A Feeling of Acomplishment
Hey everyone,
Have you ever been so enveloped in your work that you forget to eat, and you just can't walk away until it's done? That's been my life for the last little while.
The Project: Modernizing HSBI
I've recently had the honor of working on a major refactoring of the Hive SBI (@steembasicincome) codebase. The primary task was to migrate the entire system from the old beem library to my hive-nectar library.
Working on a system that's been running for nearly eight years is like a form of digital archaeology. The codebase was filled with commented-out sections, parts that were no longer in use, and some legacy pieces whose original purpose was a complete mystery. To make things even more challenging, the only way to test changes was to do it manually in a live environment, which required a lot of careful work. While I was in there, I also did a massive spring cleaning, removing dead code, unused imports, and variables that served no purpose.
I can now safely say that the codebase has been thoroughly modernized and cleaned up, and I'm incredibly proud of the result. I also learned a tremendous amount about how the intricate HSBI system actually works.
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Commits
To give you a sense of the work that's gone into this, I ran the repository through my git analysis script. The spike in activity for 2025 speaks for itself.
What's Next
I'll leave the official announcements to the HSBI team, but if I've been absent or have neglected anything recently, it's because my head has been completely in this project. The work isn't fully "done" as far as everything that's planned, but this refactoring marks a huge milestone that @team.mithril has achieved.
If you are interested in seeing the changes, the official GitHub repo is: https://github.com/josephsavage/hive-sbi-v2
As always,
Michael Garcia a.k.a. TheCrazyGM
Running tests directly on the live system takes guts, that kind of careful pace reminds me of month end close, one wrong move and you spend hours reconciling :).
Seeing you still keep it stable while doing all that cleanup is impressive, the changes looks huge.
From an ops view, this will make ADmin and maintenance flow so much smoother, definately a win for users too.
It's also why there's so many commits. There was a lot of emergency patches. Always made sure I was ready to jump on the errors as fast as possible. It never went completely down though. Certain parts of the loop may have not run each round, but it was never taken offline.
That is extraordinarily impressive, my friend, big congratulations! Bringing an old code base up to date while it's still running, makes my head spin just thinking about it. You're a coding badass, dude! 😁🙏💚✨🤙