Tracey Jaquith
Founding Coder, Internet Archive 🏛️
TV Architect

I focus on TV, video/audio, UI/UX, javascript 🦕, markdown, 🦭 containers & devops 🐋

Find me at: 🦣 mastodon 🐦 twitter/X

Presentations & Talks [2023...2016]

What's on TV?
4 editors and 2 robots walk into a bar..

Aaron Swartz Day 2023.
Using TV news "chyron" text overlays in the "lower third" (from human editors), image-to-text (OCR), grouping/filtering, and AI gpt-4 to summarize --> we social post hourly:
"What's on TV?"

Safer Containers at the Archive in 2023

Tracey Jaquith & Rob Keizer talk about how to run docker containers more safely & quickly.
Our team shares some high-level reasons why we're finding `podman` (a drop-in replacement for `docker` from RedHat) a more secure way to run containers
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Blogtini: Blogs & static Websites: Markdown + 1 line of Javascript

DWebCamp 2023 Talk.
Create blogs and websites with just MarkDown and a single JavaScript include. Decentralize & Archive your content forever with content-first beautiful blogs & sites. Host & serve it for free. Change your theme with one line change. blogtini.com
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Markdown & JS Blogs/Websites; Call for volunteers for IA JS project

Create free blogs and websites entirely from markdown leveraging one JavaScript file. Take back control of your content with a newer vision for internetworked, decentralized social sharing with friends, family, and the world. Your website will be archivable, decentralize-able, 100% content-first, and will live forever. blogtini.com
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Decentralized Social via markdown Blogs (+JS)

Create free blogs and websites entirely from markdown leveraging one JavaScript file. Take back control of your content with a newer vision for internetworked, decentralized social sharing with friends, family, and the world. Your website will be archivable, decentralize-able, 100% content-first, and will live forever. blogtini.com
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HashiTalks 2022

Nomad the Easy Way - Creating GitHub & GitLab Pipelines in Minutes
(also pre-announcing
HinD - Hashistack-in-Docker)

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Aaron Swartz Day 2021

How a Denosaur 🦕 is making it so Everyone Can Code.
Aaron wanted to democratize everything - power to everyone. I live code a single JS file & fun graph visualization of archive.org live concerts, and how anyone can code with zero setup.
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Internet Archive 25th Anniversary

As founding coder of Internet Archive, I get to emcee our 25th Anniversary Celebration at our San Francisco Headquarters!

Demuxed 2021

30,000 fps nginx - To Russia with Love
Working a patch upstream to nginx mp4 module for exact start/end lossless server-side mp4 clipping
Demuxed 2021
I won audience favorite talk award for the day!
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Moving archive.org from Kubernetes to Nomad

What is Orchestration? How do Containers help? How did we move Kubernetes to Nomad using GitLab plus a single templated common job file?
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Deriver (Item Processing) Speedups

Speeding up item processing at archive.org. GPUs, single-pass mp4 processing, serverless deriving with arbitrary containers, and more!
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Word Salad - a word game

I made a NY Times Spelling Bee knock-off game. What can you do with 7 letters? 😺
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[1/2] Setup GitLab, Nomad, Consul & Fabio

🚂 DevOps Training: part 1 of 2: Build up GitLab (via Docker omnibus) + basic & secure Nomad & Consul pair of daemons, towards full CI/CD pipelines, on Digital Ocean
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[2/2] Add GitLab Runner & Setup full CI/CD pipelines

🚂 DevOps Training: part 2 of 2: setup GitLab Runner and tie everything together to get full end-to-end CI/CD pipelines working cleanly
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Create a webapp on GitLab

🚂 DevOps Training: hands on webapp creation, start to finish, full CI/CD pipelines
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HashiTalks 2021

GitLab + Nomad: a GitOps Dream Come True
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Aaron Swartz Day 2020

Processing Hype Project 🚀
(It's not PHP ;-)
Modern JS and Serverless processing
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GitLab Commit 2020

Simple CI/CD with GitLab + Nomad
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Aaron Swartz Day 2019

Internet Archive - Pods & Pods - ++diversity
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KubeCon 2018 - Seattle

Migrating Internet Archive to Kubernetes
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Internet Archive Engineering 2018 - San Francisco

GitLab 'Auto DevOps' Changes Everything
Dev & Ops Harmony - Confessions of a middle child
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Demuxed 2018 - San Francisco

Third Eye - tweeting TV text overlays. CNN MSNBC FOXNEWS BBCNEWS. (chyrons / lower thirds)

Demuxed 2018 - San Francisco

WebAmp Lightning Talk [WinAmp in JS](and i tell bad jokes)
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MozFest 2017 - London

TV Archives cracked Open "AI for IA" -- Artificial Intelligence for Internet Archive

Demuxed 2016 - San Francisco

Tracey Jaquith - Popcorn Reborn! Open Video Editor from Mozilla
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