I'm starting to find it hard to write a daily #ulog, on weekdays, every day is like a copy/paste from the previous day lol. As the World Cup kick-off is happening tomorrow night, my company is now under code-freeze. We cannot deploy new features or changes unless they are fixes for critical issues. Tomorrow, some of us will not be coming to work, taking on some sleep time in order to work on their night shifts. My turn will be starting this Saturday with a shift starting at 3 am.
I will try to wake up one hour earlier every day from tomorrow, that is if I manage to sleep early tonight, it's not going to be easy for me as I'm more of a night owl. The alternate solution would be to stay awake overnight on Saturday and sleep during the day.
How does a bot look like?
So I'm a developer per trade, my life is surrounded by programming code and application logs 🤣. For those curious about what a bot looks like, here is a little preview of its code. This is a small piece of code from @teamvn, the community bot I'm building for the Vietnamese community. This piece of code is using @steemsql service from @arcange that has indexed the content of the Steem blockchain into a SQL Server database allowing me to make complex search queries more easily and faster than if I had to read the blockchain directly. It is a paid service (10 SBD per month) but it's worth every cents as it makes my life so much easier.
This piece of code, queries Steem SQL and requests the most recent post of each member of the bot's upvote list. For each of those posts, it will check whether or not it meets the minimum of 200 words and start checking if it has been previously voted on.
Sneak peak at a witness server
I'm currently testing a new setup for a witness node and a seed node. This new setup will allow me to continue running a witness node and also launch a seed node (that will broadcast blocks to other witness servers) without burning my bank account while I'm climbing up the witness ranks. If you want to support me, head to the link below, scroll down, in the first text input, type my name quochuy and click on the Vote button, my name will appear below the text input.
Ever wondered how a witness server looks like under the hood? Well, I can't show you the whole code for the software and all the stuffs running on the server, but this is what Steemd, the software that does the witnessing work, outputs when it is running, receiving blocks and generating them.
In the screenshot above, what you are seeing are events received by my witness server, they are mainly the reception of blocks signed by other witnesses (most of them from the top 20) that Steemd has to add to its local copy of the Steem blockchain.
So each line is for one block. The information that is of interest is on the right handside, for example:
Got 30 transactions on block 23280739 by ausbitbank
That line tells me that I have received one block from @ausbitbank, the block is identified by the number 23280739 and contains 30 transactions (posts, comments, upvotes, transfers etc...) from other Steemians. And if you want to see what is inside that specific block, check this link from SteemDB:
https://steemdb.com/block/23280739
That's it, a little glimpse onto the technical aspect of my life 😆. See you tomorrow if I'm not running out of ideas
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Wow, this post is interesting, I enjoy reading it. You should write more article like this, its gave me a valuable insight into bot activity
Hey. Thanks mate.
I will break down the bot’s code into one ore more posts
Congratulations! Your post has been selected as a daily Steemit truffle! It is listed on rank 5 of all contributions awarded today. You can find the TOP DAILY TRUFFLE PICKS HERE.
I upvoted your contribution because to my mind your post is at least 32 SBD worth and should receive 130 votes. It's now up to the lovely Steemit community to make this come true.
I am
TrufflePig, an Artificial Intelligence Bot that helps minnows and content curators using Machine Learning. If you are curious how I select content, you can find an explanation here!Have a nice day and sincerely yours,
TrufflePig@quochuy, don't you feel like Keanu Reeves in the movie "The Matrix" with all these codes.
Oh yea, I see a blonde girl in red dress all the time!
@quochuy - what about photography post? Sometimes you don’t need 200 words. The bot automatically denies those entries. Although I enjoy the bot’s response.
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The admin team has agreed for 200 words regardless of if it is a blog, photo or video. Steemit is not a photo album or a video repository, it is a blogging platform where you can attach photos and videos. If we want to add value to the Steem blockchain then we need to make things better. When you attach a photo, you can tell many things about it so the viewer knows more about the photo, the story behind it or even about your style and yourself. For example, these are some things you can add to a photo:
Here is an example of mine:
https://steemit.com/photography/@quochuy/iphone-macro-photography-verbena-bonariensis-aka-purpletop-vervain