BlogHide Resteemsjustinw (60)in steem • 5 years agoI'm no longer at Steemit Inc.I know I've been relatively quiet lately, but as of today, I no longer work at Steemit Inc. I am going to take some time to get some much needed rest but I just wanted to quickly update everyone.justinw (60)in steemit • 5 years agoMy Background and Vision for SteemHello Steemians, I’m Justin and I’m the Head of Engineering for Steemit, Inc. and in the following video I explain to @andrarchy (Head of Communications at Steemit) a little about my background…justinw (60)in steemdev • 7 years agoHow easy it is to develop STEEM blockchain apps - with video tutorial!In the span of only 9 minutes I'm going to write a basic app that posts an article to the STEEM blockchain and walk you through it step-by-step. For those of you who don't want to follow along…justinw (60)in steemitdev • 7 years agoUpdated instructions for running condenser and a PR in to update the READMEIt has come to my attention that the instructions for running condenser (steemit.com front-end app) have become fairly outdated. I submitted a PR today to update these and it probably will be merged…resteemedsteemitdev (63)in steemit • 7 years agoHelp us test new performance optimizations for steemit.com!We've been working hard on improving our infrastructure over the last 6-7 months and many improvements have already been made. In early February we migrated to AWS and now run our entire stack with…justinw (60)in photography • 8 years agoOne of my favorite secret spots for hiking on the planetA couple weeks ago I took a hike to one of my favorite places ever. I'm not going to list it's exact location - otherwise it wouldn't be secret. As soon as lots of people know about these places…justinw (60)in bitcoin • 8 years agoThe market cap of all coins has DOUBLED in just a month - and keeps climbingI just had to stop and make a post about this amazing fact - the market cap of all cryptocurrencies has DOUBLED in the last month. For those of you who don't know, this essentially means all of the…justinw (60)in steemdev • 8 years agoPulling wallet (and other) profile data from steemit.com/@username.json using javascriptDid you know that steemit.com's front-end (condenser) serves profile data for use in other applications via JSON? Check it out, example: steemit.com/@username.json . Just fill in your username…justinw (60)in devops • 8 years agoUsing EC2 Instance Store (SSD) with Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and DockerDid you know that it's possible to use the local physical storage device attached to your EC2 instance with Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service and without having to create a custom AMI? I'm…justinw (60)in devops • 8 years agoUsing an NGINX reverse proxy behind an ELB in AWSIf you want to use an NGINX reverse proxy behind an ELB (elastic load balancer) in AWS, you need a few extra tricks in order for it to work as expected. In my experience, none of this information…justinw (60)in steemit • 8 years agoAn invitation to test-drive the latest features coming to steemit.comAn invitation to test-drive the latest features coming to steemit.com For anyone who happens to follow our release candidates for condenser (the application that serves content for steemit.com)…justinw (60)in life • 8 years agoIt snowed in the mountains of WNC and our snowdogs had a great time!It doesn't snow all that much here, but when it does, we get a lot for our region! I live on a ridge line at a higher elevation so we usually receive about double the amount of what they do down in…
