My Reading Log: Interesting Stuff From the Past Few Days (2018-06-10)
I keep track of any posts on the Steem blockchain which I've found worth reading. Here's the stuff I've enjoyed over the last few days.
Happy reading!
Art, games, and geekery
The Art of Marko Karadjinovic
"Hello to all people on Steemit! My name is Marko Karadjinovic. I am an artist/painter located in Novi Sad, Serbia, and i would like to use this opportunity to make an introduction about myself, and my art. "Goddess" (Oil on panel) ABOUT ME: I was born on 20th April 1992 in city Novi Sad, country…"
Heady Chrysocolla/Malachite & Quartz Pendant
by @robali123
"Good afternoon Steem crew! This was quite an ambitious design for me. I've been looking at lots of really complex 'heady' wire wrap designs online lately and finally felt confident enough to give it a go myself. The green stone I used is a Chrysocolla cab although I believe it also has some…"
The Major Arcana XVI, "The Tower (Thunderbolt)"
by @sibr.hus
"Excessive confidence, punishment for pride, collapse, crisis. Colossus on clay feet. Think about siding, do not put all the eggs in one basket. Underlay the straw. Make decisions quickly, minimize damage. Paper for drawings, pencil HB, gel pen. 30x40cm Huge gratitude to those who support my work,…"
Guess The Character! 3D Stylization Of ...?
by @jellenmark
"Dear Steemians, here‘s my take on an iconic moviestars look in 3D, I sculpted for a Portrait Contest by @sethlinson. I used Zbrush to sculpt the model and Blender to create the hair and the accessories. This project took me about 3 days. 4-5 hours of sculpting, 2 hours for details in Blender and…"
How I paint comics - The Techno Templar #35
by @haedre
"Welcome to chapter IV of my 100% watercolour, sci-fi, surreal graphic story for a deep insight into its making. In the previous chapter, our protagonnists got digitalised by a sort of huge machine called "Node 32" and then must fight other Techno-Templars that are trying to erase Devlok. While their…"
New Atari 7800 Game – Spire of the Ancients
by @triverse
"When you think of the Atari 7800 you probably don’t think of role-playing games. Spire of the Ancients is exactly that, a new role-playing game by a member of the AtariAge forums. What is cool about the development of Spire of the Ancients is, we can follow along and if you have the talent, even…"
DC’s Kingdom Come: One of the Best
by @omninorth
"I’m still blown away by this one. I just finished reading the collected issues of Kingdom Come, the four-part epic comic by Mark Waid and Alex Ross. To say it’s a great comic book is hardly doing it justice. Kingdom Come is easily one of the best stories DC has ever put out and thanks to Waid’s…"
Indroduce Yourself- I make dark humor...the end
"It dawned on me today while looking through the Steemit feed, that I never did introduce myself. I just jumped on and started posting content. I'm a writer/illustrator who specializes in Dark Humor. I started my own independently published comic book Arsenic Lullaby many moons ago, and it's still…"
Custom action figure progress: Black Panther
by @saywha
"I was able to make some huge progress on my Black Panther w/Infinity Gauntlet custom figure with the help of a friend today. He definitely came through for me, sculpting the Infinity gems, and some detail onto the gauntlet getting it one step closer to finishing... NOT ONLY THAT, but he found a…"
Rastan (Commodore 64)
"Rastan started life as an arcade game by Taito in 1987. It is a fantasy based side-scrolling fighting game. You fight you way through each level, facing various enemies and a boss at the end of each level. Various…"
STEM
My identity is complex
by @mathowl
"In this post I will explain why the equation in the top figure is special. If you are afraid of long equations then this post is safe since I will explain everything using pictures :) During a calculus course (or maybe just by browsing the internet) you might have come across the following…"
Bring Back Your Dead: De-Extinction
"Jurassic Park might be one of my favorite movies, but, sadly, the first thing to understand about the de-extinction process is that we're almost certainly going to be unable to bring back any dinosaurs. Their DNA is just too degraded. De-extinction (pretty self explanatory, just bringing back a…"
About my own research: gluons, gluinos and sgluons are not weird creatures from Harry Potter
by @lemouth
"One of my favorite activities on Steem is to write about my own research work. This happens every once in a while, in particular when I release one fresh paper. The topic of the day is not an exception to this. A few weeks ago, two of my collaborators and myself published the results of a…"
Is the Play Pump the answer to the world's clean water problems?
by @nonzerosum
"Clean, fresh water is the first and most essential resource when it comes to human health. While progress has been dramatic over the last 20 years, almost ten percent of the world, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, still doesn’t have access to an improved water…"
Vehicle Safety Systems - In depth analysis of what technology can do and why are we letting the monkey drive
by @alexdory
"We are all passionate about technology and cars and some of us know about how your vehicle can technically protect you in case of an accident, but what can a vehicle do to avoid an actual accident from happening? Can we expect a paradigm shift on behalf of the new technology being available?…"
Why the soldier's black boot shines and the blackest synthetic material on earth
by @greenrun
"During the one year mandatory service to my nation, I was both fortunate and unfortunate to get an accommodation in a military barrack. I was lucky that the housing was rent-free, but "unfortunate" that I became subjected to a regimented lifestyle of the military. The order, rules, cleanliness, etc.…"
Keeping fruits alive- An insight into Controlled Atmosphere Storage Method
by @ibk-gabriel
"Hi everyone. It’s good to have you here again. Every living thing continues to respire for as long as it is alive. Some crops such as fruits, vegetables keep on “living” even after…"
There are now over 1,000 mountain gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) in the wild for the first time in half a century
by @valth
"I’m sure all of you are already familiar with the eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei), but what most people don’t realize is just how few of them there are left. This great ape has two distinct subspecies; the Eastern lowland gorilla (G. beringei graueri) and the mountain gorilla (G. beringei…"
Tales of Sungrazing Comets
"Sungrazing Comets On December 16, 2011, a bright Kreutz sungrazing comet is captured approaching the sun. Image Credit: STEREO (NASA) This article is based on a talk I plan to do at this year's Starstuff festival at Byron Bay, NSW, Australia, on July 7. If you happen to be around the area at the…"
Geological Oddities Part 1: Columns, Crystals, and Concretions
"Geological oddities are a lot of fun, but this new series isn't solely about having fun with them- it's also about putting them in geological context, and exploring what these variations from the norm have to say about our planet. Also, though, it's definitely about having fun with them. And about…"
Journey through the understanding of particle physics - Two
"This is the second post in my series about my journey in trying to understand the world of particle physics through my reading of other posts on Steemit and online research. In my previous post I described what I had learn with regards to certain particles and some of their…"
New Progress In The Quest To Control Cells, Wirelessly.
by @justtryme90
"...Controlling Cells...Wirelessly? Yes, you read that correctly. Scientists seek to be able to control specific cellular functions with out having to use machines and wires. It's an interesting concept that seems like science fiction. However the discovery of the protein EPG from the fish…"
Geology of Iceland - Part 5: Magmas and Rocks
"Introduction We have moved closer and closer towards Iceland, starting with the big picture ideas and moving towards the way volcanism occurs. In this post I want to introduce the different magma types, as well as the most basic igneous rock types that are formed on Iceland. At first I want to look…"
Animal Series #16; Why Do They Love Crawling Inside Of Your Ears?
by @chloroform
"Before You Read This Article, I Must Warn You That Not Everyone Will Feel Comfortable With Images And Some Texts Shown In This Article. Hi everyone, Let's talk about something that will give you the heebie-jeebies. I mean, some people in the world has been traumatised…"
[Behind the Scenes] The making of my posts
by @mobbs
"Sometimes it's better to show rather than tell. For a while I have been reading posts and speaking to users about their crappy posts and the problem is thematically the same in every case; people seem to be writing for the sake of writing. Or money. Passion on a subject is often absent but also…"
Death of a Behemoth
"Ecology is the interaction of organisms and their environment. What if the balance has been disrupted due to human population? As population grows residential areas expands taking over lands, marshes and coastal areas. Certain ecological effects are sometimes not considered in the process of…"
BOTULISM: A Kiss of Death
by @alphajeez
"15th April 2018, one of the days in which my reading table couldn’t help but be a sleeping table. Deep down my heart I knew I was just deceiving myself, but then again I had a major exam the next day and I really wanted to burn the night or as…"
Let's talk about the intercoolers [getting rid of that heat at high pressure]
by @adetola
"Hello @everyone, Well, this is not discord so the bot wouldn’t have to eat me or would not actually tag everyone on steemit and if it does, I am extremely sorry. I hope you have been doing well just as I have? Last week was not so good in Nigeria despite having the most beautiful jersey in the…"
You got your STEM in my Utopian.io
Particle physics @ Utopian - Implementing an LHC analysis on a computer: the physics objects
by @lemouth
"Implementing a physics analysis such as those on-going at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN necessitates to get some knowledge on what is reconstructed in a detector. The reconstruction of a collision then leads to a small set of physics objects that any single analysis of LHC collision data will…"
Particle physics - exercise 1b solution
by @mactro
"Repository https://github.com/BFuks/mad5-utopian-exercises Introduction This is a description of my solution provided for particle physics exercise by @lemouth The exercise code is located in two files: ex1b-mactro.h ex1b-mactro.cpp The goal of the exercise was to implement a simplified mechanism of…"
Particle Physics - @lemouth exercise 1b
"Repository https://github.com/BFuks/mad5-utopian-exercises The files described in this post are saved as: ex1b-irelandscape.h ex1b-irelandscape.cpp Introduction This post describes my solution for @lemouth second exercise in his series about open-source implementation of LHC particle analysis.…"
Environmentalism
Reducing plastic waste on the farm - how can we do it!???
by @nickhans
"Hey everyone, I've been too busy to post much the past couple of days. I've been working a lot both in the greenhouse and in the field. I can't keep up with everything, but as long as I just keep it steady, I'm pretty sure everything will eventually come together like it is supposed to. Anyway, I…"
Universal basic income
Another basic income initiative announced
"Zurich municipality lends itself to unconditional basic income In 2019, the 1,300 residents of Rheinau will get a basic income for the period of one year. The conditions to benefit from this RBI The guaranteed income will not be totally unconditional. All participants aged 25 and over will be able…"
The Age of Abundance
"If you’ve been on Steemit for longer than it takes a politician to tell a lie, you’ve probably read one of @taskmaster4450’s posts about The Age of Abundance that he sees in our not-distant future (such as this recent one). His basic premise is that several new technologies and trends are converging…"
Could UBI be a way to cut government waste?
"There are many proponents of Universal Basic Income who believe that it is a way to improve the social safety net while reducing the cost to administer the program. We all know that there is a great deal that goes into the social programs most countries offer. There is usually a lengthy process that…"
Welcoming our robot overlords
PlantSnap - Uses AI and machine-learning algorithm to identify plants
by @autofreak
"PlantSnap Uses AI and machine-learning algorithm to identify plants Screenshots Hunter's comment Plansnap Features Plants Identification It helps you identify plants and trees through your camera Identify trees, flowers and many other plants by uploading pictures to Plant Database Learning Algorithm…"
Using Machine Learning and Python to Keyword Images
by @makerhacks
"You may have seen earlier that I am building an image viewer application. One of the reasons for this application is my store of purchased stock photography, and also my library of personally taken images. When I need an appropriate image for an article, I have to scroll through visually. What if I…"
Crypto, steemitself, and tools
Mass Adoption For STEEM??? Massive Bull Run??? In The Cards But When???
"@cryptographic left a reply to one of my comments that, in part, stated this: I'm obsessed with mass adoption. My initial reaction to this is simply wait. There is a long road ahead. We are at the point in the cryptocurrency industry where development is taking over. While there are a lot of cool…"
I'm doing my Master Thesis on Steemit and I need your help #Survey
by @devidev
"Hi Steemians! I'm a french student who is currently writing his master thesis on Steemit. I am truly convinced that this is the future of social networks. To prove that, i need you to answer to this survey, it will take you about 40 secondes http://edhec.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2aczBYRMhCw6EQJ…"
The Most Undervalued Cryptocurrency, Golem (GNT)
by @jfitmisc
"Many of you here on Steemit are invested in crypto or at least looking to invest in crypto. You have all heard of the main stream cryptos Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, EOS, Cardano, Ripple, etc. But if you want to look into other cryptos with large potential earning power, look into Golem (GNT).…"
The link between satisfaction and user retention
by @conradt
"It is no secret that a huge problem on Steemit is the retention rate of new users. According to the latest updates by @penguinpablo here, there are around 60,000 accounts making trasactions daily (posting, commenting, upvoting, resteeming) - but we know there are now over a million Steem accounts.…"
SteemPeak - A new Steem frontend with awesome features
by @carn
"SteemPeak A new Steem frontend with awesome features Screenshots Hunter's comment I discovered the Steem blockchain in December while following a Google result to Steemit. Since then I've stayed on Steemit since I preferred its layout to other frontends. Yesterday, though, I discovered my new Steem…"
Mindfulness
Awareness, Mapping and Loving Kindness: Ecotrain's Question of the Week - What does mean to own our emotions?
by @riverflows
"@ecotrain’s question of the week this week is: ‘What does it mean to own our emotions?’ It's actually in three parts this week ... more about this at the end! Now, if you know @riverflows at all, she’s an emotional gal. She wears her heart on her sleeve every damn day and she’s been, at her very…"
FOOD
Preserve Your Garden Bounty: 16 recipes to Inspire you (Canning, Fermenting & More)!
by @walkerland
"The best way to get the most out of your garden (or farmers market) is to preserve some of that delicious food so that you can enjoy it year round! The list of tried and true favourite recipes from our homestead keeps growing and I really enjoyed gathering them all to share in one place. There's…"
Fish selar small and shrimp sauce.
by @zianzolla
"Hi everyone Still in the atmosphere of ramadan month that kareem, but stay a few more days to the beautiful day of Eid. Every day I still cook cooking for fasting menu, it must be delicious and delicious food. This time I will share one of my children's favorite food recipes, this food is a…"
How to make Chicken Cheese with Zucchini and Corn Recipe.
"Hello, dear friend how are you? I show you the step by step of my Recipe. I hope you like it! I hope you guys give it a try! INGREDIENTS 3 Tbsp. olive oil, divided 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, divided 1 cup chopped onion 12 oz. zucchini, cut into ¼-inch thick rounds 1 cup fresh corn, cut from about 1…"
My first time having Alligator: An Alligator Sauce Piquant over RIce
"My Father In Law came to visit this weekend! He is in town to help care for the new goat kids we had earlier this week and he brought us a gift! Alligator Meat!! I have been wanting to try Alligator for years, but never had the chance to. I had heard that it was a really good meat, but if you dont…"
Language learning (wǒ huì shuō yìdiǎn)
Memrise - Learn another language easily with this application!
by @jeseemei
"Memrise Learn another language easily with this application! Screenshots Hunter's comment Well, we all know that language is important for a lot of reasons. It's nice to have our first language, but having a second language is significant as well. Importance of Language by Leonardo De Valoes,…"
Curation, community, charity
#3 Steem Repo Magazine - The Best Curation Guild for undervalued content
by @steemrepo
"STEEM REPO WEEKLY UPDATE We are the Best Curation Guild on Steem, because we not only upvotes and comments on good quality posts, we preserve all curated posts into a repository called STEEM REPO If you wanna read more about the Steem Repo process, you can read the entire article here. Week 3 since…"
Help US curate YOU! Register with your SteemPh home hub TODAY!
by @steemph
"@SteemPh.Trail has been supporting members of the Steemit Philippines community for just over a month now. With over 300 votes, at 50% per vote, we have been able to stay at an average of 90% VP this last month. It's not bad for a fledgling curation initiative! But we need your help. It is our most…"
Introducting Project Giving - The Steem Blockchain's first fully accountable NGO
"Our mission Project Giving intends to create the Steemit Platform’s first fully accountable Non-Government Organization (NGO) which will bring financial resources and exposure to local charitable initiatives around the world. Through funding these initiatives, we will empower them to make…"
Project Giving - Charity on the Steem Blockchain
by @raj808
"Sndbox Summer Camp & Project Giving NGO Charity First, I will explain what Sndbox summer camp is and how it is helping to support projects/individuals on steemit. Recently, two members of Sndbox @anomadsoul and @guyfawkes4-20 started an initiative called #sndboxsummercamp. This initiative challenged…"
#Introduceyourself - Better Late Than Never
by @asapers
"Introduceyourself Everybody knows that if you want to be someone one steemit you need to make an Introduce Yourself post, what gets hard is writing one about a community, but let's give it a crack anyway. Note this is about three months late as we jumped straight in paying it forward A.S.A.P... Who…"
Steemit Alternative Trending Page - Curation The Fair Way
by @llfarms
"What would the trending page look like if we had control over it? That’s what I have been asking myself... but, where do you start? Do you go with different algorithms of votes and/or comments? How can that be accurate though with the wide usage of bots and spam comments? Or do you just go with…"
Big, beautiful world
Exploring Cape Alava on the Northwesternmost Bit of the Contiguous US | Photo Album
by @lilyraabe
"When I moved to Seattle 3.5 years ago and first discovered the Washington Trails Association and their interactive map of all WA state trails, I stumbled upon the Lake Ozette Triangle/Capa Alava and immediately added it to my bucket list of “must do” PNW adventures. Years later, I finally got to…"
Series: Travel off the Beaten Track - #2 - Moldova: The Forgotten Country to Travel in Europe
"Are there still secret places left to discover in Europe? Absolutely. Experience Europe off the beaten track. Today I'd like to share an article about Moldova. This is my brand new series here on steemit. "Travel off the Beaten Track" consists of ten different episodes and intends to inspire you for…"
Switzerland: One country, four languages, many dialects (5+ minutes read)
"Switzerland has four official languages, but one of them is not actually spoken, one is not actually written, and two of the four are split into dozens of dialects so diverse that there is a considerable language barrier between some of them. Die Schweiz: Ein Land, vier Sprachen, viele Dialekte…"
Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks. The story of my Bear.
"I had just a few more days to spend in the US. I was running out of time. Since I’ve spent two days in Death Valley, I had only one day for Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks. It is crazy to try cover both for a day and I don’t recommend to rush through the parks that way. The only thing that made…"
Settle, Pen-y-ghent and The Ribblehead Viaduct
"Having been left at home on Saturday while @bingbabe did her marathon attempt at scaling The Three Peaks, I insisted the next day that I too visit the area without the climbing. @bingbabe climbed this monster yesterday (below). ‘You can’t scale these mountains’, she claims, and she’s right, my back…"
Learn how whiskey is made and how a successful little Irish distillery started with no money!
by @ablaze
"How is whiskey made? So how is whiskey actually made? I had no idea before I went on this distillery tour in Dingle a few weeks ago. After the one hour tour, I knew so much more, and really enjoyed the free tasting at the end. What ingredients go into whiskey? Water, Barley and Yeast are the only…"
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World: The Mausoleum (A Big Fat Tomb In A Land Called Halicarnassus)
by @aurackle
"Source So far in this series of wonders, we've looked at The Temple of Artemis and The Gardens of Babylon. Today we're going a little more macabre in The Tomb of Mausolus! Bodrum Source Situated in Turkey in a city now known as Bodrum lies the ghost of the Greek city Halicarnassus. Between 377BC to…"
So, what's all this then?
My goals here are to foster interaction on steem and provide visibility for good content.
Why not just resteem
This is basically a UI issue; I've noted in my feed that some great accounts which resteem dozens of times a day tend to drown out other posts. Until there's a way to separate author-content from resteems in there general steem-verse (i.e. on Steemit), I don't like resteeming much.
Criteria and format
The only real criterion I have is that the article should be something I was happy to have read. Ideally, it would be recent enough to still be active for 3 to 4 days after I post. A few other other things:
- There's no restriction on category, though I tend to read more STEM/nerdy stuff
- The list is not exhaustive
- If I left you off, it's not because I don't think your post was worth reading
- I'm still figuring out how to arrange topics
- Post order is like the point system on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' - meaningless
- If you're a prolific author, I might only list one post in full format, then mention others.
- If I post your stuff a lot, I may leave you out from time to time to make room for others.
- If time allows, I may provide commentary on posts, but right now I'm letting them stand on their own merits.
- Artists! I'm trying to post your art in such a way that people can see enough of it to know if they want to follow the link. I definitely don't want to just repost your stuff in full resolution. Let me know what makes you happy.
Call to Action
I enjoyed compiling this list and you can do it, too. Even if your vote counts for nothing and you have 3 whole followers, start keeping track of what you actually liked reading and let the world know about it. I don't think there's a relevant tag yet, so let's go ahead and use #readinglog. If there is a better tag out there, let me know.
Remember, a community without interactions is just a bunch of people. Comment, vote, promote, even resteem!
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Congratulations @walkerland and @taskmaster4450, the random number generator has picked the both of you from those who were featured today to receive @steembasicincome shares. The transfer should go active within a few days.
You know how to pick a great read. Good job ✌️
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Great job!
Thanks!
I feel honored to be put on your reading list.
Luckily I ran through the "mentions" page of my user name, so I found your great initiative!
Thank you for putting so much effort into promoting other people's work! 👍 An excellent compilation!
I'm glad you like my little project, I certainly enjoyed your photos.
I've been hoping people I feature find out one way or another that they've been listed - I'm hesitant to spam their comments with listing notifications. You might be interested in @ginabot if you want to automate knowing when you've been mentioned.
Actually, I wouldn't mind receiving a nice comment announcing that a post of mine has been featured in a "best of" post. 😉
It's fairly obvious that you put a lot of effort into your compilation posts - you shouldn't worry about being blamed as a spammer.
I'll check out ginabot then. Thank you for making this platform a better place!
The cockroach post took the prize this time, although so many others look attractive. Just read the one about retention. Agreed with most of that. As usual, I will have to check back in this virtual library to check out some more material.