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HiveFest: say Hi(ve) in person

I’ll keep this one short(-ish). HiveFest starts soon. I’m in Kuala Lumpur and, in a few blinks, we’ll already be boarding planes home. If you’re around: come sa...

Muddy Confluence after Split. Also: OMG OHMB!

One Hundred Million Blocks on Hive! I’d brag about signing the 100,000,000th block, but it wasn’t me - @deathwing nailed it ;-) See for yourself: https://explor...

Updates. Re: branding. It’s about me and the mirror. And also HiveFest.

New avatar So, first things first: I’ve changed my avatar. Blame @roelandp - he asked me for my logo, and since my "company" is just me (that’s quite a company,...

gtg witness update: Meetups, airlines partnership, shooting devs.

Hive Meetups Online Audio/Video Calls I manage a public jitsi platform at https://meet.openhive.chat, which you can use for your calls. We use this instance for...

HiveFest⁵ - This year at your place!

You can’t come to HiveFest? No worries, HiveFest will come to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpjVppi-z8 HiveFest5 promotional video Where? After Amsterdam...

Steem Torch Handover

Because this is a low-effort post (which will probably take me hours to prepare), I want to make it a Steem-environment friendly and zero emission, although the...

Steem Pressure #8: Power Up Your dApp. RethinkDB? KISS my ASAP.

While building your Steem blockchain dApp, you will soon realize that it’s not that easy to get the data you are looking for quickly, unless there’s already an ...

Post SteemFestic Blues

Many thanks to @roelandp and all involved parties for this great adventure. It was the fourth time I had the pleasure to attend the event. We have without doubt...

Road to SteemFest - One post to write them all and in the blockchain bind them.

100% rewards (via beneficiary) goes to SteemFest Travel Reimbursement Fund Store offer, somewhere in Golden Triangle area, Thailand > You have one week to catch...

Support Steem.DAO: Return Proposal

Steem.DAO is set as 100% beneficiary of this post. It means that all author rewards (if any) will go to @steem.dao account at the payout time. In other words, y...

Yet another SteemSTEM logo reveal video

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Powered by Steem On the Steem platform, we have a wide variety of various topics, such as who is or isn't Satoshi...

Steem Pressure #7: Go Fork Yourself. Step by step guide to building and setting up a MIRA powered HF21-ready Steem consensus node.

The date of the next, 21st HardFork, has been set, and it is approaching quickly. There's plenty of info around the web on how to build a Steem node from scratc...

Road to SteemFest Powered Up: Exclusive discounts for flight tickets!

You might remember that I’ve already done that before: I negotiated an agreement with an airline with special offers for participants travelling to SteemFest. T...

Steem Pressure #6 - MIRA: YMMV, RTFM, TLDR: LGTM

MIRA has recently become the most famous ETLA on STEEM. But what exactly is MIRA and what does it do? Let’s take a look at MIRA performance-wise. https://www.yo...

Steem Pressure #5 - Run, Block, Run!

> Run, boy, run! They’re trying to catch you. In the previous episode of the Steem Pressure series, we checked how much time we needed to get a fully functional...

gtg witness log

The vacation is over, it’s time to get back to work. Yeah, right, as if you could call a two-week trip a vacation. Do witnesses ever go on vacation? In a way, t...

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Powered by Steem

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Powered by Steem Some time ago, I published a short video that I’d rendered from templates to promote SteemSTEM. ...

SteemFest³ - A Long-expected Party!

> “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like > and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve” > - Bilbo Baggins, The Fellowship of t...

Support SteemFest Travel Reimbursement Fund

I’ve just donated 300 STEEM, and in a week from now all liquid rewards from this post will be transferred to the SteemFest Travel Reimbursement Fund https://www...

Halloween contest & promo - tricks and treats

Is Halloween the thing where you live? > On Hallowe'en (All Hallows' Eve), in Poland, believers were once taught to pray out loud as they walk through the fores...