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That Time
By: Paul Mulliner
Tags: Love, Life, Self, Poetry, Mindfulness

As moments of our life drift by,

sudden intuitions

of something hidden,

an intelligence, perhaps,

throughout the Universe,

a light unseen by our eyes

shining deep into our heart

bringing inspiration

to brighten up our day,

an unheard sound

that slips suddenly away

but shows the cosmic

always present

in the everyday.

Like music

becoming visible

as biochemistry,

cosmic poetry

writes itself

into appearance

as the visible Universe,

bringing all life and art

into being

as it endlessly emerges,

dissolves and flows

into the slipstream of the moment,

a boundless river of intelligence

flowing into appearance

as human beings.

And feelings of regret

for things not done,

things not said,

moments never shared,

are only shadows in a dream,

lost echoes of the sound

of whispers in the wind.

Seeing and living

happen only now,

while now exists,

but as I look up at the stars

and think of you,

I find memories

of a long-forgotten time

when you touched my heart.

That time on the beach.
Detailed TRON SR Rewards Distribution Plan from BitGuild
Tags: Trx, Airdrop, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Detailed TRON SR Rewards Distribution Plan from BitGuild

We lay out exactly how we’ll be dishing out the 115% TRX rewards to our voters!

We’re absolutely thrilled with the overwhelming amount of support we’ve received from the community since announcing our TRON Super Representative candidacy just a few days ago. In less than 48 hours, not only did we reach SR status, but we’ve landed firmly in the top 5 out of the 27 available slots.

We couldn’t have done it without those of you who voted for us — Thank you!

Reward Distribution Details

Block production rewards are calculated every cycle (6 hours). After 4 cycles (24 hours), 115% of our block production rewards (in TRX) will be distributed back to our voters based on the percentage of their votes cast for BitGuild compared to the total number of votes cast for BitGuild.

In addition, BitGuild will be distributing 115% of candidate rewards (115,200 TRX per 6-hour cycle distributed to the top 127 SR candidates, based on the percentage of votes they command) to voters as well. These rewards will be distributed together with block production rewards.

What does that mean?

For example, if BitGuild had 200,000,000 total votes, a user who voted 200,000 TRX would make up 0.1% (200,000/200,000,000) of the total vote, therefore earning a reward of:

6 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds / 3 second blocks / 27 SRs * 32 TRX reward = 8,533 TRX cycle reward * 0.1% * 115% = 9.813 TRX.

If BitGuild had a total of 2% of the total candidate votes, the voter would earn an additional reward of:

115,200 TRX candidate reward * 2% = 2300 TRX * 0.1% * 115% = 2.645 TRX.

In total, the voter would earn 12.458 TRX per voting cycle. Assuming these parameters don’t change on the user side, after 4 voting cycles (1 day), 49.832 TRX would be automatically sent to the voter’s wallet.

When are you distributing?

Rewards will be distributed daily between 2:00–2:30 A.M. UTC.

The first reward distribution will take place on Saturday, September 22nd.

Do you want to participate? If you don’t know where to start, you can check out our guide — otherwise, head directly to www.tronscan.org/#/votes!
To My Parents
By: Thomas Gaudex
Tags: Love, Illness, Grief, Life, Family

She is so beautiful in her white dress that she looks like a princess. Seeing her slim, slender silhouette, her sparkling smile, and her fine blonde hair, I quickly realized why my father said yes to her in 1978. No one would have said no. Absolutely no one.

He is standing a little further to the right in the photo, next to other family members, a cousin, and some of my grandparents. I immediately notice his brown hair and his perfectly trimmed beard, black as obsidian. He is very handsome too, with deep black eyes, smiling like my mother. I see a gold ring around the ring finger of his left hand. The memory of a beautiful spring day, when he was thirty years old and that she made such an important move.

I can no longer keep moving, overwhelmed by emotion. I grab the polaroids one by one on my father’s desk and scroll them continuously in front of my eyes, which are beginning to get wet. My hypersensitivity is playing a trick on me again. I’ve never seen these pictures of my parents, and as I look at them I try to hear what their hearts are saying to each other. They must be about the same age as I am today. These are not pictures of their wedding, but simple and joyful family times.

Originally, I had gone to my father’s office looking for two batteries to bring to life the interactive book that my five-year-old niece had just unwrapped in a state of excitement at the foot of the Christmas tree. I never thought I would stumble upon these images and suddenly be teleported back to the happiest years of my dear parents.

They are beautiful, incredibly beautiful, everything is perfect and I feel like crying. But I’m holding myself back, it’s Christmas after all, and my niece needs me. My mother pushes the door of the little room and asks me if I’ve succeeded in my mission to find the batteries. She pulls the stacks out of a drawer, gives them to me and we share a few words about the photos. Then she leaves the room without noticing the state I’m in.

I stay there for a few more minutes, looking at the photos again and hoping they come to life. I want to go back in time. I want to see them move, I want to see them play, I want to see them smile and laugh, I want to see them kiss, I want to see them hug, I want to see them love and desire each other.

Please help me.

I end up joining my parents, my sister, her partner, and my three nieces who are laughing in the living room. I have to get back to my life, to our lives, and to the damn present moment that I have such a hard time living with.
How to Version Your Docker Images
By: Travis Reeder
Tags: Docker, DevOps

How to Version Your Docker Images

There are a thousand ways to version Docker images — here is a simple one

While there are probably a thousand ways to version your Docker images, I am going to show you a very simple way, using methods that have become quite common. It will ensure your image’s versions match your Git version tags, so you know exactly which code is inside the image.

UPDATE: A more recent article I wrote about versioning is available here.

This tutorial assumes you already have a Dockerfile that builds your image.

Version File

First, create a VERSION file with nothing in it but the version numbers:

0.0.1

You want to store this VERSION file in the image for completeness (and because your program can use it to display the version), so add the following to your Dockerfile:

ADD VERSION .

That will add the VERSION file to your WORKDIR.

Build script

If you don’t already have a build script, create one and call it build.sh. The simplest form of this is just to run your docker build:

set -ex # SET THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES

# docker hub username

USERNAME=treeder

# image name

IMAGE=helloworld docker build -t $USERNAME/$IMAGE:latest .

You may require some extra build steps there, so go ahead and add them. Or you may have your own build script, in which case you can ignore this script and just change the line in the script below to run your build. Be sure to chmod a+x ./build.sh so you can run it.

Release script

Now, let’s create a simple release script called release.sh that will bump the version, run the build script, set git tags, push tags to GitHub, build the image, and finally push the image to Docker Hub. You can copy and paste the script below — just make sure to change the values at the top to match your Docker Hub information:

set -ex # SET THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES

# docker hub username

USERNAME=treeder

# image name

IMAGE=helloworld # ensure we're up to date

git pull # bump version

docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/app treeder/bump patch

version=`cat VERSION`

echo "version: $version" # run build

./build.sh # tag it

git add -A

git commit -m "version $version"

git tag -a "$version" -m "version $version"

git push

git push --tags docker tag $USERNAME/$IMAGE:latest $USERNAME/$IMAGE:$version # push it

docker push $USERNAME/$IMAGE:latest

docker push $USERNAME/$IMAGE:$version

Make it executable with chmod a+x ./release.sh then run it with ./release.sh .

There you have it. Every time you do a release, simply run ./release.sh and you will have nicely versioned images that match up with your source code!
About Zero Equals False
By: Marty Jacobs
Tags: Developer, Software Development, Blog, Coding, About

Welcome to the Zero Equals False — Medium Publication.

Zero Equals False is known for providing insights into advanced technologies and concepts related to Software Development.

At Zero Equals False, we really enjoy diving into complex topics and sharing only the most valuable findings with our readers.

Zero Equals False likes to report on world-class software development tools, trends, techniques, resources, career tips, and industry events. As we know technology moves fast, and so do we.

We are lucky enough to have some extremely talented guests that stop by and share their perspective and journey too!
聽蛙講，跟蛙走：TEDxTaipei Adventure ft. 蛙類專家楊懿如
By: Hazel Wei
Tags: Experience, Education, Adventure, Tedx

in In Fitness And In Health
The Final Debate
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Presidential Debates, Election 2020, Politics, Biden, Trump

It was a relatively calm debate; anything would be calm compared to the last one-on-one between Biden and Trump. The fly from the VP debate was not in evidence, a disappointment to many of us. For our sanity, the mute button was the star, however.

I was aware that Trump lied a lot, but the fact checkers have since confirmed that Trump’s words composed the most lying in one stretch of anyone, ever in a debate. Constant lies. Biden was confident, and against a barage of egotistical vents, he shared some of his famous hope and empathy. He also showed a lot of great facial expressions in response to Trump.

One of my favorite one-word answers from Biden was “oh, god.”

Several times Trump successfully rammed some of his comments over the moderator Kirsten Welker’s protestations. While she did a yoman’s job, he often bullied her into silence.

After the debate was over, I listened to commentary on CNN and a final poll was offered. I don’t recall the numbers exactly, but the poll showed Biden won last night’s debate by a large margin. I am so used to being suprised at how close these things are. I would have thought Trump supporters would have been pleased with last night. Maybe they were. There just may not be many of them left.

Below are my drawings. I also videoed my hand drawing for the entire 90 minutes for Happs TV.
A Grandmother’s Lament
Tags: Poetry Prompt, Tanka, Grandchildren, Sadness, Poetry

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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Blockchain Report — 5/23/2018
By: Shaun Newsum
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, News

Summary: Australia Plans To Deliver Welfare Payments Using Blockchain Technology In 2019; Mayor of Seoul Pledges Support For Blockchain Technology For Re-election Campaign; Bank Of America Patents Blockchain Security Tools

Australia Plans To Deliver Welfare Payments Using Blockchain Technology In 2019

According to CCN, the Australian government’s digitization agency announced that they plan to explore delivering social security welfare payments through the use of blockchain technology.

Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Randall Brugeaud emphasized that welfare payment delivery is an early use-case for the Australian government’s efforts to implement blockchain technology into the public sector.

Brugeaud stated:

“Our plan is to look for use cases across the Commonwealth with an initial focus on the welfare payment delivery system, then working with our digital service standard, we’ll conduct user research a view of having a prototype by the end of the next financial years… The potential of blockchain to securely record transactions will be investigated, drawing on the experience of other public and private sector organizations”

Mayor of Seoul Pledges Support For Blockchain Technology For Re-election Campaign

According to Coindesk, the mayor of Seoul, South Korea, has pledged increasing support for blockchain technology to improve his chances at re-election in June.

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon stated that he is committed to helping Seoul’s Mapo district in becoming a center for blockchain innovation. More specifically, Park pledged to turn a Fintech complex into a center for fintech and blockchain development.

This proposal is a continuation of previous remarks from Park, who announced in April plans to release Seoul’s own cryptocurrency called the “S-coin” which would be used in city-funded social benefits programs, as well as launching a fund to invest in blockchain startups.

Bank Of America Patents Blockchain Security Tools

According to Coindesk, Bank of America has won a patent for a way to control access to certain aspects of a permissioned blockchain network. The patent explains how security tokens (i.e. electronic keys) would be used to grant access to certain users to the information in a specific block. The system would be automated so that the network itself would grant and track access.

Bank of America states in the patent:
Hassle free SSL with NGINX
By: Yannik Schmidt
Tags: Certbot, Ssl, Nginx, Lets Encrypt

Nginx is a reverse proxy and web-server which can handle SSL connections for your applications and web content. It is actually very easy to get SSL up an running for free with Let’s Encrypt as your certification authority. Even if you can’t or don’t want to use Nginx as your main web-server, your can simply terminate all SSL connections there and then connect locally via HTTP to your hosted applications.

Certbot

Certbot does most of the work for you, it’s basically a client for certificate authority servers. In our example we will use ACME, which means Certbot will place a magic file in our web-space which the CA-server can then query and therefore confirm that a certain DNS belong to this server.

Installing should, usually, work via the package manager:

apt install certbot

If everything else fails, you can install Certbot via the python package manager:

python3 -m pip install cerbot

Preparing Nginx

Make sure Nginx is available via HTTP. Be careful if you have an HTTPS redirect, while most CAs will connect fine over HTTP (since they must assume you don’t have a certificate yet), some will not connect over a broken HTTPS connection, i.e. with an expired or self-signed certificate. If it is not yet installed, install Nginx with:

apt install nginx

You need the location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ , this location must be writable for Nginx.
Confession
By: Manish Masih
Tags: Pain, Loss, Love, Words, Poetry

Photo by Thomas Kinto on Unsplash

How many invisible threads

will you cross

before you realise

you’re hopelessly trapped

How many peanut shells

does it take you to realise

you’re overcompensating

for the absence of love

How many cigarette stubs

will you crush

to exhale your burden

into the wind

How many Coldplay songs

does it take to remember

the naked warmth

of a December night

How many searches

for a name

before you let go of

what you’ve lost
Total Firearms Manufactured by Type: 2005 to 2015 (ATF) + FBLIVE
By: Kyle Suess
Tags: News, Guns, Data Visualization, Data Science, Live Streaming

A part of a collaborative series with AJ+ on “24 hours of guns in America”, streaming live on Facebook through Thursday, March 9 at midnight EDT. Check out how we dug into the numbers with AJ+ on their Medium post over here.
Angular events
By: Yurii Kuznietsov
Tags: Angular, Front End Development, Web Development

Angular guid

Angular events

In Angular we can use different types of event objects. What the difference and what should we use for what.

Angular event emmiter

Angular event emitter is imported from “@anguar/core” package. It is used in directives and components to emit custom events.

It uses ‘@Output’ and ‘@Input’ decorators.

EventEmmiter have emit() — This method allows you to send messages to all who follow Observable.

Maybe somewhere you can find method next(). This method do the same like emit(). In upper version of Angular next() is deprecated.

Subject

A subject is imported from “rxjs” package. Subject is a special kind of observable. Subject is an observer and observable and it is an active listener. It triggers with next(). Event emitter built on top of the subject. Do not forget to unsubscribe in case of leaving the component to avoid the memory leak.

Observable and Subject have two methods:

subscribe() — This method allow you to subscribe to messages that will send Observable.

— This method allow you to subscribe to messages that will send Observable. next() — This method allows you to send messages to all who follow Observable.

Summary

EvintEmitter is better use in component when you want to send notification other component.

Subject is better to use when you have service and you want to send notification to other service or component. Also subject is being easy to manipulate. For example, it’s easy to add filtering and debouncing just by applying a few operators.

private _subject: Subject<any>;

constructor() {

this._subject = new Subject<any>();

this._subject.pipe(

debounceTime(1000), distinctUntilChanged() )

.subscribe(value => { /* do something with the value */ });

this.observer = this._subject;

}
Creating Neuromorphic Designs in SwiftUI
Tags: Programming, Swiftui, Neuromorphic, iOS, Swift

Neuromorphic Design in SwiftUI

Color sets

To your project’s assets folder, add three new color sets by clicking the + sign. Below, we are going to add colors for both dark and light mode:

Make your first color set and name it mainColor . This color set is for the background and UI elements. The hex color value for the light color is #EFEEEE and #1F242F for the dark color.

The second color set is for the top-left shadow. The hex color value for the light color is #FFFFFF and #292D38 for the dark color.

The last color set is going to be for the bottom-right shadow. The light color hue is #D1CDC7 and the dark color is #14151C.

SwiftUI code

Below, I created a container for our neuromorphic design by using ViewBuilder . You can see in the code how and where to use the colors. You can adjust the shadow radius to your liking:

We can test the design with the simple code below:
#1: Day One
Tags: Journal

My bible

Day 1 of Wuruwuru and I spent all day writing and setting up tools. Wuruwuru emails are now set up for Eseosa Belo-Osagie (ebelosagie) and Ajiboye Ayotomiwa (designgod) 🙄. I’ve also set up Notion for documentation, Basecamp for tasks, Airtable for research and Twitter for marketing.

What are you employing this thing to do for you? (EQ)

Wuruwuru is a playground for interesting ideas.

We’re making multimedia stories about design and popular culture in Nigeria with the goal to eventually publish and sell a magazine.

The idea is to take an interesting question or topic and explore it with a visual essay, game, music album, animation, documentary, dataset or whatever best tells the story. The stories will be made with other independent makers and enthusiastic friends. We’ll also work on mini projects to learn how to create and sell high quality digital/printed goods.

The experiment is to publish these stories online for free and later compile them into a magazine for sale. The magazine will also include internet education, how-we-made-it essays, interviews with collaborators and fun graphic design.

We’re taking it one story/project at a time, starting with Bros J’s Guide. It’s an Instagram comic about learning to roll up, marketed with a trifold brochure (tract). The booklet will be made of cardboard so it can be cut up and used as a filter and the inside spread will be lined to make it easy to fold. I called Onyinye and she says she can print!

For the actual guide, we’re thinking Instagram highlights and feed images illustrated in a monochrome comic style. From my experience with Instagram landing pages (paystackgift, ori.igo), I expect this to be fun.
The fine art market often outperforms the stock market
Tags: Investment, Maecenas, Art, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Many investors choose to explore the fine art market due to its perceived lower volatility when compared to other investment opportunities such as stocks.

Learn more about art as an alternative investment here.

We mention this because after a pretty solid bull run of nine years, volatility has crept back into the stock market — most notably in February 2018, when the popular indices entered a ‘shallow correction’ period.

Any period of volatility can prove a frightening time for investors. Meanwhile, the fine art market is traditionally seen as a lower-risk area for investors to place and potentially accumulate their wealth if they do their research, work with the right people and invest in the right pieces.

For many, though, the art market can seem like something of a closed shop. Maecenas is looking to alter that perception and make access to the art market easier than ever with blockchain technology.

Better access to the fine art market with Maecenas

“In my experience, when the market goes up and down, up and down, that’s good for art” says Christophe Van de Weghe, speaking recently to Bloomberg.

The New York dealer adds: “Over the last 30 years, volatility has been very good for us dealers, because that’s when people want to buy a hard asset.” He also highlights that since the stock market peaked at the start of the year, he’s been selling more pieces to investors and that the art market has been ‘very bullish’.

It’s a perception that many in both the art and financial worlds explicitly agree on, and it’s hard to argue when looking at the figures for the second quarter of 2018. According to MutualArt, the market has seen a 17% year-on-year increase for Q2, while the Postwar & Contemporary category has risen an astonishing 80% since the same period last year, amassing sales of $1.3 billion USD.

No wonder the fine art market can be an attractive proposition to investors. For those new to the market, though, it can be tricky to navigate. Where should your money go, what categories are set to see growth, how do you know if a piece is genuine and — most important of all — do you even have enough capital to enter the market?

Democratising the art market with the blockchain

All of those questions and others are answered with Maecenas’ decentralised art gallery, powered by blockchain technology to open what is, essentially, a closed opportunity for millions of art lovers and investors the world over.

One of the biggest barriers investors face is that the market has effectively remained unchanged for centuries. The Maecenas platform works to open up that market, remove intermediaries, provide more accurate information and build a strong open network of trust between artists, collectors and investors.

Most importantly, Maecenas gives investors the chance to own fractionalised digital interests in some of the world’s most popular and famous works of art, allowing anyone and everyone to invest and potentially increase their capital in some of the planet’s greatest masterpieces.
TKX Public Sale 1 has started!
By: Alson Chia
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, ICO

TKX Public Sale 1 has started!

We are excited to announce that we have moved to the 3rd phase of our Token Sale! For those who have not participated what are you waiting for?!

We are at Public Sale 1 now!!!

Tokenize is an established digital currency exchange that has been in operation since February 2018. Currently a centralised exchange, Tokenize offers vast options for investments in the form of Fiat-Crypto and Crypto-Crypto trading pairs. It is also an IEO platform that gives anyone access to emerging digital currencies that have high potential. By partnering with reputable new projects, the IEO platform will enable the early investment into up and coming ICOs.

TKX Token Utility:

Trading Fee Discounts

User Tiering System Benefits

IEO Platform

Listing Fee

Access to Workshops & Courses

AND MANY MORE!!!

For more information:

https://ico.tokenize.exchange/Tokenize_Xchange_Whitepaper.pdf
Persuading My Mind to Be Free
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spiritual Secrets, Spirituality, Weekly Prompts, Spiritual Growth, Poetry

Oh, my mind! Fly like a free bird,

This is a perfect season to meet the Lord.

As the winds cool down and the garden starts to bloom,

Use this auspicious moment to become his chum.

Go beyond the shadows of the cotton clouds,

where even the stars won’t try to make huge crowds.

Just fly beyond the winds of matter,

beyond this dimension of noise and chatter.

Forget all the attractions of this material world,

And embrace the divine emerald.

Ecstasy, joy, and sublime bliss, you’ll experience,

As there lies no sound’s disturbance.

Tasting the eternity, you won’t need anything,

With wings of true consciousness, fly like an Angel king.

It’s a divine call that’s waiting for your move,

Don’t wait for your kith and kind to approve.

If you’ve walked on the path of spirituality,

You have to break all the human bondages to experience a new reality.
20 Humour-Filled Observations At Indian Weddings That People Internalize But Don’t Verbalize
By: Jaivir Hans
Tags: Life Lessons, Humor, Culture, India, Weddings

I’ve attended many an Indian wedding in my lifetime. It has always, without fail, been a heart-throbbing, wild experience.

Sometimes, we live through a certain memorable experience, and its memory, no matter how glorious or grand, tends to fade as time ticks away.

Other times, we live through moving experiences, but the desire to hold on to the magical emotions can cause us to find a way to immortalize those feelings in our lives — in some tangible way.

This piece is a manifestation of that desire. It is my yearning to take stock of every Indian wedding I’ve attended.

Side note: I am Indian, born and bred.

I’ve enlisted all the noteworthy, flamboyant, bewildering, curious, and ridiculously humorous nuances I’ve been witness to at this cultural spectacle, in the hope of illuminating, as a generalization, the gargantuan event that is the communal Indian wedding.

If you’ve attended an Indian wedding in the past, you may find a lot of the points relatable.

If you haven’t attended an Indian wedding but are going to do so in the future, please keep this short piece handy, but don’t go asking the host to help you spot each point, for you will positively — and immediately — be ejected from the premises.

If you’re never going to attend an Indian wedding, I feel little else besides sorrow and sadness for you, because no one, in my 31 years of accumulated awareness, has experienced buyer’s remorse at the prospect of being an esteemed guest at this celebration.

All else being equal, please maintain an open mind, a lighthearted view, and a comedic outlook to the following twenty.

None of the upcoming points have been extracted from any “one” wedding I’ve attended. They’re a quick and concise compilation of my observations over the past decade of being a spectator to the mammoth Indian ceremony I — and millions of others — splendidly love.

If you read anything that offends your perceived sensibility or precise idea of acceptable, please don’t contact me, because I’m likely busy plotting my attendance at one of these weddings when the world is vaccinated.
A Space for Human Beings
By: Wilson Lau
Tags: Mindfulness

“You can look at your home [as having a particular intention.] You’re not setting it up for people to photograph, or for a magazine, but for yourself and your friends and family. It’s a space for human beings.” ‐ Thich Nhat Hanh in Making Space

A Space for Human Beings

Much too often, we allow how we want others to perceive us to take priority in how we design our spaces and let the burden of our belongings to dictate the ways we live. We shouldn’t let these pressures seep in, lest we want to be constantly reminded how much others’ opinions matter to us. (They shouldn’t.)

Instead run the opposite way: embrace imperfection and practicality over flair and flourish.

Keep in mind the people who matter: You, your friends, your family, not a photographer or voice of the judgemental stranger in your head. The people who matter don’t expect a perfect, magazine-worthy home; they want your home to feel like your imperfect, wonderful self.

Put there where they make sense. We should be proud to put our most beloved, most frequently used things front and center. Don’t feel the need to hide everything behind cabinet doors. You should only feel the need to get and put away someone five times a day when you’re staying as a guest in a stranger’s home, not your own.

Don’t decorate for other people. For all those decorative adornments, unless they have a meaning for you or make your feel happy (then the brightly colored pillows or lively green plant serve a wonderful purpose), don’t put something there just to fill the space or because it’s trendy to do so.
NEM New Zealand University Takeover | Waikato
By: Dalaney Nem New Zealand
Tags: Blockchain, Event, Xem, Nem, New Zealand

On the 28th August 2018, Shaun Belcher, a NEM New Zealand Leader and Rep, was invited along to give a guest lecture about the NEM Blockchain at Wintec. He was also joined by another special guest, Prashant Khanna, from the Waikato Institute of Technology.

The NEM lecture about to get under way.

Shaun spoke about blockchain and NEM to 80 students from 3 different classes along with their tutors, (something that doesn't happen very often I’m told). After presenting, Shaun answered questions from the Q&A and all participating students were offered the Devslopes course for free and sent some XEM tokens to those who downloaded the wallet.

Shaun Belcher — Presenting NEM
7 reasons why for JavaScript
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Devsnack

DevSnack #16: A series of articles that follow the 7 reasons format and are meant to be food for thought. They expose different aspects of JavaScript and some of its frameworks: Meteor and MEAN Stack.

#1–7 Reasons Every Programmer Needs to Learn JavaScript

Three things to do in your life: plant a tree, write a book and have a child. According to Dave Bush (@davembush), if you are a programmer you should also include: learn JavaScript.

#2–7 reasons why frameworks are the new programming languages

This post encourages the use of frameworks by providing several reasons why they are the new programming languages. Read this post by Peter Wayner (@peterwayner) and remember “Code is law”.

#3–7 Reasons to Develop Your Next Web App with Meteor

Discover 7 reasons to use Meteor framework in your JavaScript apps in this article written by David Turnbull (@dturnbull).

#4–7 Good Reasons to use MEAN Stack in your next web project

Intended to promote the use of MEAN Stack, a full stack framework for JavaScript which combines Mongo, Express, Angular and Node; this article enlightens us with some of the advantages of using the framework.

#5 — Which do you prefer and why: MEAN stack or MeteorJS?

Not a 7 reasons article but serves as a conclusion to make you think and judge by yourself. This shows an answer to the question provided by Dan Dascalescu (@dandv) about the differences between MEAN and Meteor.
Spark in Snowflake
By: Era Garg
Tags: Snowflake, Spark, Grass, Moon, Flowers

Coral Jasmine or Nyctanthes arbor-tristis is a night flowering plant with droopy branches. It bears heavily scented delicate orange-stemmed white flowers blooming profusely at dusk, found showered on the ground with spillage of its perfume in the morning.

In India the flower starts blooming in late August carpeting the ground through October and November. Kindled snowflakes still cascade onto the grass though dwindling in number while December is slipping away.

Revered as a favourite of lord Krishna, it is also known as’Har Singar' in India meaning 'the ornament of God’. In Hindu mythology, it is believed to be one of the many celestial trees received while churning ocean of cosmos (samudra manthan).

Thanks for reading.

This micro-poem is categorised as twittle, popularizing on medium recently. A twittle is 4-line micropoem constructed with exactly 100 letters. It’s perfect for tweeting on Twitter.

Era Garg 2020

You’ll find more floral-themed twittles by me here:
What Will Happen Once All The Bitcoin Are Mined?
By: Team Luno
Tags: Bitcoin, Investing, Economics, Cryptocurrency, Finance

As Bitcoin has so far proved deflationary, it’s become a popular store of value

‘Hodling’ is the practice of buying and holding cryptocurrency long-term. This has the added benefit of stabilising prices and reducing volatility.

Bitcoin’s deflation has fuelled the whole surrounding eco-system, enabling the industry around it to grow. This creates network effects — the more people adopt Bitcoin, the more the existing users benefit, which gives them a strong incentive to encourage others to join.

The fact that we know how many Bitcoin are in existence and how many can ever exist is also an important factor that distinguishes it from local currencies.

It’s near impossible to say how many dollars or euros or rand or any other local currencies are in existence. The current estimate for ‘broad money’ (any assets usable for payments or stores of value) is over 80 trillion USD, of which nearly 37 trillion USD are ‘narrow money’ (currency available as a liquid medium of exchange.)

However, that’s just one definition of money. Counting others forms like mined gold and investment funds puts the total figure in the quadrillions, with an estimated 73 trillion USD in the stock market, between 544 trillion and 1.2 quadrillions USD invested in derivatives, and an astonishing 215 trillion USD in debt.

We also don’t know how the supply will change in the future, or how much more money governments will print. As hyperinflation proves, the supply of local currencies is essentially open-ended.

By contrast, the supply of Bitcoin is transparent and well known. Future deflation is expected and widely understood. So although we don’t yet know what the exact effects of this will be, the fact that we know it will happen allows it to be priced into the market. In the meantime, the ongoing deflation is what allows the industry to develop.
I Found the Perfect Cheese
By: Daniele Ihns
Tags: Satire, Humor, Cheese, Rhymes, Poetry

I found a pretty cheese

Dressed in rustic paper wrap

Among others in the fridge

And thought to myself: oh crap!

Watch out, this is a trap

You can’t take lactose

Besides you’re getting fat

You don’t need one of those

But the cheese looked at me

And I back at the cheese

I took the bastard home

And it got me on my knees

Well it was indeed from Spain

So it might have been the accent

But since then I’ve been in pain

From all the stomach acid

This cheese is made from goat

The female goat I mean

But still, it makes me bloat

And my bowels are mad at me

I’m sure Heaven is watching

Me slowly stuff my face

And righteously laughing

As I collapse in disgrace

I’ve downed 400 grams

Of this flatulent mass

I surrender, raise my hands

It’s the end for me I guess

Time to pay for my sin

So I’ll leave you alone

While I make my offering

To the porcelain throne
This Arduino-Controlled Dispenser Turns Bitcoin into Something Tangible: Candy!
By: Cameron Coward
Tags: Arduino, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Raspberry Pi, Technology

Bitcoin has been making headlines for many years now, and a large percentage of the articles below those headlines focus on the inherent intangibility of the cryptocurrency. How can something that doesn’t exist in any physical form have value? If you have Bitcoin, it’s only as valuable as what you can exchange it for. To prove that those exchanges are practical, David Knezić has created a candy dispenser that accepts Bitcoin.

There’s now a candy dispenser that lets you pay in Bitcoin. (📷: David Knezić)

Aside from the obvious fact that everyone loves candy, Knezić’s build is important because it demonstrates the viability of very small Bitcoin transactions. The dispenser itself is built around an Arduino Micro, which is controlled by a computer through a USB serial connection. The computer monitors Bitcoin transactions through blockchain.info, which is a public website where you can see the entire Bitcoin blockchain — the log of all Bitcoin transfers. When the computer sees Bitcoin being transferred to the dispenser’s account, it tells the Arduino to dispense an appropriate amount of candy.

It works, but has two major shortcomings: time and fees. The Bitcoin blockchain isn’t updated instantly, and so it can take several minutes for the transaction to be verified and posted. Each transaction also carries a relatively high fee, which means that you may be paying more in fees then for the candy itself. Both of those might been solved soon by the Bitcoin Lightning Network, which is designed specifically for small transactions that need to be verified quickly. It’s yet to be seen if the Lightning Network will be successful, but the potential for small cryptocurrency transactions — like buying candy — is obvious.
The Guardians of My Galaxy
By: Cocoa Griot
Tags: Life Lessons, Illumination Curated, Ancestors, Life, Poetry

I bask in your light.

Your love leads me through dark times.

Guardian angels.

There are times when I find myself in decision gridlock. The weight of adulting can be crushing at times. My solution is to lean on the wisdom of my ancestors.

They are my guardian angels.

My mother, my grandmother, and my Aunt Jean planted very important survival seeds in my mind. I know that the life lessons they gave me are gifts. If you have time please click on the links to read about how these women shaped my life.

My duty is to share their wisdom with my children. I want my sons to be equipped to handle the trials of life. Some day I pray that I will be a guardian angel for them.

Do you have guardian angels in your life? Are there people who left imprints on your soul that help to guide you through your darkest days?

Please comment and share your stories, I love to read them!

Thank you for reading my poem!
Announcing An Integration With Wombat
Tags: English, Eos, Partnerships, Eosdt, Equilibrium

We are proud to announce our cooperation with Wombat, a combined wallet and gaming center based on EOS blockchain and hosted on Android and IOS. The wallet also runs via Chrome extension. Wombat is adding support to our stablecoin EOSDT and utility token NUT. Also, our Dapp is live in Wombat’s Dapp explorer.

Wombat supports the Telos blockchain and its native currency as well. The system provides high security; it offers private key encryption and recovery, and you can protect your private key with your fingerprint or facial ID.

Wombat has an interesting history behind it. It started as a wallet with the easiest possible onboarding (including free accounts and resources) for EOS, and then expanded into a game platform with extra rewards for blockchain gamers and a number of other applications, all aimed at making the experience with EOS products more user friendly.

Some of the system’s advantages include free EOS and Telos account creation, free and automatic resource staking, easy crypto purchases per credit card, and unlimited play for selected games.

Equilibrium has integrated the Wombat wallet into our website https://equilibrium.io/en.
The Dark Lord on Day Off
By: Kalman Balla
Tags: Short Story, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Humor, Fantasy

The Dark Lord on Day Off

Because even antagonists need some rest

Photo by Alessio Zaccaria on Unsplash

Blight, the Dark Lord, was staring at the ceiling. It was past nine AM but somehow getting up didn’t seem like a good idea. He had almost fallen asleep when his portable crystal ball started ringing.

‘Hallo! Hallo! Dark Lord, are you there?’ A wrinkle-covered, white-bearded wizard’s face sharpened on the surface.

‘What do you want, Babouche?’

‘You missed the meeting at eight with the killer clowns.’

‘And what?’

‘They weren’t too happy. They threw a cake in my face, splashed me with water, and left. They said you don’t take them seriously.’

‘Leave me alone, Babouche. I’m not in the mood to work today.’

‘Dark Lord, that’s not a question of mood… That’s your Fate.’

‘I don’t give a damn. I’m having a day off.’

‘Say what now?’

‘You heard me. I’m not going in today. It’s time for a little rest.’

‘You… You can’t do that. You’re the Dark Lord. The evil ones have no days off.’

‘Where on earth did you get that from?’

‘I read it in some kind of rulebook.’

‘Then it’s sorted: I, the Dark Lord, obey no rules at all. It’s my day off, so piss off.’

‘And what am I supposed to do if someone will be looking for you?’

‘Tell them I’m working on my dark manifesto and I don’t want to be disturbed.’

‘And what if some hero appears to behead you?’

‘Then you’ll improvise, and he will take your head instead of mine.’

‘That would be unfortunate… for me.’

‘You chose the dark side, Babouche. There’s no happy end here.’

‘But then… what are you gonna do today, my Lord?’

‘Enjoying the sunshine, the chirping of birds, something like that. A little café opened at the corner, and I’ve been meaning to try it for a while. Guess what! They are also selling doughnuts, the kind filled with custard and covered with chocolate. I can’t even remember the last time I had a proper meal.’

On the surface of the crystal ball the wrinkle-covered face was just gasping. Blight took the magic device in his black-gauntleted hand and gave it a good shake.

‘Hallo! Hallo! Babouche, do you hear me?’

‘Excuse me, my Lord, I just couldn’t find the words for a second.’

‘And I thought this thing broke…’

‘But, my Lord, I am begging you. Don’t do this to me. You can’t leave me by myself for a whole day. The end of the world is approaching — we can destroy everything.’

‘Eh… I’m not seeing the point today.’

‘But this is our… well, your dream.’

‘At the moment I am only dreaming about a good coffee and a doughnut. Imagine, if we destroy everything today, then tomorrow I won’t be able to pop into this charming little café. Let’s face it, Babouche. Being the Dark Lord sucks.’
Workshop of Ruby + Ruby on Rails + SCRUM at ORT University — July 6, 2011
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Agile, Agile Development, Conference, Ort, Ruby

Moove-IT is now part of the Ruby on Rails Workshops and Conferences around the world.

Even when Ruby seems to be the most popular modern programming language in America, there was nowhere in Uruguay you could actually learn it. Moove-IT will give you a heads up on this exciting language and Rails framework on July 6, 2011 (please see ad below).

This will be the first in a series of workshops focusing on Ruby, RoR, Scrum and hands on training exercises.

We are so proud to have made so much progress working with this technology and methodology that we feel the need to contribute to the local Ruby community.

Join us! Be part.
How To Write A CV in Nigeria
By: Jemima Abu
Tags: Nigeria, Internships, Resume, Job Hunting, Internships In Nigeria

I recently heard somewhere — I can’t remember where so no credit to whoever said it — that there’s no specific format for writing CVs in Nigeria.

This is probably the reason a lot of CVs contain rather irrelevant information.

First things first, a Curriculum Vitae is not a Résumé.

A CV is a complete record of your career history and basically everything you feel your employer should know about you. It can span two to three pages.

A résumé, on the other hand, is a basic listing of your skills and should be tailored to the position you’re applying for. It should be, at most, one page.

Ideally speaking, when companies ask for your CV, you should be as detailed as possible.

However, this is 2017. Nobody has the time to read about your life. Their major concern is finding the best fit for the job.

For this reason, when employers in Nigeria ask for CVs, they’re really asking for your résumé.

NOTE: If applying for a job in a foreign country, you should send in an actual CV unless it is stated otherwise.

To avoid confusion, I’m going to be talking about writing a CV that Nigerian employers expect to see. Which, for all intents and purposes, is a résumé.

Keeping the above information in mind, let’s analyze the format of writing a ‘CV’ in Nigeria.
Hooked On Phonics 1957
By: Jo Ann Harris
Tags: Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Sound, Education, Spelling Correction

How the parochial/private schools made better readers faster.

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash

Peak and decline of parochial schools

For more than two generations, enrollment climbed steadily. By the mid-1960s, enrollment in Catholic parochial schools had reached an all-time high of 4.5 million elementary school pupils, with about 1 million students in Catholic high schools.[17]

A major transition took place in the 1970s as most of the teaching nuns left their orders. Many schools closed, others replaced the nuns with much better paid lay teachers and started charging higher tuition. Source: Wikipedia.org

Private schools are funded from resources outside of the government, which typically comes from a combination of student tuition, donations, fundraising, and endowments. Private school enrollment makes up about 10 percent of all K-12 enrollment in the U.S (about 4 million students),while public school enrollment encompasses 56.4 million students.

Because private schools are funded outside of government channels, they often exercise more freedom in how they operate their schools. Many private schools choose to teach material outside of the state-mandated curriculum. They are also allowed to have religious affiliations and selection criteria for which students they accept.

Differences in private vs public education

Differences in private vs public education can have effects on the future achievement of children. Several studies point out the fact that students who attend private schools are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college afterward. There have been studies that point to the fact that areas where a homogeneous public education system is present have higher amounts of inter-generational social mobility. In comparison, private education systems can lead to higher inequality and less mobility. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth has also pointed to the fact that students who attend private schools tend to earn more in their careers than compared to their public school counterparts. Source: https://en.wikipedia.orgwikiEducational_inequality_in_the_United_States#Private_vs._public_education
There IS Crime in Rhymin’
By: Mary Holden
Tags: Arts, Rhyme, Perform, Poetry, Crime

…and it’s for kids!

Image by Tom Burgess from Pixabay…thanks to both!

Get started young

with poetry

and roll your tongue

in gaiety.

Hear how the words

pick up the play

in twos and thirds

with what you say.

To play it safe

when reading poems

you can’t join PAFE*

or leave your homes.

Yes! Commit crime!

Let poems allow

all stealthy rhymes

to raise your brow.

*Performing Arts for Everyone.
SwiftUI: Magnification Gesture
By: Kelvin Tan
Tags: Programming, Xcode, Mobile, Swift, Swiftui

Magnification Gesture

The most popular magnification gesture can be found in photos, where you can magnify a photo by scaling it larger or smaller. Now, you will attempt to magnify a Tesla image.

You will need a GestureState to store the value.

@GestureState var scale: CGFloat = 1.0

Then, you will need to create an image that will also take the scale value. With each zooming in, the value will be stored in the scale and reused again.

As a result, you will find that it magnifies a lot. We could almost tell who is in the Tesla.