Welcome @codeomatic your programming knowledge can be put to good use on this platform!
Being new to the steemit community can be hard. Here are some great resources and communities to join. I also recommend getting on discord to chat with other users. It’s a great way to grow your network.
Smartsteem - a site to sell votes and upvote post to make your work more visible.
https://smartsteem.com/?r=cryptictruth
Steemmonsters - a card game played on the steemit blockchain (super addicting)
https://steemmonsters.com/?ref=cryptictruth
Minnowbooster - a site that you can use to sell votes and upvote posts for more income.
https://www.minnowbooster.com/vote-selling/?ref=605656
Disclaimer: these are referral links so I do get perks for you signing up. However, these are some of my go to sites so even if you don’t use my links I recommend them.
Thank you @cryptictruth. You're right. Figuring out all the details about steem platform is hard. I'm going to follow the recommendation of an old joke and assume the cow is a sphere. In this case I'll assume Steemit is a blogging platform. I don't think I'll use any of the links for now but I voted for your comment because I thought 'Wow! You can do that with steem! That is crazy!' For now I'll do what @steemladder suggested and read Steem Blue Paper carefully.
Research is key! If you have any questions let me know sometimes things on this platform are not intuitive.
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funny comparison the cow sphere story!
I came here because @michel.speiser tagged me (see his comment below) and I saw this on steemworld
it is a great tool. you can see basically anything about your account or any other account (just change the name) https://steemworld.org/@codeomatic
also the recent hardfork, HF20, changed a lot on steemit, especially about the RCs
so if you only wanna look up them, use steemd https://steemd.com/@codeomatic
this is important because your ability to vote, comment etc. is limited and this limit depends on your steem or rather amount of RCs (these RCs replenish by themselves).
no affiliates or anything here ;-).
have a good time
explore and don't get frustrated too easily!