Previous Parts: 1 Chase shouldered his way through the morning crowd. Beads of sweat ran down the side of his head, the cavern humidity worse than usual because of the number of people crammed into such

It's Sunday morning and you've just woken up. After eating a delicious blini for breakfast you take a shower and get dressed. When you go to brush your teeth, however, you realise that you're out of

I was recently in the Dordogne region of France and was stunned, not only at how many stars I could see, but that I could clearly make out the milky way with my naked eye streaking across the sky above

In my previous article I gave advice for those getting started with programming, the conclusion being: you learn by doing. In this post I want to focus on three ways on how to get better. 1. Work to failure

The most common question that people ask when they want to learn programming is: how do I get started? Some think this is the wrong question to ask, but it's understandable. The field is huge and can be

You're at a summer camp and have made some friends on your first day. You get along with three people particularly well: they are nice, friendly, and one you find very attractive. On the second day you

The amount of pressure we put ourselves under when we aim for perfection can be monstrous. With such high expectations, it's no wonder we end up procrastinating, struggling to find a place to start.

Working in an open plan office is a nightmare. I can't stand it. Agilists, on the other hand, advocate it as an environment that improves collaboration. Even outside of software development someone is

You're playing a game with friends that involves flipping a coin: if it lands on heads you have to perform a dare, but if it lands on tails, you get to choose a friend to perform a dare. After ten minutes

The doors burst open as a young woman wearing blue jeans and a black leather jacket flies out onto the asphalt. Lying on the ground she shoots a look at the doors she just crashed through, noticing a crack

In the post 'when do whales upvote?' I looked at the distribution of upvotes by whales. It showed a clear difference between whales and whale bots, and also which whales are more active up-voters. At the

It's Saturday evening and you don't have any plans, so you decide to watch a film at the cinema. Your friends have been raving about a film they saw, and you want to know what the fuss is about. You head

On behalf of the #SteemianFoodNetwork I'm proud to present my summer recipe: Ice Ice Baby - Thai ice tea! In my first ever post on steemit I wrote about a beautiful Thai island called Koh Chang. We stayed

Steemit has a love/hate relationship with bots. There are good bots like @cheetah that try to make steemit more enjoyable for everyone, and evil bots like @rickydevil that downvotes en masse. NOTE: I DON'T

Ever wondered when whales are upvoting? I was wondering the same thing. I thought: perhaps some times are better to post than others. So I wrote a program in Python to plot the upvote times for July 2016

You're in the supermarket doing your weekly food shopping and you stop by the meat section. You're planning to make a delicious spaghetti bolognese and you need some minced beef for the recipe. There are

On behalf of the SteemianFoodNetwork I'm proud to present BURN BABY BURN! CURRY INFERNO! - Romantic Chicken Jalfrezi! I met my girlfriend at a language school in Spain eleven years ago. When she came to

Trending at the top of the front-page are two articles that have a combined reward of $27,951.88 after only 10 hours. With five hours remaining, I imagine this number to go up substantially. Before I get

I've been using my Garmin Forerunner 210 to record my running progress. Like many gadgets it has a built in GPS receiver, allowing the watch to not only record how long my run is, but also where I run.

You've been a smoker for years. You started because your friends smoked; you couldn't resist the peer pressure. Now you're smoking at least one pack a day, sometimes two. Recently your health has taken