Background from GIMP and completed using Keynote. I moved away from online services for making thumbnails.The last 5 weeks has been jam packed with many developments over here.
Network outage
Update: The witness is back up as of block 95,554,177. API node will remain unavailable as node operators have been instructed to update to v1.27.11.
A network outage occurred at Hive block 95,520,513 that took my Hive nodes offline today. This is very likely due to fibre cuts somewhere outside the premises.
Currently a secondary instance of VSC Blocks has been deployed on another VPS elsewhere. Most of it works excluding L1 transaction history and witness metadata. The other nodes remain offline until this issue resolves in the next 12-24 hours.
The previous witness backup node was recently decommissioned as it occasionally fails to catch up with head block. It now runs a VSC node instead. I will be looking for another provider in the next few weeks to host the backup witness node.
Aioha
I will be releasing Aioha v1.6.0 within the next 24-48 hours. This will be a major non-breaking release since the Aioha presentation back in September last year. More details on this will be posted on @aioha.
HiveFest 10
The annual international Hive meetup for 2025 has been announced today at a location that I would have never expected.
Last year's HiveFest in Split was spectacular and it was the best time of my life that I will always remember. It is highly likely that my attendance have influenced this year's location.
The biggest and obvious difference is that it is just a 30 to 45 minute commute for me (depending on traffic) instead of a 24 hour travel time each way. And it will be held at a central hotel or basecamp instead of distributed venues according to the announcement.
As always, I'm looking forward to see all of you again in person this year.
Contributions
Below are my contributions to various projects made in the last 10 days:
PeakD VSC Node Beacon (#48)
VSC node monitoring has been added to PeakD Node Beacon. You may find out more about it on their official post. Currently it monitors 9 GraphQL queries (one of which is a multicall), more queries will be added to the monitor as the VSC GraphQL schema develops.
A huge thanks to the PeakD team for providing me the opportunity to work on this.
Hive Ledger TypeScript API (#3)
Removed an unnecessary dependency to cut bundle size by half. Once merged and published, this will reduce Ledger vendor bundle size on Aioha from 504 KiB to 250 KiB uncompressed.