So yesterday I read a post by @kotturinn about using the busy front end instead of the Steemit front end I have always used. I had used busy on occasion, when Steemit was under DDOS attack or otherwise slow and unusable. I was always quick to jump back onto Steemit though once it was working properly.
I have currently been using it to read and curate posts. I noticed several cool features just doing that. When upvoting I am able to see a money amount that my upvote will be worth, the slider is also easier to use. When browsing my feed, I get a list of "interesting people" which is an easy way to find a few new users whose blogs are worth browsing through. A notification button to let you know about new comments, follows, mentions, and money transfers. It also tells you your vote power, vote value, and even the exact date you joined instead of just the month. The single best thing that it has as far as browsing and curating to me, is the bookmark tab. Finally I can bookmark a post for later without having to comment on it or somehow otherwise make notation. I am certain there are many more features I have yet to discover and appreciate yet, the extras I have noticed have made getting used to something new worth it! As far as posting goes it is very similar. There is an editor bar, that starts open unlike Steemit. I doubt that most people on Steemit know about the editor tool bar just for lack of seeing and clicking it.
Learning is on thing I enjoy. I have made a goal to at least learn one new thing every day. I often ask people what they learned today. So I can steal some knowledge from them and if they ask, I can share the one thing that I learned. I used to post much more about crypto, which required me to do research and double check when other people commented with questions. When I was doing that I knew much more about blockchains, new coins, and the teams that are creating them. I want to get back to that, to exchanging information about what has become my biggest hobby.. Blockchains. SO expect that in the near future. This carries over beyond just the subject of blockchains. Anytime I aim to make a post on Steemit it requires that I do some searching, research, and exploring. All of which I learn from. Even if my posts only make 1$ of 5$, its good to make money to learn and grow as a person just by sharing the things I want to share anyways.
Obviously for a character named drpuffnstuff, 4/20 is a grande holiday. The grande holiday even. So I went out had some fun in Las Vegas. Smoking my share, watching some live music, and enjoying a weekend with some friends. Sometimes I get so caught up in the daily grind of work, bills, and the small pleasures that I forgot how nice it is to just take a break. To have nowhere that I need to be, or nothing that I have to do. All of us need to escape monotony once in a while, and I escaped mine in a hazy cloud of smoke this weekend.. and I had a blast.
Woot woot,
