Hello !
Well after speaking with 
This initiative is from @Anomadsoul, the idea is to introduce or re-introduce yourself since this is a new chain and I guess it can't hurt to re-introduce yourself. My previous introduction post dates from 2017 so I figured it can't hurt to update things a bit.
So hey, I'm howo, or Martin, I'm a software engineer working mostly on blockchain technologies. I've spent most of my life programming various stuff. I think my favorite subjects are automation, blockchain and things machine learning (buzzword much ?)
I am currently living in Paris, trying to survive the pandemic, but that's another subject.
If you've never seen me at steemfest 3 or 4, here's picture of me at the https://spaceport-norway.com/ conference.
I've spent the last three years on STEEM creating various apps here and there. You may know me for my work on 
If you're curious to see how it looks like, you can find out here : https://joythewanderer.com/vietnamese-pancakes-in-hanoi-and-my-remarks-for-this-restaurant
we think the potential is huge it's kind of a trojan horse to get hive to mainstream adoption, the more blogs we have with the comment section, the more people will get exposed to hive just by looking at the comments and seeing payouts etc. So the more blogs we emboard, the more eyes you get on hive and the more people are likely to use steempress etc. It's kind of a snowball effect. But in order for that to work, we want the plugin to be perfect and we don't feel it's quite ready yet, some things still need to be improve on hive like emboarding, complexity or our value proposition (if you emboard people by saying "come you'll earn money" you don't emboard users who are here to stay but rather people who just want to earn and dump).
Anyways, I did a lot of tooling here and there, there was a severe lack of documentation on how to code on steem/hive at first so I took it upon myself to create as much as I could with my https://github.com/drov0/steemsnippets repository. Right now it's a bit abandoned because better alternatives have come up, but I still update it now and then :)
More recently thanks to the sps I got to spend time on some projects, like https://downvotecontrol.com, a tool to automate downvotes. I believe it was an important step alongside free downvotes to heavily reduce bidbot use during hard fork 21.
I then spent a significant amount of time bathing in the SMT code, testing it, breaking it a few times and fixing it when the fix was simple enough.
And even more recently, I have actually started to contribute to the core code, I wrote a good chunk of the hard fork 23 which birthed hive. It's really interesting, I intend to continue to contribute to it. There will be a lot happening hive core in the next months, we have a lot more devs than before working on it, so now is the best time to submit the ideas that you have for hive core.
That's all about me, you can catch me on the chain or on my blog : https://brokencode.io :)
