Postsalexbalan in # crypto • 5 yr. ago • 8 min readCafe Swap - My number one upcoming project on the Binance Smart ChainBefore starting talking about the projects let me make it clear that this, not financial advice nor is it an endorsement of any of the projects I'm about to mention. While I've used all of them personally, I suggest you take the time and do your own research on those projects before investing. I'll also urge you not to invest money you're not…alexbalan in # linux • 6 yr. ago • 9 min readBack to Linux! Which distribution to choose as a developer?After I've spent some time with Windows due to my work and my hardware not being enough for a dual boot scenario, the time has finally come to go back to the only operating system that I feel comfortable with, GNU/Linux. To be 100% honest with you I switched back about a month ago at this point and I've been trying to find a distribution to suit…alexbalan in # blurtutorials • 6 yr. ago • 8 min readThings I bought with magical internet money and what spells you need to know to get some yourself 🧙♂️Disclaimer: Some links in this article are referrals. Namely, the link to Publish0x and the one to Celsius Network. The Publish0x one generates me 5% whenever you tip someone while my id is in your navigation bar, while the Celsius one will give both me and you $20 worth of Bitcoin if you deposit $200 on their platform using my link. You can…alexbalan in # blurtreviews • 6 yr. ago • 10 min readMy job vs. Harvest FinanceFirst of all, before you send the police to my doorstep demanding I refund your money, please do not consider this financial advice, mkay? Everything I say here is purely my experience, mkay? We good? Then let's have some fun while I share with you my opinion on Harvest Finance. In this article, I'll be comparing what's like to be a professional…alexbalan in # blurtech • 6 yr. ago • 6 min readOn web design and developmentRecently I entered a Harvest Finance contest which consisted of creating a new design for their website. Since I'm not a web designer, but a software engineer, I decided to take on this job the way I knew best: by writing some code . I never used tools like Photoshop or other design software so picking any one of them up seemed too much of…alexbalan in # binance • 6 yr. ago • 5 min readAn honest review of the Binance Visa CardThe time has come once again for me to bash... ummm I mean to review a project. This time around I am going to take a look at the new Binance Visa card which I've been using for the past few weeks. Unfortunately, the card is only virtual and there's no news on when I'll get my hands on the physical version. That being said I've still been able…alexbalan in # blurtorials • 6 yr. ago • 6 min readTerminal Treasures. Episode 2. + How to install WSL2Today in Terminal Treasures we'll explore an app that complements spotify-tui which I have presented in the last episode. If you remember, the terminal app which brought Spotify to our terminals had no support for podcasts, that's why in today's episode I bring you castero , the app that brings podcasts to your terminal. As you…alexbalan in # blurtmusic • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readYour rock infusion. Pomocy!You might be wondering what this word (pomocy) means. Well, I won't pretend I know either because it's in Polish and I have no knowledge of the language. From what I could gather through in-depth research with... Google Translate 🧐, pomocy means help. Another word that I thoroughly researched is ratunku, which seems to mean "save me".📖📕…alexbalan in # blurt365 • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readLast powerup. I am defeated.In a futile attempt to catch up to @tomoyan and his monstrous amount of Blurt power, today I powered up another 1580 BLURT. I also want to announce my defeat. @tomoyan is just too rich for me to compete with 😂.alexbalan in # blurt365 • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readPlease help me! I can't stop powering up!Now that I powered up 2260 BLURT the other day, I can finally tip authors more 0.000 BLURT. When fully charged, my tip is worth about 0.4 now, but it's still not enough. How could it be when @tomoyan is so much more powerful? Therefore another powerup is in order. This time I powered up even more, with the hope that I'll scare @tomoyan…alexbalan in # blurtech • 6 yr. ago • 8 min readLinux grandmaster switches to Windows.As you probably know I was searching for a job last week and I was actually in the negotiation stages with a company that I worked for last summer. Well, I got the job and today is my first day. Yes, I do write articles at work. No, I don't have anything to do yet 😂. It's my first day let me chill. Now that I'm hired I need to work in the same…alexbalan in # blurt365 • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readNani? 2260 Blurt power up?Yes that's right @tomoyan. I'm catching up, you better watch out 'cus I'm coming after your witness spot. I just powered up so much Blurt I think I'm gonna explode. Am I gonna power up more? Probably not, now that I powered up that much I'm broke 😂. Oh yeah, the small fish just became a bigger small fish. Such Blurt. Much power.alexbalan in # blurtech • 6 yr. ago • 9 min readTerminal Treasures. Episode 1.Series introduction Hello everyone, I'm thrilled to introduce you to a new series focused on bringing to light some programs, most of them running on Linux exclusively and sometimes MacOS as well. Those are applications most of us use every day, like Spotify and others, but instead of running the official client, I'll show you some lighter…alexbalan in # blurtmusic • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readYour rock infusion 3. The man who sold the world.Since in the last episode we talked about a very influential band, Pixies, I say we continue the trend. Here we have another band, often cited as an influence, but Nirvana transcends the rock genre and even some popular pop artists identified Nirvana as a notable influence in their creations. Even to this day, both the band and its front…alexbalan in # life • 6 yr. ago • 9 min readLife update. Why have I been missing and going forward.Hello friend... Hi there! Maybe some of you are asking yourselves where have I been as of late? Two people contacted me personally asking me what's up, thank you very much for all the care, you guys are awesome. In the past few months, I've grown as a blogger on platforms such as Publish0x, Hive, Steem, and recently Blurt. Some of you, the…alexbalan in # blurtmusic • 6 yr. ago • 1 min readYour rock infusion. Art update.This is a short post about my latest series, Your rock infusion . I've been working on a little logo for it, I don't mind if you use it for other purposes, please feel free to do so. Even the #blurtmusic account can use it if @offgridlife wants to. I just wanted to ask what do you think of it, does it suit the series? 🤔 Edit: Here…alexbalan in # blurtmusic • 6 yr. ago • 3 min readYour rock infusion 2. Hey.If you don't know how this series works, here's a little intro. This is an exclusive series I do on Blurt where I recommend you some of the music I like. Don't trust the title, while most of the times it will be rock, there will be other genres as well. In this series I tell you a personal memory that I have with this particular song, then I give…alexbalan in # music • 6 yr. ago • 2 min readYour rock infusion 1. Money For Nothing.Since Blurt is such a chill out place I thought I might start a mini-series just for Blurt in which I'll be recommending you some of the music I listen too, because why not. It won't always be rock, but the title sounds catchy so I'm sticking with that. Before giving you the track to listen to I'll tell you a personal story about me and the…alexbalan in # blurt • 6 yr. ago • 5 min readYeah? Well, 🤬Blurt🤬 you too!What's Blurt? If you've been active on Steem and Hive in the past few weeks you might have seen this project come up a couple of times. Well, I guess Steem not so much, but on Hive there are several people talking about Blurt. Blurt is another fork of the Steem blockchain, which unlike Hive didn't steal all the content from Steem and made it…
