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Man vs. Physics: The Power Grid Gets the Final Say

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 scr...

The Final Boss: When 80 Cores Meet the SATA Limit

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...

Restoring Hive-Engine Full-Node: How I Fought MongoDB's WiredTiger Throttle and Won

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 boastin...

Supercharging Debian: Moving /var to SSD (and Fixing My Own Screw-ups)

Hey everyone, I finally upgraded my server with a dedicated SSD for /var. The goal was simple: production databases need room to breathe, and I wanted the magic...

Qtile, Lazy Manufacturers, and a New Year's Query

Hey everyone, I was planning to drop a post today about my new Engine Watchdog script, but I’ll save that for 2026 (tomorrow). I got sidetracked fixing an annoy...

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): A breakdown for Hive Engine Operators

Hey everyone, A new Critical Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) is making the rounds in the database world. Dubbed MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847), this exploit allows at...

Holiday Check-in: 500k IPs, Bug Fixes, and The Botnet That Won't Quit

Hey everyone, A couple of things before I disappear for a few days (Maybe??) re: The 100K IP Botnet (Update: It's Worse) Maybe they read this blog? Because ever...

The 100,000+ IP Question: Why is a Massive Botnet Obsessed with Old Blockchain Data?

Hey everyone, I usually write posts sharing cool technical implementations or updates on my projects. Today's post is a bit different. It's a detective story, a...

Hive-Nectar & Nectarengine v0.2.x Released!

Hey everyone, Today I want to officially announce that the v0.2.x series of hive-nectar and nectarengine are live! After much testing, crushing bugs, and modern...

Nectar v0.2.X has begun it's final test

Hey everyone, I just put the dev branch v0.2.0 on the @steembasicincome production server. Fingers crossed. 🤞 So far so good, it's completed a few rounds and j...

Async Python is Ugly

Hey everyone, I think we can all agree on something: standard Python asyncio is painful. It requires significant boilerplate. You have to manage event loops. Yo...

Fixing Tools and Claiming Account Tokens

Hey everyone, One downside of building so many toys is forgetting to check on them. Recently, @ecoinstant wanted to finally publicly announce our tools page: to...

24hr Sprint - hive-nectar v0.2.0 - still in the oven

Hey everyone, The last 24 hours have been a sprint. While working on a separate project, I implemented no less than four critical fixes to the hive-nectar v0.2....

Do you know about Tools.Crypto-Dreamr.Com? Standalone tools for power users

We have worked very hard this year around the HIVE platform. We made some noise, did some experiments, learned some things, met some people, visited some places...

Nectarengine v0.2.0 release candidate

Hey everyone, Following the hive-nectar update, I am also releasing a nectarengine v0.2.0 branch. I modernized the codebase to use httpx instead of requests and...

That’s the spirit

Hey Everyone, As some of you may have already noticed, I haven't been posting much lately. I'm pretty sure it's a combination of seasonal depression and the hol...

Go Ports, ASCII Art, and Hive-Engine Fixes

Hey everyone, I previously shared my Python tweaks for the SXM HLS Proxy. Naturally, I couldn't leave well enough alone. I spent the last week porting the HLS P...

Happy #HPUD / Things are probably going to break... nectar v0.2.0 candidate

Hey everyone, Happy HPUD! As you can see from the screenshot, my contribution this month is a tiny one... only 7.005 HIVE. But if you look closely at the output...

Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use

Hey everyone, Running a Hive Engine node at home is a great way to support the ecosystem, but it comes with a hidden cost: Upload Bandwidth. Most residential in...

NectarEngine 0.1.4: Now with Less Failure

Hey everyone, Before today nectarengine relied on a single, hard-coded URL for its API calls, or one you provided. If that one node was slow, offline, or just h...