@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 prize possessions, and Iron Maiden CD with

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 come accross, some more helpful than others.

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 largely have kept my feelings to myself. However,

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 with spirits because it can be more fun.

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 had disappeared without notice and if anyone

Part of the power of BlockPress lies in its extensibility. Writing a module is fairly straight forward, only a few simple rules need to be followed. In order to reveal this simplicity ready for our beta

Microsoft bought Github. What Now? To quote the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, my first though is DON'T PANIC. It is true that MicroSoft have a long history of buying decent things and slowly destroying

Is it just me? Or is steemit.com inaccessible right now due to an invalid ssl certificate? Asking via #zappl. #steemit.

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 limitations, in that it can only really deliver

Why would you use BlockPress? BlockPress is a themeable front-end coded content management system, and this has its limitations. Since content loads using javascript and jquery functions, it doesn't lend

As BlockPress nears a release candidate for initial beta launch, it has become a powerful and versatile piece of software for potential theme creators. @dana-varahi has developed three great themes, and

New Features Permlink support One of the challenges in building a functioning AJAX application is the problem of permanent links. Changing the content displayed on the page is one thing, but if you do

For how long can Bitcoins remain number one? I've been looking at the market dominance chart on coinmarketcap, and noticed something that might not be immediately obvious from simply looking at tables

New Features Whilst @dana-varahi was making a range of improvements to BlockPress, I was working on several improvements of my own. All my improvements focused on improving how BlockPress displays a steem

I'm making this test post because @dana-varahi is developing a new feature on BlockPress for handling how a post listing looks with and without thumbnail images. This new feature will automatically use

EOS approaches all time high verses BTC Last week was an exciting week for EOS. EOS first claimed the number 5 spot in terms of marketcap 11 days ago, but after a brief fight with Litecoin sank back into

Details Recently we added custom configuration support to BlockPress, so you can configure your site and not have changes overwritten by upgrades. Yesterday I got around to writing instructions for how

New features Display of nested comments beneath a steem post BlockPress now also displays the comments when viewing a post. Obviously for BlockPress to become a fully functional blog, this feature is pretty

Omoyele back in 2011 Did you know that a Nigerian presidential candidate is accepting bitcoin to help fund their campaign? No, neither did I until today. But it looks like journalist Omoyele Sowore, founder

I have seen people claim it is and I've seen people argue that it is not. So who is right? First we have to clarify what is meant by the term 'gift economy'. It seems pointless to argue about something