The Crazy Blog

Hey everyone, In my previous post, I talked about why Hive-Engine nodes sometimes "limp along" instead of failing over cleanly when a primary RPC go

Hey everyone, Yesterday I got a letter in the mail that looked like it came from Trezor. Not an email. Not a text. A physical letter. And honestly, that is what made it more interesting to me. We are all used to talking about phishing as

Hey everyone, I wanted to write this while the work is still in motion instead of waiting until everything is polished and then pretending the path from problem to fix was cleaner than it really was. I have been digging into a Hive-Engine

Hey everyone, Lately I have been digging into a streamer issue on the Hive-Engine node that I think a lot of operators have probably felt, even if they did not immediately know where the problem lived. ![Screenshot_20260330_055546.jpg](h

Hey everyone, Lately I have been looking through ssc_tokens_history and thinking about what I would do if I decided to give the history node a proper modernization pass. This is not one of those "burn it all down and rewrite it in Rust"

Hey everyone, If you run a Hive-Engine node, this one might save you a few hours of chasing the wrong problem. I had a power outage, my machine came back up, and suddenly mongod would not stay running. At first glance it looked exactly

Hey everyone, I intended to avoid writing another update about my persistent exhaustion or my "jello-brain." However, the truth is unavoidable: I am incredibly tired. Since the words aren't wording properly, I am leaning into a music post

Hey everyone, I know it is Friday because the calendar insists on it, but my internal clock has lost all sense of time. Maintaining a reverse sleep schedule is a daily battle, and while I have managed to stay disciplined most days, the tol

Hey everyone, I have been quiet lately, though I am still lurking in the shadows. Transitioning to a graveyard shift (11 PM – 7 AM) has been a significant adjustment. "Adulting" is a demanding boss, and my off days have mostly been dedicat

Hey everyone, Following up on my last post, the tax tool update is officially live. I transitioned the parsing logic entirely to the frontend. ![The progress is nice, not perfect but nice.]([link]