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That's how quickly life goes nowadays, at least for me. And I am sure many will feel the same, and the best recommendation I have is to enjoy moments as much as possible. Avoid wasting time with lots of things at the same time, and taking on many things at the same time before finishing any ongoing ones.

This week, I had a couple of not so nice surprises. First, my very old Sony TV decided to go "blank", and this weekend I finally had time to troubleshoot it, and it looks like my T-CON card is gone. A common problem with these models, apparently.

How it looks like a brand new one:
(source)

And mine, broken for some reason:

After inspecting, I didn't catch any "problems", and measured feed voltages from the power board, and they look fine too. So, I can only guess something inside the chip, fries or wears out.

Will probably buy a new TV, most likely, because even replacing this is around 100 NZD (if I have to order from out of NZ), this is still a substantial cost, vs buying a new TV. And if this is going to happen again, then I don't want to spend more money on this one. I will try to sell this for parts if I can, and if I can't, I will just recycle it.

The second surprise was my UPS protecting against a short circuit. And because when UPSs detected these, they shut down, all the infrastructure I am running from Home turned off. Unsure where that short came from, but I suspect it came from a combination of factors. Hopefully not within the UPS itself. I will be monitoring from now on, and if it recurs, then I am going to try running without it.

The good outcome of that was how quickly I was able to bring everything back 2 days ago, with the exception of the API node, where I had something not quite right on my script, and because it was already too late, my head was just not working. So I went to bed, and yesterday, before going to bed, I just figured it out. Set it to synchronise overnight, and this morning everything was fine.

The last month has been hectic for me. Lots of work, and very little time to shill. I think that the time spent writing this post might have been the most relaxing time I have had lately (since March).

Anyhow, these times will pass! But if you're wondering why this post is not going to be that big, well, that's the main reason, the month FLASHED! And I am just trying to make up time to be with family, too.

I want to comment on what many might have been observing around Hive (in terms of dApps), more or less, since the beginning of the year. And, this is not a criticism, but instead a call for your interest to be challenged, given the impact this will have around the world, is just going to start accelerating even more (my opinion/view).

And having explored a couple during March, I have to say. I think this new era of AI is bringing new, refreshing versions of apps that might not have been the best looking ones previously or didn't do exactly what everyone wanted. Basically, more choices! Most of these are just "interfaces" or tools that interact with the Blockchain layers (L1 and L2's), but I think this was a big barrier previously, both because there were not so many webdevelopers out there eager to explore Hive, and because using the right API calls or reading documentation, was not as easy to understand for many, as it is now, if using a simple agent, like claude.

Not intentionally trying to focus on a particular one, but just because it was one that I enjoyed lots, and it's not available anymore, that's beeswap.dcity.io, you will find more things like this happening this year. And that's sort of a consequence of very fast development supported by what people now call "vibe coding" (coding assisted by "AI" agents) and fast changing interests by everyone, in a bear market where it's hard to get funded.

And that's not necessarily bad, but it's hard for many, and will confuse a couple of people. So, if you get somehow "frustrated" by not being able to access something that previously was your comfort zone, go to. Please ask around first and give as much information about the problem as you possibly can. There are lots of alternatives that many of us know, or you might just spark someone to create what you need.

In this case, just to wrap up the topic, there are alternatives to BeeSwap. You can (if you like) still use tribaldex.com, or if you want to try @thecrazygm one, here for the ATX:SWAP.HIVE pool, for example, which I personally think is quite good, and in due time, will be able to provide more feedback, and/or contribute directly.

And please! PLEASE!!! Do investigate things before using them, and NEVER put your private keys into something you are just testing for the first time, especially the active private key. There are lots of scammers out there.

If you want to try new things, create a new account where you have no risk of losing any crypto. And if you can't create one, let me know, I can do it for you (as well as many people around here). Explore, but do it safely!

Not much time for this section this month. But a quick and dirty drop of links, just in case people don't know about them yet. This is not necessarily new apps, but they were New to me.

https://hivepredict.app
https://sportsblock.app
https://hive-lotto.app
https://hiveword.xyz (a lot of you know this one now)
https://dhenz14.github.io/norse-mythos-card-game
https://hive-ships.com
https://hive.coldbeetrootsoup.com

There is probably more I missed on the insane amount of open tabs. But this should give you an idea of what I was trying to say previously. Please provide feedback if you can to the creators of these things, as that helps them shape what they are working on.

And if you have ideas about new things, please. Bring in the crazy good ones. 🤣😍😉🤗

I really enjoyed this new way of discovering Hive posts... https://hivecomb.net developed by @pharesim. Didn't have yet time to go do a deep dive, but the little time I had, it was like a more "distributed" way of finding posts. And that randomness, and the ability to see more content in a different context, was very interesting.

Have you given it a try? What did you think about it?

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