Hi there

My name is Sagan on Roids ... not because I condone the use of steroids, but just 'cause beefy Carl Sagan makes me laugh. I'm looking forward to being apart of this community, and posting here regularly about some topics that interest me.

Dirty Bomb, eSports, and video games

If you enjoy competitive first-person shooters and have played Dirty Bomb before, you may recognize my name from the r/DirtyBomb subreddit or my montages on YouTube. Here is one of my more popular montages, Sagan on Spitfire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig6F5gx5gvw

Cryptocurrencies and blockchains

I don't think I need to convince anyone on Steemit about cryptocurrencies. It's becoming clear that cryptocurrencies are going to be a much bigger part of every day life over the next decade. It's a very exciting time to be in this space, like having Internet in the 90's. I plan to talk about some of my favorite cryptocurrencies in future posts:

The Basic Attention Token (BAT), which could dominate the digital advertising industry and grow to a $10 billion dollar market cap in 2018.
EOS, the platform behind BitShares and Steemit that could dethrone Ethereum and change how websites are built.
Siacoin (SC), Mysterium (MYST), Golem (GNT), others, and Steemit of course.

Programming and web apps

I've been coding websites for work and fun for over 15+ years. I've used many different programming languages throughout my career, but lately I've mostly been using Elm and Javascript.

If you haven't heard of Elm, it's a programming language that compiles to Javascript and makes it near impossible to introduce runtime errors. It also makes refactoring code incredibly easy—much easier than Javascript. Although it's relatively unknown, Elm has made my life much easier and I hope to share some things I've learned about it.

Thanks

Thanks for reading!

sagan-on-roids