The Crazy Blog

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. ![screenshot-20260121-044215

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 sharpen my skills with the Go

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

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

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 Pincer: Splitting the rest

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 64GB of RAM, backed by fast SSD storage. I had a 25

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 of Btrfs snapshots without the performance hit on my root drive. However,

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 annoyance in my daily driver: Qtile. ![Still My Favorite WM]([link]

Hey everyone, A new Critical Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) is making the rounds in the database world. Dubbed MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847), this exploit allows attackers to siphon data directly from a MongoDB server's memory. ![Mongo Log

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 since I started blocking them, they didn't just stop, they doubled down.