Hey everyone, I wanted to write this while the work is still in motion instead of waiting until everything is polished and then pretending the path from problem to fix was cleaner than it really was. I

Hey everyone, Lately I have been digging into a streamer issue on the Hive-Engine node that I think a lot of operators have probably felt, even if they did not immediately know where the problem lived.

Hey everyone, Lately I have been looking through ssc_tokens_history and thinking about what I would do if I decided to give the history node a proper modernization pass. This is not one of those "burn

Hey everyone, If you run a Hive-Engine node, this one might save you a few hours of chasing the wrong problem. I had a power outage, my machine came back up, and suddenly mongod would not stay running.

Hey everyone, I intended to avoid writing another update about my persistent exhaustion or my "jello-brain." However, the truth is unavoidable: I am incredibly tired. Since the words aren't wording

Hey everyone, I know it is Friday because the calendar insists on it, but my internal clock has lost all sense of time. Maintaining a reverse sleep schedule is a daily battle, and while I have managed

Hey everyone, I have been quiet lately, though I am still lurking in the shadows. Transitioning to a graveyard shift (11 PM – 7 AM) has been a significant adjustment. "Adulting" is a demanding

Hey everyone, Following up on my last post, the tax tool update is officially live. I transitioned the parsing logic entirely to the frontend. The tool now processes large accounts with massive transaction

Hey everyone, It is tax time again. I recently noticed the simple account history tool (Tax Report Generator) on hivetools struggling with "worker thread timeout" errors on large accounts. To

Hey everyone, We’re doing a Solo Adventure. One GM. One Player. No meat-shields, no dedicated healer bot, no wizard to sleep the encounter while everyone else beats on them. Just one hero against a very

Hey Everyone, Every adventure has its beginning. While I often champion in media res to kick things off with a bang, I have opted for a classic, "in the beginning" approach for this solo experiment.

Hey everyone, Happy lazy... whatever today is. Wednesday? Really? I intended to post yesterday, but a supply run derailed my plans. The grocery stores were barren. Whether it was storm prep or a logistical

Hey everyone, Well, that was a false start. After my post yesterday about fixing up the master branch of the ssc_tokens_history repo, @forkyishere kindly pointed out that I was essentially polishing a

Hey everyone, Sometimes, the infrastructure we rely on works so well that it effectively becomes invisible. It sits in the background, churning away, doing its job perfectly... until you look at the commit

Hey everyone, It’s time for another update! I’ve just pushed hive-nectar v0.2.14 to PyPI. This release focuses on stability, reducing load on our beacons, and smoothing out the experience for Docker users.

Hey everyone, It’s been a busy few weeks over here, even if my posting schedule says otherwise. If you follow along with my random updates, you know I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to really

Hey everyone, While adding a new script to the Project Builder section of my tools site, I noticed I had fallen behind on archiving the miscellaneous scripts I've shared here recently. I took some time

Hey everyone, I know when to admit defeat. For the last week, I have been fighting the good fight. I threw 80 CPU cores at a MongoDB restore. I wrote custom scripts to track pigz/mongorestore pipes in

Hey everyone, For those following along with my Hive-Engine restore adventures, here is the Monday morning status report. We threw everything at this problem to bypass the software bottlenecks. The Triple

I thought this would be easy. I’m upgrading my Hive Engine node from "Lite" to "Full." I have the hardware to make this trivial: a Dual Xeon Gold server boasting 80 logical cores and