My wallpaper screenshot. If you know who drew it tag the artist and win a mystery prize. First tagger wins. Artist can't participate.
It's been a busy hardfork ramp up, week and ongoing work so far.
We do this once a year so its easy to forget how much work is involved in getting everything set up for it, both in terms of personal witness tech and in relation to Hive in general. Any major milestone for Hive is a massive undertaking by everyone involved. Like always, things could have been done better and with a better lead time from my end, particularly when it comes to communication.
One of the servers had an unexpected hardware issue and crashed the week prior to last, taking with it a good portion of infrastructure. Fortunately nothing was lost and none of the critical pieces were on it. It still took time to resolve and other things ended up being pushed back.
That same week I took vacation (just less hours in) at the behest of my family. Wouldn't recommend doing this kind of thing while under pressure from various sources and long story short (and its not my intention to become a degenerate who only whines about medical problems no one cares about) but I ended up with intermittent sharp pinpoint type migraines during that whole thing. I haven't said anything to almost anyone about that until now in case the situation escalated but it seems to have resolved itself about mid-last week. Until then it made it impossible to focus. Never had anything like that but age is creeping up so its not much I can say here.
Anyhow, that's not that important but what is important is that there are a lot of real positive events and initiatives coming to Hive. As a @valueplan keyholder I am privy to a lot of these; Latin American events are taking off to a point where I wouldn't be surprised if Hive became a household name in some places. We're taking some unexpected avenues in publicity rather than just buying our way in.
Hive is a grass-roots initiative by blockchain enthusiasts that couldn't be bought or sold. That's why everyone who is here is here. Hive is owned by the community and through that public ownership is able to have a genuine impact on local economies. It is not based in any one country and is instead based in every country where our community members reside.
Due to this, these community members take all that Hive has to offer both qualitatively through the human element and quantitatively through monetization and communal funds and action the change they want to see while highlighting Hive. I guarantee you no other technology has free water wells or street workout exhibitions. The world wants to see impact and Hive in itself is the personification of that impact. That's the power of true decentralization. That is how I view it.
I can go on until no end on this topic but I'll spare you. Anyhow, once again, back to the main topic. The api.hive.blue full node is back up in its entirety. You can monitor nodes on Peakd's Beacon https://beacon.peakd.com as needed.
This post took almost a week to write. I start starting and stopping as real issues come up. Writing a post isn't a real issue. It's time consuming and I'm not great at this type of personal expression.
What I need to do is get organized to a professional level and set up some real project planning tools. The way I'm working right now with just cycling through tasks I shouldn't be doing because that's not the right way to set up priority and meet deadlines. Recommendations welcome. I'm not a huge fan of Basecamp or Monday. Others I'll tolerate. Trello potentially although I find it insufficient.