As always, our community of contributors is hard at work authoring innovative and important contributions to open source projects on and off the Steem blockchain. This week, we’ve chosen to showcase an interesting tutorial series, a new app for publishing to the blockchain and other contributions from various categories that were deemed worthy of an especially high reward.

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Staff Picks

Creating RPC Server on Web Browser - part 2: Listen to browser Tab activity on the server side by Hive account@drsensor [tutorials]

This post is an addition to an ongoing tutorial series by Hive account@drsensor for his project on Creating an RPC server on node.js. In this second part, Hive account@drsensor highlights how to allow listening to browser tab activity, sending said activity as beacon data and utilizing it between 2 layers of abstraction, as well as creating webhooks using both koa-router and koa-body.

The tutorial is quite extensive, well written and well-documented in terms of process, screenshots and illustrations. Limitations are also properly highlighted towards the end. The tutorial provides a clear path towards the progress of the series.

Total payout: 96.78 STU
Number of votes: 85

Beem: Unable to get replies to an account via discussions.Replies_by_last_update by Hive account@stmdev [bug-hunting]

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Beem is an unofficial easy-to-use Python wrapper (library) for Steem developed by Hive account@holger80, with a great set of advantages like thorough unit tests, more complete implementation, Steemconnect integration etc. It is very popular and many developers use it in their projects. Hive account@stmdev found that one of the methods, discussions.Replies_by_last_update(), could not be used to get list of last replies from a given author. Specifically, it provided false information. This was due to using start_author instead of start_parent_author in the rpc call. He wrote an excellent report with demo scripts to prove his bug.

His fix was merged https://github.com/holgern/beem/pull/53

Total payout: 42.30 STU
Number of votes: 52

Steeditor development update: communities, new core, and new editor by Hive account@jakipatryk [development]

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Steeditor is an amazing Steem post editor by Hive account@jakipatryk, with all the advanced options you could ever need! Setting beneficiaries or custom JSON metadata has never been easier, and it even includes the templates for Utopian contributions as well - if you aren’t using it already then you should definitely check it out!

Total payout: 179.64 STU
Number of votes: 184

Steem White Paper Translation #2 (appr. 1542 words) by Hive account@laylahsophia [translations]

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A translation staff pick contributed by Hive account@laylahsophia, translating a portion of Steem White Paper.

This German translator has done excellent work in her translation. She translated a high volume of 1,542 words, beyond our expectations from a translation contribution. Even with such a high volume of words, she proved her excellent skill in translating difficult texts with high accuracy.

Total payout: 123.66 STU
Number of votes: 46

FreeCAD - Greek Translation (Part 4 - approximately 1240 words) by Hive account@lordneroo [translations]

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FreeCAD is a customizable parametric 3D CAD modeler aimed at real life product design and mechanical engineering. Due to its accessibility to Python programming, it offers a wider range of use cases on the architecture and general engineering fields.

When talking about CAD modelers it’s inevitable to think in expensive proprietary software as the AutoDesk suite. However, there are viable and ever evolving open source alternatives, which are by far lead by FreeCAD. A cornerstone of open source usage is the capacity to spread it widely across potential users in a way that can satisfy their needs completely. Therefore constant and highly accurate internationalization efforts such as Hive account@lordneroo’s are invaluable for the FOSS community. His translation was done with strict accuracy standards based on engineering-oriented vocabulary.

Total payout: 3.00 STU (Not voted by Utopian yet)
Number of votes: 48

New logo to the app BIGDIALER by Hive account@ggabogarcia [graphics]

Big Dialer is a very helpful app for people with visual or mental disabilities. Hive account@ggabogarcia created a very nice symbol for them. It’s a nice play on the symbols for heart, B and phone. Perfect discovery, construction and presentation make this work stand out.

Total payout: 102.428 STU
Number of votes: 177

SteemApp 2.0 here we go - iOS Released to the App Store by Hive account@yuriks2000 [blog]

One of our VIPO club members, Hive account@yuriks2000, announced a new update for SteemApp-iOS, an application for writing Steem posts on iOS mobile devices. Thanks to critical changes in UI and functionality, it's now possible to browse the feed on a smooth interface. If you wish to give it a try, you can find the app in the AppStore.

Considering the proper usage of sections and supportive visuals for each feature in the update, including GIFs, it's obvious that the post does the presentation part well. It's a good example of a blog post about project updates.

Total payout: 183.33 STU
Number of votes: 66

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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 216 posts, with 135 of them rewarded through an upvote by Hive account@utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 7810.95 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 433.388 STU, with a total of 314 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was DBlog.io - Decentralized Blogging Platform - Frontend and Backend improvement, with no less than 14 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 57.86 STU.

Category Statistics

Category	Reviewed	Rewarded	Total rewards	Top contributor
video-tutorials	5	5	209.48 STU	Hive account@official-hord
ideas	11	2	43.52 STU	Hive account@tykee
blog	8	7	243.35 STU	Hive account@to-the-sun
bug-hunting	23	12	277.19 STU	Hive account@stmdev
analysis	6	4	288.52 STU	Hive account@abh12345
graphics	36	24	1527.91 STU	Hive account@zuur
development	34	22	1875.56 STU	Hive account@luschn
translations	65	44	2750.71 STU	Hive account@samhamou
tutorials	16	9	472.26 STU	Hive account@onepice
social	3	2	41.86 STU	Hive account@siersod
copywriting	1	1	62.87 STU	Hive account@harry-heightz