Basic Exploration In-depth Exploration Can you find a pattern that returns to its starting point after more than two time steps? What’s the longest you can see a pattern go without repeating a configuration? To answer these questions I decided to build my own implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in Python to brute force…

This article was originally published on Steemit.com Over the past month, I’ve been building a new search engine that indexes the steem blockchain. It’s currently live at asksteem.com. The goal of AskSteem is to provide a reliable, powerful, and fast search engine that is optimized for steem. In this post, I’d like to cover some…

The New iPod Touch from Apple is a great way of getting an iOS 8/9 experience without having to pay the hefty price of the iPhone. However while cheaper than the iPhone it does come with a few drawbacks, one of which is that it cannot be used to make Phone calls or send text…

1. Gigapros Web Hosting While Gigapros do have Shared and VPS hosting, where they really shine is in their Dedicated Servers. They have a very different way of operating that differentiates them for many other web-hosts and puts them as number one on this list. The main one being how they allow you to pick exactly the…

So you’re doing good for yourself and making decent earnings off AdSense. But then one day you get that email in your inbox with the subject “AdSense Account Disabled” and everything changes. You suddenly realize that any other respectable Ad Networks either have low CPM or are just pure scams. So here I’ve compiled a…

If you haven’t been following it then you might be surprised that a young start-up by the name of ‘DuckDuckGo’ is challenging the mighty search giant Google. But on February 19, 2008, the new privacy-focused search engine emerged and was incorporated. The main difference between DuckDuckGo and Google is that DuckDuckGo claims not to track…

Almost every site on the web has a robots.txt file located at Example.com/robots.txt which tells web crawlers or bots what they are allowed to visit and what they are not allowed to visit. This can be helpful for blocking off admin areas or backend files that you do not need or want crawled or giving…

I feel that there is a lot of confusion as too exactly what DoFollow and NoFollow links do and don’t do. A common misconception is that if something is marked NoFollow then search engines won’t follow the link at all. This, however, is not true at all, because web crawlers simply aren’t going to pass…

What is a Backlink? Well, its very simple actually, a Backlink is just a DoFollow link pointing to a website. I’t’s useful to have a collection of Backlinks pointing to your website because they are used by most major search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo! to determine the trust level of your website.…