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All thanks to those bloody bankers

# The crisis It's been nine years since the global financial crisis of 2008 when the US subprime mortgage sector collapsed due to the high number of defaults, and the collapse of Lehman Brothers and…

The lies we tell ourselves overview #1

I've been writing a series on steem called "The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for about a year now. Psychology has always fascinated me, especially when it's related to aspects of our nature that disturb o…

The lies we tell ourselves - the fear of missing out (fomo)

It's a beautiful summer's evening and you're sat outside with friends enjoying a few drinks and a chat. You take out your phone and open up a few websites to see what's happening. You go back to the…

The lies we tell ourselves - the Google effect

You're working on a piece of software but keep getting the same error, so you type the error message into Google. The first hit is from StackOverflow.com, which you click, and to your joy discover th…

How to setup a python development environment for Steem

I was chatting to @kryptik and he needed help getting setup for python development in Steem. I figured this information would be useful to others, so here it is. This article assumes you're running o…

The lies we tell ourselves - the bystander effect

You're walking down a bustling street next to a park. The sun is shining so a lot of people are out making the most of the weather. You notice a man and woman arguing in a doorway. He's forcing himse…

Mom I'm out of gas

[steemduino] Adafruit TFT LCD example

steemduino is an Arduino library for interacting with the steem websocket API. You can read more about it in [steemduino] - An Open Source Arduino Library for Steem. --- The Adafruit 2.8 inch TFT LCD…

How to program an Arduino using vim

The Arduino IDE leaves a lot to be desired. Granted, it's easy for beginners to build and upload sketches, but as a text-editor it makes you want to smash your keyboard against your monitor. Repeated…

The lies we tell ourselves - the just-world fallacy

You arrive home late one evening to find a police car and ambulance outside the neighbour's home, the blue and red lights illuminating the street. Your other neighbours are lining the street, gossipi…