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Design By Committee

When fixing the broken tooling is everyone's job, it's no one's responsibility. My last post (another bug report) is still unfixed, too. What's with this propos...

Bug Report: hive.blog errors when trying to post "Power Up 100%": "Missing posting authority"

See above. When trying to make a new top-level blog post, with "Power Up 100%" selected, posting fails with the error Missing Posting Authority sneak. Possibly ...

Alternate Implementations / Project Reboot

Blockchain If someone were to ask my opinion, the first thing that someone forking Steem should do would be to reimplement a subset of the daemon in a modern, s...

Hi Again, Steem!

Hi Steem! Hi all! It's been a while since I've posted on Steem. I needed a little break from all things steem-related for a little while, but now I'm back. I ma...

John Perry Barlow has died.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-1947-2018 John Perry Barlow was one of my favorite humans, though we never got a chance...

Technical Analysis

Reminder: If technical analysis worked, its practitioners would be making money doing that all day instead of trying to become notable by making or selling vide...

1 Hour Wired Documentaty about Shenzhen, the Silicon Valley of hardware

https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY...

deepfakes and the future of public opinion

The Press Motherboard writes yesterday: > We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now > A user-friendly application has resulted in an ex...

The facebook SDK is no longer loaded into every single steemit page load.

https://github.com/steemit/condenser/pull/2311/files I, for one, am happy and excited about this. Hopefully soon we can remove the Google one, too....

Announcing SteemBlockExplorer.com

Hi Steemians, I'm very excited to announce my latest project that I have been working on for the last couple of weeks. SteemBlockExplorer.com - A Steem Block Ex...

Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained by dotsarecool

One of my favorite youtube videos ever, for my favorite video game ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAHXK2wutI shorter, untechnical version: https://www.yo...

to clear up some confusion

My official statement: If you are a bigot, and you insist on making bigoted statements instead of educating yourself about why bigotry is idiotic: Please die in...

Fitness class at Steemit Festival !!!!

https://s1.postimg.org/7cgnopqve7/IMG0123.jpg Hey Steemit family, Exciting news! Me and @allasyummyfood launching our FITNESS class exclusive for Steemit member...

SteemFest2

Steemfest is upon us! If you feed me a pastel de nata, I will tell you a secret! Whoever feeds me the best one will get a second bonus secret at the end of stee...

Hidden Structures of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets

https://youtu.be/vfteiiTfE0c...

Paperclips

http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html...

Security For Small Teams

Foreword I drafted this back in January and realized I had never posted it anywhere. Apologies in advance for any typos or lack of copyediting, I thought it mor...

New personal policy: Flagging all posts tagged `steemit` which are off-topic.

The amount of attention-seeking on this site via tag abuse is getting pretty high; I encourage you to join me in flagging anyone cross-spamming tags. Particular...

Steemit.com is experiencing a DDoS attack.

We're working on mitigating it. Stay tuned. There are lots of rumors and misinformation floating around. Don't believe everything you read. (In the meantime, ch...

Steemit Naming Contest: Codename our mobile app!

Just like last time, I'm holding a contest to pick the codename for our mobile app. On the app stores and stuff it will be known as Steemit, just as this websit...