Hey everyone, A little while ago, I wrote about keeping my Pascal-era NVIDIA card alive on newer Linux kernels by patching the NVIDIA 580 DKMS driver. That post was about kernel changes and compatibility

Hey everyone, In my last update, I broke down the Knobs A, B, and C changes and teased what was coming next. The latest piece of that puzzle, Knobs D, is now built, tested on live mainnet traffic, and

When evaluating crypto risks, most people focus on crude code traps: a honeypot smart contract that lets you buy but blocks the transfer function when you try to sell, or a developer minting trillions

Hey everyone, If you run a Hive-Engine node (or manage a self-hosted MongoDB instance on Linux), you might run into a nasty surprise after bumping your apt repositories for MongoDB 9.0. You configure the

Hey everyone, Over the past few weeks, I’ve been chipping away at a series of performance tweaks and operator controls for the Hive-Engine node. What started as a sprawling wish list of potential optimizations

Hey everyone, I have been working through the next small performance bundle for the Hive-Engine node, and this one is about the part of the node that fetches Hive blocks. The short version is: I added

Hey everyone, If you are running a Linux workstation or server with a Pascal-generation GPU (like a GTX 1060, 1070, 1080, or 1080 Ti) alongside bleeding-edge kernels, you might have hit a brick wall recently.

I have been continuing the small, careful performance work on the Hive-Engine node. This time the change is less about adding a new operator setting and more about removing two bits of avoidable waiting

If your Pathfinder 1e druid wants to summon a Black Bear, or your ranger wants one as an animal companion, your first instinct is to pull open the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and flip to the "B"

Hey everyone, I have been spending some time in the Hive-Engine node codebase, looking at a larger list of possible performance and lite-node improvements. I decided not to start with the flashy stuff.

I have been working on a small project called Hoverfly, and it is finally at the point where I am comfortable showing it to other Hive developers. The short version is this: Hoverfly is a single-binary

Hey everyone, A little follow-up to my original Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use post. In that post, I wrote about using Linux tc (Traffic Control) to keep my Hive Engine

Hey everyone, Quick little infrastructure update today. The Moon server migration is officially done, and everything went a lot smoother than I honestly expected. The old DigitalOcean droplet has been

Hey everyone, This was a good week. I had two Hive-Engine related PRs accepted: Wiki documentation cleanup: #8 Comments contract app tax fix: #137 The Documentation PR The first PR was a cleanup pass on

Hey everyone, I ended up running a brutal, unplanned stress test on my new Hive-Engine data integrity branch this morning. The short version: my witness host went through about five hard restarts and service

I have been digging into a class of problem that is deeply frustrating from an my experience: data loss and corruption after power outages or hard resets. If you run a Hive-Engine node, you have probably

Hey everyone, Today, June 26th, 2026, at 10:00 AM EDT, the final dCity claimdrop closed. After 8 years, after hundreds of thousands of HIVE paid out to players, after the game shut down, the treasury,

Hey everyone, The work to modernize Hive developer tooling is continuing. Pollen gives JavaScript and TypeScript developers a modern path forward. You can read that announcement here and we have continued

Hey everyone, My extremely competent project manager told me to talk about this 😆, and honestly, he was right to call it out. It's been a busy couple of days getting some much-needed structure, formatting,

Hey everyone, It has been a busy week of cleanups, refactors, and minor quality-of-life adjustments on HiveTools. If you have used the site recently, you might have noticed things feeling a bit faster,