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crafters loft

Crafter's Loft is a collection of thought invoking, sometimes light hearted honest-to-goodness discussions.


The Pinnochio Files: Linsay Graham

22 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments crafter

Q: How do you know when a politician is lying? A: Their lips are moving. Lindsay Graham - 2016 "I want you to use my words against me," "If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Li...

Trustdice is a scam

21 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment crafter

I recently created an account on the trustdice gambling site. In addition to the games, they have a number of coins they offer as a faucet service.  The site is cleanly designed,  the faucets have no capthca and the payment high (100 sats for claim)....

"You are feeling sleeeepppyyy" - How to relax, quickly and effectively

10 Jul 2020 3 minute read 4 comments crafter

We live in a fast moving world of stress and demands on our time and attention, from our jobs, family, community, social media. All of this places heavy stress on us. Often we are unaware of the level of stress we are carrying, because our bodies are...

Link only posts are the worst kind of low quality posts.

13 Jun 2020 1 minute read 4 comments crafter

Recently I have noticed a number of posts that are just links to content hosted on external sites. In order to build publish0x into a platform of quality content, we must ensure content is self contained. While links are useful in articles, a link on...

Coinpot faucet maintenance (with updated good news)

3 Jun 2020 1 minute read 1 comment crafter

UPDATE: The faucets have currently doubled their rewards. So claim often Coinpots faucets are down for maintenance. Since 1 June 2020, all coinpot faucets went down. The coinpot faucets are very popular and probably used by some to contribute to thei...

Publish0xTutorials : Simple introduction to understanding SQL queries

14 Feb 2020 3 minute read 6 comments crafter

If you wanted to get started learning SQL queries, but always feared it might be too complex, start by following my quick guide to getting started. SQL queries can get complex, really complex. But at its heart, SQL was meant to be a simple way to int...

Why Republicans should let Donald Trump go.

2 Jan 2020 1 minute read 4 comments crafter

  Firstly I should state that I am not an American and I am not a resident of America. I do however have a keen interest under going on in us politics because of its impact on the world stage So I've just come across the news that Trump has been i...

Monero forked - New algorithm and reduced GPU mining

2 Jan 2020 1 minute read 5 comments crafter

On 30 November 2019, the Monero blockchain underwent a hard fork that saw a new algorithm being used. It's new algorithm is called RandomX and has built in features to discourage (or eliminate) mining on GPUs, which are generally only available for t...

How Web pages work

13 Dec 2019 2 minute read 1 comment crafter

Of all computing technologies, web pages are probably the most interacted with today The Internet has grown in leaps and bounds over the past two decades. Many of us spend a significant part of  our day interacting would some website. Not many of us...

Lessons from Madiba - Stand by your principles.

10 Aug 2019 1 minute read 2 comments crafter

Former political prisoner Nelson Mandela (commonly known by his clan name of Madiba) is well know for the struggle he engaged in against the brutal Apartheid government in South Africa. Having survived 27 years of prison for standing up to the Aparth...