zcgolf16

My hiatus from steemit/chainBB

Hello all, I realize that I haven't posted anything on the Steem blockchain in months now. Life has been very busy (in a good way)! I apologize for my absence a...

Steem-python and piston Tutorial Series: #1 - A simple yet powerful voting bot.

Hello all, This is the first installment in a new tutorial series that will familiarize programming beginners with the steem-python and piston libraries and how...

My welcome bot experiment today was a success!

Today, I ran a simple "welcome bot" that I wrote in python to interact with new users in the introduction, introduceyourself and introducemyself tags and provid...

My new welcome bot!

You may have noticed my little welcome bot leaving comments on posts with the introduction, introduceyourself and introducemyself tags last night and this morni...

I am back from my break from steem and coding!

For the last week and a half, I have been relatively inactive on steemit and ChainBB, and I have not made any progress on any of my projects that I'm currently ...

steem-python: Cancel withdrawal from vesting?

I am almost finished with a beta version of my Python GUI Wallet for STEEM. I have a couple more functions left to add, one of which is cancelling a power down....

Help with steem-python's TransactionBuilder?

I am currently working on a soft GUI wallet (keys are not stored) using python. I am working with steem-python's TransactionBuilder and I am having some trouble...

steem-alerts (Simple STEEM price text alerts) - version 1.2 (change log)

I have completed yet another update to my STEEM price text alert program, steem-alerts. I apologize for not making any changes yesterday, I had made some but it...

steem-alerts (Simple STEEM price text alerts) - version 1.1 (change log, MAJOR CHANGES)

I have finished my first update to steem-alerts today. I resolved both of the issues that I created on GitHub (https://github.com/ZachC16/steem-alerts) in this ...

[Project Announcement] steem-alerts - Simple STEEM price text alerts

I have finished another little project for STEEM. This script will allow you to set a price target and will send you a text when STEEM's price drops to or rises...

Derive account name from given WIF key using steem-python module?

Hello developers, I am working on a soft GUI wallet using python, and I was wondering if someone could explain to me how to derive an account name from a WIF ke...

steemticker-osx (A simple STEEM price ticker for OSX toolbar) - version 1.4 (change log, MAJOR CHANGES)

I have made another big update to steemticker-osx. I have checked off everything on my to-do list of major updates and changes at this point, and my only update...

Can someone help me with Steem API calls in Python?

Hello developers, I have some features that I want to add to my OSX toolbar STEEM price ticker, steemticker-osx. I hope to utilize the Steem API to achieve the ...

steemticker-osx (A simple STEEM price ticker for OSX toolbar) - version 1.3a (change log, MAJOR CHANGES)

I have made some more major changes to steemticker-osx today. Now that my school term is out these daily updates are very easy to do due to my abundance of time...

steemticker-osx (A simple STEEM price ticker for OSX toolbar) - version 1.2a released (change log)

I have made a fairly significant change to my OSX toolbar app, steemticker-osx. Now, when you setup your portfolio, the amount of STEEM you input will be saved ...

I'm going To Tip a Minnow or 10 - Encouraging End-User Retention.

                 @skyochica came to me last night to ask if I would help fi...

steemticker-osx (A simple STEEM price ticker for OSX toolbar) - version 1.2 released (change log)

I have made some significant updates to my python3-built OSX toolbar app: steemticker-osx. I have added a portfolio feature so users can input their STEEM balan...

[Project Announcement] steemticker-osx - A simple STEEM price ticker for OSX toolbar

I have finished my first little project for the STEEM community. It is for mac users to easily stay up to date on the price of STEEM in their toolbar. The price...

Any small projects for a programming novice to take on?

Hello Steem Developers, I am a novice when it comes to programming... I'm fairly good at python but not too much else. I'm just wondering if there are any small...

No normal blog post today, but here's this...

I am two days away from the beginning of my final exams (and studying like crazy!), so there will be no "regularly scheduled programming" today. But I just want...