Second to an app

Please Wait Sir

I am quite sure many people that are reading right now, you included, have used apps such as Just Eat to order your favourite take away and while they are good for ordering at home they are starting to ruin the experience of going to the take away itself.

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It’s okay to lose weight

I am one of the first people to understand that it is okay to be overweight as long as you are willing to accept the health issues that comes with it there is no shame in being overweight and anyone who tells you otherwise are people you do not want to associate yourself with but it is also okay to want to lose that weight.

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Well, is it free or not?

It is no hidden secret that I dislike Facebook and outside of using it for my many websites I wouldn’t bother using it but one thing I have noticed with Facebook is a bigger push to create local groups for the sole purpose of “buying and selling” and there are so many problems with them that piss me off.

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Fuck modern smartphones

Over the last few weeks, I have been looking in buying a new phone and tablet to replace the ageing ones I have and so far I am liking the Surface Duo and the Surface Pro, mostly based on my experiences with Surface products in the past, but fuck me they both show the problems I have with modern phones nowadays.

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When to pass on the torch?

Over the last month or two during the process of passing over leadership of a community to someone else, I have been thinking about all of the communities I have run over the years and the question in the title popped into my mind – when is it time to pass on the torch to a community and I figured I would speak a little about my experiences on the reasons why I did before I comment on when it is time.

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Why BAT could change the ecosystem

Privacy is something that many people don’t find important until it is lost. Lately, a lot of web browsers have started to take a heavy hand when it comes to their users’ privacy as that data is worth so much to companies such as Google, and Facebook. It is something that the Brave Browser aims to share with its users by keeping the user’s information within the browser and not sharing it with either themselves or advertisers. The end-users are paid via a token that they can exchange for fiat currency.

The token I will be discussing is known as a Basic Attention Token (BAT for short) and the basic idea is every time you are shown an advert you are given some tokens in the form of a cryptocurrency that is based on ETH which you can then cash out or more importantly – tip it.

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