You wait weeks to see some new faces at the meetups, then 4 show up at once! It was a reasonably gentle start to the meetup. Dan and I were both there early to try to get some work done because the meetups are great for, well, meeting up, but less so for actually producing functional code!

Disposable Hardware

Dan had mentioned last week that he intended to set up a home server using a raspberry pi, so I had a root around in my hardware drawer for spares and found I had even more unutilised pis than than I thought!

I kept ahold of the raspberry pi 0 and the model A (sentimental value), but was happy for Dan to take the B+ if he can put it to good use. Maybe I can persuade him to do a post on here describing his experience of getting it up and running…

Lunch

Dan and I grabbed a burrito at Freebird in the Shoreditch Food Village around the corner from (Citizen M), which was very tasty and much needed.

It might be an idea to arrange to go there after one of the meetups for a more socially focused get-together.

Summer will be gone before we know it, so bring it up if that sounds like something you’d be interested in!

Busy afternoon

In the afternoon we were joined by first-time attendee Linda who’s working on a library (like, book library) app in react. Linda also has a keen interest in blockchain technology and there was some lively discussion of bitcoin and ethereum that drifted on to the wider applicability of blockchains including a social network (steemit) - which I haven’t had time to look into yet, but there’s the link if you want to check it out!

While I continued to flounder around with wireframing tools and @media rules, we were joined by Rahul and Sam (still a man of mystery).

And the new faces kept coming - Tano, Ru (Roo? Rhu?), I think a chap called Alex showed up after I left. Phew! I feel like I’m still missing someone else.

So I don’t know what other conversations were had while I was discussing monkey socialism with Rahul and PHP alternatives with Sam, but I’m sure they were equally fascinating!

Hope to see new attendees back next week or in the slack channel.

Mark