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Michael Garcia

@thecrazygm

Solving IT puzzles and crafting Python solutions. When not coding, I'm rolling dice in RPGs, navigating Linux (MCMXCVI), and keeping a keen eye on the Crypto...

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Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Aug 25, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC

Making Hive-Engine Nodes Do Less Waiting

I have been continuing the small, careful performance work on the Hive-Engine node. This time the change is less about adding a new operator setting and more about removing two bits of avoidable wait…

240 upvotes 4 replies $11.30
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Aug 16, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

The Ghost in the Bestiary: The Pathfinder Monster That Doesn't Exist

If your Pathfinder 1e druid wants to summon a Black Bear, or your ranger wants one as an animal companion, your first instinct is to pull open the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary and flip to the "B" section.…

198 upvotes 12 replies $6.81
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Aug 8, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

PR #138 - A Couple of Useful Knobs for Hive-Engine Nodes

Hey everyone, I have been spending some time in the Hive-Engine node codebase, looking at a larger list of possible performance and lite-node improvements. I decided not to start with the flashy stuf…

183 upvotes 1 replies $7.02
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jul 30, 2026, 1:45 PM UTC

Hoverfly: A Local Hive Mock for Testing Without a Testnet

I have been working on a small project called Hoverfly, and it is finally at the point where I am comfortable showing it to other Hive developers. The short version is this: Hoverfly is a single-bina…

247 upvotes 19 replies $2.84
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jul 19, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC

Playing Traffic Cop, Part Two: When the Cop Pulls Over Everybody

Hey everyone, A little follow-up to my original Playing Traffic Cop - Limiting the bandwith Hive-Engine can use post. In that post, I wrote about using Linux tc (Traffic Control) to keep my Hive Engi…

669 upvotes 3 replies $8.04
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jul 17, 2026, 12:22 PM UTC

Moon Has Moved to Finland

Hey everyone, Quick little infrastructure update today. The Moon server migration is officially done, and everything went a lot smoother than I honestly expected. The old DigitalOcean droplet has bee…

322 upvotes 8 replies $7.33
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jul 10, 2026, 11:45 AM UTC

A Good Week for Small Hive-Engine Fixes

Hey everyone, This was a good week. I had two Hive-Engine related PRs accepted: - Wiki documentation cleanup: #8 - Comments contract app tax fix: #137 ## The Documentation PR The first PR was a clean…

340 upvotes 2 replies $5.43
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jul 5, 2026, 9:54 AM UTC

An Accidental Stress Test for Hive-Engine Data Integrity

Hey everyone, I ended up running a brutal, unplanned stress test on my new Hive-Engine data integrity branch this morning. The short version: my witness host went through about five hard restarts and…

369 upvotes 11 replies $9.38
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jul 1, 2026, 12:23 PM UTC

Fixing Data Integrity Issues in Hive-Engine Nodes

I have been digging into a class of problem that is deeply frustrating from an my experience: data loss and corruption after power outages or hard resets. If you run a Hive-Engine node, you have prob…

202 upvotes 22 replies $7.65
Michael Garcia
@thecrazygm Jun 26, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC

The Final Chapter: dCity's 70,000 HIVE Claimdrop Has Been Distributed!

Hey everyone, Today, June 26th, 2026, at 10:00 AM EDT, the final dCity claimdrop closed. After 8 years, after hundreds of thousands of HIVE paid out to players, after the game shut down, the treasury…

207 upvotes 2 replies $3.35