When you get started with programming one of the first obstacles is picking a language. A mistake beginners often make is asking experienced developers where they should start: The truth is it doesn't

In The steemit curation nightmare: plagarism, spam bots, ghost profiles and cross-posting I listed some reasons why I think curation is difficult on steemit. That post was focused purely on the content

Just over a year ago I wrote a little Python program for comparing GPS tracks and wrote about it on my website. It uses the Needleman-Wunsch alignment algorithm, more commonly used to align DNA and protein

I've only been a member of the steemit community for a few days and I've already noticed a big issue: curation. There are a few problems that make curation difficult, and without guidance this is going

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When writing a post there's a tick box in the bottom right called "Upvote post" that is ticked by default. Why is it there? It's a strange concept to upvote my own post, but I'm aware that this

The amount of pressure that software engineers put on themselves is monstrous. Our view of world as a finite, discernible system causes us to aim for nothing less than perfection. With such high expectations,

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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