It's been a busy week for me, I've started 5 or 6 projects, cancelled/froze one of them, and finished two of them.
This witness update is a little bit late, but I haven't had much to show until now. My witness server has been up and running 24/7, and I haven't missed a single block, despite running for several weeks now, and going through a hard-fork.
What have I done this past week?
Created ANONSTEEM - for anonymous STEEM accounts
AnonSteem is my latest medium-sized project. A few people I know have a strong hatred towards social media accounts, and there weren't really any other methods of obtaining accounts outside of steemit.com
So, I created AnonSteem, where you can purchase your account upfront by paying AnonSteem your creation fee in BTC/LTC. I wasn't certain if it would take off, but there's been quite a few account creations so far, and I hit the frontpage with the post.
Post: ANONSTEEM - Create Anonymous Steem Accounts without social media
Fixed several issues on @xeroc's Piston library
While working on AnonSteem, I found two separate issues in the account creation system of Piston, I ended up taking the matter into my own hands, created a fix for the issues, and sent a pull request to solve the issues for everyone.
Post: Have you created any accounts via Piston? Your owner keys and posting keys are swapped!
Ran a game giveaway to try to bootstrap the Game Review category
The post was also to possibly help me gain some more STEEM power, while at the same time giving out a game in a fair and verifiable way, however it fell flat. Many people loved the idea though, and it helped encourage people to keep writing their reviews.
Post: @someguy123/steam-game-giveaway-outlast
Steem-in-a-box
As you might recall from my last witness update, one problem I was trying to solve was the installation effort. I solved it partially with up-to-date instructions on STEEM.CENTER, but I wanted something better.
Steem-in-a-box is a small shell script designed to make dealing with STEEM inside of a Docker container painless. While the post didn't get too much attention, it has been useful to myself and a few others.
The most important point of Steem-in-a-box is that using the one-liner in the post, you're able to set up a STEEM seed, witness, or RPC server without having to do anything at all, other than set up your config.ini file
Post: Steem-in-a-box - Deploy a new seed, witness, or RPC server with a one-liner
Joined the Wiki Content Team
@ned recently asked for people to work on improving the poor quality of documentation for STEEM, for both new users and developers.
I have teamed up with @dragonho and @serejandmyself as the "Steemit Wiki Content Team", working together on a new possibly official wiki and FAQ for STEEM/Steemit, so new users don't have to check across 5 different sites, and hundreds of outdated STEEM posts to find the information they need.
If you think you can help out, feel free to join #wiki on the Steemit.CHAT and let us know where your expertise lies.
What am I doing next?
I'm going to be continuing to work on new STEEM services, while at the same time working with other people in the community to improve existing services, as well as working with the Steemit Wiki Content Team to produce good quality information to help people out.
I love the idea of a censorship resistant, free (libre) platform, and I may continue to work on more services for that aspect, but may venture out to other areas where I see useful to the community.