Best of Steemit Roundup for Tuesday 23 January 2018

makerhacks (66)in #technology • 7 years ago

Best of Steemit Roundup for Tuesday 23 January 2018

Introducing SteemPress beta, a wordpress plugin for steem by @howo

If you’ve been following @fredrikaa and I, you’ve probably seen that we are working on a WordPress plugin for steem. Well, it’s time for me to show you the code and share some more details.

As I have already mentioned a couple of places, I am heavily invested in both the WordPress and Steem communities, so any time someone brings them together I will defnitely take notice!

This is another WordPress plugin to allow you to syndicate your WordPress content to Steemit. I do not see if they are taking a % like the other one, plus not sure how the duplicate content bots will treat these syndicated posts, but definitely going to check it out.

Interestingly this is a mixture of both PHP and NodeJS, whereas the the previously mentioned plugin sends instructions to the developers server to do the Steemit actions.

Border Patrol Launches Program to Scan the Face of Every Person Leaving U.S. by @dbroze

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have announced plans to scan the faces of all flyers exiting the United States. The American Civil Liberties Union reported:

As a frequent flier I am kind of used to invasions of privacy, and because I used to fly on a British passport, every time I entered the USA I had to have fingerprints taken and photograph snapped. It's almost like they didn't want visitors.

That said, we shouldn't accept it as normal. The worse it gets the more we get used to and the more we allow.

Future Update: AI and Robots Replacing Human Workers at an Astounding Rate! by @techblogger

There is no doubt that automation has displaced workers in many occupations. Machines are now more responsible than ever in both manufacturing and routine office jobs.

if you are not already in a creative field or another career that is difficult to automate, consider your options now.

It's not just manufacturing.

One of the most popular jobs in the western world is "driver" but already in privately controlled spaces (farms, mines, lumber ...) those jobs are vanishing, and next will be those on public roads.

Intro to Kotlin (Basic Types, Type Inference, Casting and Strings) by @tensor

What Will I Learn? You will learn about the various basic types in Kotlin You will learn various things about casting types and type inference in Kotlin You will learn about strings, string interpolation and various other attributes of strings in Kotlin

This caught my eye because I had JUST purchased some books on the topic.

If you are into cross-platform development, this is a language to watch!

Tech News: Robots and More Robots Unleashed at CES 2018! by @techblogger

Apparently this year's CES completely blew people's minds when they got a look at all the cool exciting new robots due to hit the market this year. At bare minimum it looks like getting directions in shopping malls is going to be a whole lot easier assuming these robots get a shot at helping folks!

Good news for robotics fans - robots have never been more accessible and popular!

Of course we are a ways off before the Asimov 3 laws kick in, but we are getting closer ;)