Just some thoughts on the soft fork exercised by the current set of witnesses. Although, I am not a fan of the purchase of the Steemit stake by TRON, I don't necessarily think this fork was the right approach

I like mountains. I like the challenge that they represent. I love miles of rigorous hiking over boulders and through muddy streams and thick brush to get to the top of a beautiful mountain vista. Sure,

When it comes to internet privacy, it is a lot easier to talk the talk than walk the walk. Most people that have the power to influence or change things end up doing very little to remedy the issues outside

I've seen people refer to blockchain or even Steem as "Web 3.0" as if we are simply waiting for public opinion to catch up to the stellar technology that has been prepared for them. And this

As someone who does software engineering as a profession, there are two things that make the engineering process "uncomfortable". They are uncertainty and complexity. Uncertainty will always

Something I have been struggling with recently in the conflict between two forces. One being the inner creative desiring to design, innovate, and create novel ideas, concepts, and products. The other being

It's very tempting to say that all documentation sucks, but as a developer I get that writing documentation isn't the most glorious thing in the world. But as someone who often didn't write the code,

There's something beautiful about the desert. A place where life struggles to exist. There is no excess energy. All that exists, exists in conservation mode. The unforgiving sunbeams seek to evaporate

I was reading this article the other day about some exploits and issues that were found in updates that were recently made to the Windows 10 operating system. I didn't really care too much about the article

The team was probably growing a little unfocused. A few players had left in the weeks prior and there was a long and hard campaign ahead. They were definitely the underdogs here, but that hadn't stopped

I'm really looking forward to this four day weekend I have coming up. I've been feeling pretty burnt out recently. I've had a of opportunity to make decisions. I've also been fortunate enough to make a

FUD is good, at least somebody cares enough to hate you. A specter is haunting this blockchain--the specter of stagnation. While the voices inside continue to preach brighter pastures, the voices from

I wrote a post a couple of years called Freedom is Overrated that I personally didn't think was very well written, but those provocative titles sure get those clicks. The general idea still sticks, but

Wait, what were we talking about?

Modern media today runs on the subscription model. Consumers pay for access to content from creators. The subscription model acts as a way for platforms to raise money to pay their creators. It also allows

Youtube posted an interesting article on their official blog entitled Our Ongoing Work To Tackle Hate which listed four key areas or "pillars" that that Youtube was addressing in order to

I can't say I really like eggs without solid whites. The same thing can be said about economic principles like scarcity. Raw scarcity means nothing and under-cooked scarcity clearly could use a couple

For those unfamiliar with my large catalog of bot hate, feel free to skim this article on bidding bots I wrote more than a year ago. Back then my opinion was obviously worth something as I made some fat

My feed today was extra boring. Seems like all anyone wanted to do was talk about the same thing. Maybe I lack a adequate set of creators that I follow that create interesting content. So I dove into the

You just wandering around for food and you see this fat piece of cheese just sitting on top of that wooden board ripe for the taking. You crawl towards the wooden board which appears to hold some strange