The NYC Lesbians Who Tech Summit starts today and I think I am in heaven. Hundreds of queer women and allies from software developers to executives in one space nerding out and empowering each other- ahhh!

Also, it has some of the best talk titles I've ever skimmed in a tech conference pamphlet. A sample:

"The Gift of Being a Lesbian Who Techs: Igniting Your Power to Lead"

"Space, Science & Religion: Why This Muslim Space Nerd Wants to Travel to Mars"

"How Tech is Revolutionizing the Billion Dollar Cannabis Industry, and Why Women are
Dominating"

"Ruthlessly Running in the Direction of Your Fears"

"No Gods, No Managers: How Anarchist Ideals Can Help Make Your Office & Open Source Project Better"

I love our community❤️ So amazing that it has come far enough for something like this to exist.

And this is how it starts. I bought a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, quite some time ago. Plain board, just the board and a case. Why? Well, I have no idea. I always wanted one for some reason... and finally got one.

I got a good sd card for it, and flashed raspbian and... now what? What should I do with this?

*Looks up "Cool RPi projects"*

*Nah, I already have a NAS... No, wouldn't really use a media center... play games?*

*Well, let me just install sshd and come back to it later.*

Today, I run pi-hole, jekyll, node, gitd, a ton of other things that ends with d... I am even considering buying an extra one (maybe two).

Now I'm really afraid of what would happen if I give in to the urge of buying sensors and add-on boards.

Colin Rickels [10:24 AM]
i know im nerding out but this alone is one of the reasons i think node is byfar the greatest platform to write an app on. In one line, it checks how many cpus your machine has, makes sure your running currently on a master process and not a child spawn, forks child processes for each core you have so that your now running a cluster of node.js servers (one per cpu sharing the same port) and then spins up the server. Its brilliant! And even though your writing simple javascript thats easy to understand, your also thinking about low level mechanics of server functionality