Myself and @antonchanning decided to check out Christmas at the Botanics in Edinburgh this year. We bought our tickets for the last weekend of November. Weather turned out dry and frosty, perfect for an

November has a reputation for being really cold and dull but if you walk in nature with an attentive eye you will spot some real beauty. I love to look at small details, like the fluffy hair on this fruit.

@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,

In this blog, I will share with you my experience of installing Linux for the first time. The process was not as difficult as I expected but it involved a learning curve. I have used Linux for 10 years

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

A snapshot from British reality through the eyes of a non-binary Pole thrown under the Brexit bus and living in hope of Independent Scotland. Somewhere in Scotland I grab my backpack and leave my home.

Come meet Utopian.io! We are excited to announce the launch the dates for the first Utopian (mini)Fest, the MINI one! Following an invitation by the team at @steemstem to join their meetup at VIRGO in

Got CSS skills? Good at choosing a colour scheme? Then this is the contest for you! Unlike many content management systems, BlockPress enjoys a seperation of layout theme from colour palette. Palettes

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

Details As BlockPress is prepared for beta release, the time came to ensure the documentation was comprehensive and up to date. Themes and palettes Our wiki now has a list of both themes and palettes.

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

I was on a holiday last week and my family visited so we wanted to entertain them. I decided to book a boat cruise on board the Dolphin Spirit. It's a pleasure cruiser that advertises itself as a good

In my previous blog, I described my visit to Glen Ord Distillery. I took some photos on my way there and want to share them with you. The distillery is the only tourist attraction in this village, with

Glen Ord Distillery Glen Ord Distillery is located in the Muir of Ord village and it produces Singleton Whisky for Asian export. This means that the only place in Europe that you can taste this whisky

New Features Javascript support for themes This new feature means that theme creators no longer need to embed their scripts in the HTML. Having separate javascript files in the theme folder makes the structure

New Features Tags and Mentions The BlockPress Steem module allowed links on tags in the profile description and now I enabled this feature in posts and comments. I decided to also add links to mentions

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