl (see braindump)
DNS / Domains (see braindump)

Culture, People, Practice

Open Source / Free Software
Open Source Community
Mindfulness
open source program offices (OSPO)

Sustainability / Interdisciplinary

Permacomputing – permacomputing.net
Field Botany and California Native Plants

Existing Braindumps (to convert to slides)

DNS / Domains – Gist
TLS – Gist
AWS – Gist
curl – Gist
More Braindumps To Write – Gist

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