dana-varahi

Christmas at the Botanics pt 01

Myself and @antonchanning decided to check out Christmas at the Botanics in Edinburgh this year. We bought our tickets for the last weekend of November. Weather...

Plants in Autumn

November has a reputation for being really cold and dull but if you walk in nature with an attentive eye you will spot some real beauty. I love to look at small...

Iron Maiden Limited Edition CD - Number 06660

@dana-varahi and I are having a clear out and raising money to move country, from Scotland to Finland. For the right price I am willing to part with one of my p...

Learning Finnish: WordDive

I have been learning Finnish for almost a year now, and I thought I'd share a series of blogs reviewing the various learning methods and resources that I have c...

My feelings on Brexit...

Explaining how I have been feeling over the past few years seems a futile endeavour when it comes to convincing Brexit zealots to change their mind, so I largel...

Installing Linux for the first time.

In this blog, I will share with you my experience of installing Linux for the first time. The process was not as difficult as I expected but it involved a learn...

Roslin Tree Stump Troll

Dana and I often experience pareidolia whilst on walks in nature, and sometimes also in more urban environments. We tend to treat such encounters as encounters ...

Where have we been?

Me enjoying my holiday in Orkney with Dana Varahi Okay, @dana-varahi and I have not been posting on steem for a couple of months, or working on @blockpress. We ...

Somewhere in Scotland

A snapshot from British reality through the eyes of a non-binary Pole thrown under the Brexit bus and living in hope of Independent Scotland. Somewhere in Scotl...

Meet Utopian.io and SteemStem at VIRGO in Italy in September!

Come meet Utopian.io! We are excited to announce the launch the dates for the first Utopian (mini)Fest, the MINI one! Following an invitation by the team at @st...

BlockPress Palette Creation Contest! 15 SBD top prize, plus runner up prizes!

Got CSS skills? Good at choosing a colour scheme? Then this is the contest for you! Unlike many content management systems, BlockPress enjoys a seperation of la...

Random Cat BlockPress module creation tutorial...

https://github.com/blockpress/blockpress.me Part of the power of BlockPress lies in its extensibility. Writing a module is fairly straight forward, only a few s...

Updated BlockPress documentation for beta release

https://github.com/blockpress/blockpress.me Details As BlockPress is prepared for beta release, the time came to ensure the documentation was comprehensive and ...

BlockPress: Browse Steem Content on an IPFS site...

One of our medium term objectives for @blockpress is to get it working on IPFS. If you haven't heard of IPFS, it is basically the decentralised web. It has its ...

Cruise on Moray Firth

I was on a holiday last week and my family visited so we wanted to entertain them. I decided to book a boat cruise on board the Dolphin Spirit. It's a pleasure ...

Muir of Ord

In my previous blog, I described my visit to Glen Ord Distillery. I took some photos on my way there and want to share them with you. The distillery is the only...

Glen Ord Distillery

Glen Ord Distillery Glen Ord Distillery is located in the Muir of Ord village and it produces Singleton Whisky for Asian export. This means that the only place ...

Blockpress supports js and jquery libraries for theme creation

https://github.com/blockpress/blockpress.me New Features Javascript support for themes This new feature means that theme creators no longer need to embed their ...

BlockPress mentions, Amber Theme and Icing Palette

https://github.com/blockpress/blockpress.me New Features Tags and Mentions The BlockPress Steem module allowed links on tags in the profile description and now ...

BlockPress now has permlinks and posts by tag.

https://github.com/blockpress/blockpress.me New Features Permlink support One of the challenges in building a functioning AJAX application is the problem of per...