The Weekly Top of Utopian showcases Staff Picks from contributions made in the past week, hand-selected by our Community Managers from across all Utopian.io categories.

This week, we’ve selected the best from bug-hunting, tutorials, video tutorials, ideas, graphics and blog categories. As always, we are grateful to our wonderful contributors for providing us with high-quality contributions and to our moderators for spotting them. We hope these examples of stellar work will inspire you to strive to appear in the next Top of Utopian.io Staff Picks collection.

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Staff Picks

comment.upvote doesn't work on some cases at Beem by Hive account@emrebeyler [bug-hunting]

Beem is a Python library dedicated for Steem developers created by Hive account@holger80. This project has been developing rapidly, and we can see updates to it made almost every day, often as a result of reports submitted to the project. One of these reports, by Hive account@emrebeyler, describes a bug in the commenting functionality. One of the methods for the Comment class did not work as expected in all cases. Any attempt to upvote a comment or a post would fail if it was not upvoted by someone else previously. Hive account@emrebeyler has written a clear report and included a demo script to reproduce the issue, pointing out the exact cause of the problem.

Total payout: 46.22 STU
Number of votes: 189

New website for Steemax by Hive account@outwork [graphics]

Steemax is a simple web-based app to help Steem users reward each other under the conditions they set. This contribution helped the project to have a cleaner interface for people to use. The work done by Hive account@outwork offered a full and functioning design, and was chosen by the both the project owner and graphics category moderators.

Total payout: 129.49 STU
Number of votes: 19

Steemblr development update 05 - Theme Editor by Hive account@snwolak [development]

Steemblr is an open source microblogging Tumblr inspired platform built on the Steem blockchain. In this detailed contribution Hive account@snwolak is back with another amazing update with a new feature that allows users to customise the look and feel of their own blog. It’s definitely worth checking out!

Total payout: 178.36 STU
Number of votes: 139

Creating RPC Server on Web Browser - part 1: Serving incomplete HTML file by Hive account@drsensor [tutorials]

Another of Hive account@drsensor’s fantastic and research-quality tutorials, it is the first part in a series about setting up an RPC server. The tutorial is written with high professionalism, great detail, animated gifs that properly illustrate the stages of the process describes. We are looking forward to learning more in the next part of the series.

Total payout: 97.56 STU
Number of votes: 103

#1 Promoting Open Source on SteemHunt - How To find OS products & Grow Your Audience by Hive account@rosatravels [blog]

This great post from Hive account@rosatravels is a detailed guide for project hunters in the open source world. She introduces the way to promote new and mostly unknown projects via Steemhunt, and includes a resource list to guide hunters in finding new projects. As an experienced project hunter, she also shares her knowledge on how to reach the right audience and build your project hunting career. This is a must-read for project hunters!

Total payout: 98.35 STU
Number of votes: 56

Intro to Rust Web Assembly with Rust's Wasm Bindgen Library by Hive account@tensor [video-tutorials]

Another excellent video tutorial from Hive account@tensor, the first in a series, gives us a beginner’s look into building a library using Rust as he digs into the various tools of the Wasm Bindgen library. The tutorial is very well paced and Hive account@tensor provides insight into each function and tool he presents, including background information and practical application throughout the entire lesson.

Total payout: 108.35 STU
Number of votes: 54

SteemPlus 2.18 - Maximum available SP for delegation is inaccurate in busy by Hive account@josephace135 [bug-hunting]

image by Hive account@steem-plus

Steem-plus is a simple browser extension for popular Steem-based apps (e.g busy.org, utopian.io, steemit.com). It provides additional features for this applications to enhance the user experience. In this contribution, Hive account@josephace135 was able to spot a bug in the steem-plus delegation functionality, causing an incorrect value to be displayed in the interface. Hive account@josephace135 provided the technical details and steps needed to reproduce the issue to ensure it was clear to the project owner and guided them toward the necessary fix.

Total payout: 43.32 STU
Number of votes: 21

Affix of Weight value, Item Quantity, Stock auto-save, Import, Open file with Inventory and Edit on Inventory by Hive account@tykee [ideas]

Inventory is a simple docket mobile application that allows users to weigh and categorise data, and data saved can be exported/saved to an external device. This post by Hive account@tykee suggests a number of necessary feature for the app that can bring a great deal of improvement to app usability. The post by Hive account@tykee is well thought out, structured and makes a lot of sense to implement.

Total payout: 51.71 STU
Number of votes: 16

Distribution of SteemPower and Reward Pool share across Bid-Bots, dApps and Communities by Hive account@crokkon [analysis]

This is another well-conducted statistical analysis on the usage of bid-bots, dApps and other communities on the steem blockchain, studying the distribution of active Steem Power on the platform. This contribution gives an insightful overview of the impact of these services on reward allocations on the blockchain.

Total payout: 152.60 STU
Number of votes: 89

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Utopian.io Post Statistics

The staff picked contributions are only a small (but exceptional) example of the mass of contributions reviewed and rewarded by Utopian.io.

Overall, the last week saw a total of 252 posts, with 179 of them rewarded through an upvote by Hive account@utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 11033.20 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 457.679 STU, with a total of 97 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was DBlog.io - Decentralized Blogging Platform - Backend improvement, with no less than 9 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 61.64 STU.

Category Statistics

Category	Reviewed	Rewarded	Total rewards	Top contributor
bug-hunting	26	14	327.94 STU	Hive account@mightypanda
graphics	43	28	1568.99 STU	Hive account@zuur
development	49	40	3284.35 STU	Hive account@mkt
translations	73	56	3574.02 STU	Hive account@robertbira
video-tutorials	4	4	331.28 STU	Hive account@tensor
blog	11	9	549.64 STU	Hive account@rosatravels
analysis	5	4	376.20 STU	Hive account@lokomotion
ideas	10	3	81.99 STU	Hive account@alejandrofz
copywriting	1	1	53.08 STU	Hive account@harry-heightz
tutorials	25	16	806.95 STU	Hive account@steempytutorials
documentation	1	1	33.75 STU	Hive account@kit.andres