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

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Staff Picks

This week we feature outstanding development contributions, informative video tutorials, a bug not easily discovered and two interesting analyses, one of which studies Steem blockchain rewards and their form. These are just some of the best contributions our Community Managers spotted on Utopian.io during the week.

Bug Report: Busy.org overwriting comment json_metadata by Hive account@mkt [bug-hunting]

mkt

Hive account@mkt has detected that Busy.org overwrites the comments json_metadata with one of its own metadata. This has an effect on other applications using the Steemit json_metadata eg. the-magic-frog. To fix this, Hive account@mkt proposes a fix in the form of a small pull request. Even though the bug may be considered minor and has escaped the eyes of other developers, it was presented in a very good format, earning it a Staff Pick status.

Total payout: 38.21 STU
Number of votes: 33

- picked by Hive account@sachincool

Hitchhiker's Guide to Substratum Node on Raspberry Pi by Hive account@microoo [tutorials]

microo

An elegantly and cohesively written tutorial pertaining to substratum nodes on Raspberry Pi. This tutorial does a great job highlighting all components and all steps, in a very detailed and comprehensive manner, with relevant commands and screenshots. Well done!

Total payout: 80.34 STU
Number of votes: 249

- picked by Hive account@mcfarhat

The Fundamentals of Zones, Microtasks and Event Loops in the Dart Programming Language - Dart Tutorial Part 3 by Hive account@tensor [video-tutorials]

dart

This is another one of Hive account@tensor’s highly informative video tutorials. In this tutorial he covers concepts such as Zones in Dart, Microtasks, Event Queues and Microtask Queues. From an educational standpoint, Hive account@tensor also asks learners to consider what the code should do before they run it. This is an excellent practice as it gets learners to have mental imagery of what they expect to happen before it happens. This is higher order cognition and a great benefit to learners.

Total payout: 100.89 STU
Number of votes: 67

- picked by Hive account@buckydurddle

Release: QUIQQER 1.1 is here by Hive account@pcsg-dev [blog]

quiqqer

QUIQQER is a management system and the post presents an official release news which brings lots of new features, tweaks and fixes for users and administrators. The team, Hive account@pcsg-dev, have managed to publish an excellent summary of changes, which will work as a foundation point for future posts and development.

Total payout: 82.30 STU
Number of votes: 60

- picked by Hive account@espoem

Utopian.io: a steady stream of new projects supported! Repository analysis March-May 2018 by Hive account@crokkon [analysis]

crokkon_analysis

The author (Hive account@crokkon) looked into the projects that Utopian has supported from the date Utopian Rules Update #11 was applied to the end of the previous month. He also looked into how many of the contributions were first to a project. What made the analysis stand out were the perfectly laid out graphs and the well positioned descriptions, with one chart surprising the Community Manager.

Total payout: 150.81 STU
Number of votes: 79

- picked by Hive account@eastmael

[Steemhunt] Most asked questions from Steemhunt Newbies. by Hive account@jayplayco [blog]

steemhunt

The author (Hive account@jayplayco) keeps us updated with the latest news from the Steemhunt project. Steemhunt is an active project with continuously-occurring updates. This makes it challenging to choose the important ones before the information is dated.

Hive account@jayplayco has been a member of the moderation team and long before that he was actively engaged in the community. It is encouraging to see authors like him, who have found their enthusiasm for a project and helped it grow by writing supplementary materials and articles.

Total payout: 84.09 STU
Number of votes: 25

- picked by Hive account@espoem

[Task Request on beginr] Documentation for each function friendly to R beginners by Hive account@dapeng [task-documentation]

This task request for documentation which contains functions that are friendly to R beginners is an exceptional example of what a good documentation task request contains.

Total payout: 16.96 STU
Number of votes: 30

- picked by Hive account@ms10398

Analysis of the evolution of rewards differentiated by tokens by Hive account@lokomotion [analysis]

In this contribution, Hive account@lokomotion looked into the evolution of the rewards, split by the different STEEM tokens. He started with a well-thought infographic using a plumbing system and an explanation of each of the tokens. What made this contribution stand out was how the author split and labelled the evolution of the total rewarded tokens per month and followed these with explanations.

Finally, he looked into the most rewarded accounts and grouped them into yellow (focused on accumulating STEEM Power), purple (focused on accumulating SBDs), and green (VESTS and SBDs are almost equal) accounts.

Total payout: 139.77 STU
Number of votes: 95

- picked by Hive account@eastmael

Development Update #4: Write New Post, Trending Posts and Upvote Post by Hive account@jrawsthorne [development]

With his 4th development update of his Steem TV show and movie application, Hive account@jrawsthorne once again delivers a high quality contribution. In his post he describes the great amount of work he has done, which added some very important features, bringing us even closer to a full release.

Total payout: 159.39 STU
Number of votes: 30

- picked by Hive account@amosbastian

Introducing steemconnect4j by Hive account@hapramp [development]

steemconnect4j

SteemConnect is widely used in applications built on the Steem blockchain and because of this there are already quite a few libraries built for it in programming languages such as Python and JavaScript. Thanks to Hive account@hapramp (and Hive account@bxute) steemconnect4j finally gives the Java lovers amongst us a convenient way to use SteemConnect in their applications as well! They have even provided an example project showing you how to use it!

Total payout: 60.64 STU
Number of votes: 23

- picked by Hive account@amosbastian

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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 263 posts, with 162 of them rewarded through an upvote by Hive account@utopian-io.
In total, Utopian.io distributed an approximate of 10645.58 STU to contributors.
The highest payout seen on any Utopian.io contribution this week was 715.767 STU, with a total of 237 votes received from the community.
The contribution that attracted the most engagement was Particle physics @ utopian-io - Objects isolation, histogramming and a first task request, with no less than 24 comments in its comment threads.
The average vote given by Utopian.io was worth 65.71 STU.

Category Statistics

Category	Reviewed	Rewarded	Total rewards	Top contributor
analysis	7	5	545.89 STU	Hive account@jingis07
documentation	1	1	61.31 STU	Hive account@antonchanning
graphics	103	59	4170.67 STU	Hive account@tobaloidee
development	50	43	3743.88 STU	Hive account@dapeng
ideas	13	3	59.33 STU	Hive account@rufans
bug-hunting	38	17	308.52 STU	Hive account@mightypanda
tutorials	30	18	846.42 STU	Hive account@pckurdu
video-tutorials	4	2	110.76 STU	Hive account@tensor
social	2	2	79.11 STU	Hive account@frankremmy
blog	5	4	624.71 STU	Hive account@pcsg-dev
copywriting	1	1	55.42 STU	Hive account@order4adwriter