Every week as part of my active STEEM witness campaign a #witness-update post is written to bring the community up to speed on what's been going on in regards to the development of the handful of projects I'm currently working on. Overall it was a somewhat productive week with a few of my projects moving forward or finding much needed maintenance performed on them.
This Week as STEEM Witness
STEEM.GLOBAL Migrated to New Server
Earlier this week the STEEM.GLOBAL project was moved to a new, larger server in order to keep up with the increasing demand in system requirements to run a steemd seed node or witness instance. Still fighting with some odd random crashing so in the process of creating a monitoring script to restart the seed node and wallet if needed. Oddly enough had zero issues with my main witness server since HF19 (knock on wood) but my STEEM.GLOBAL seed node has been nothing but issues. The faucets next generation of software has been located as well however it will take some time and testing before the faucet is opened to the public.
One new feature on STEEM.GLOBAL is the ability to check the status of the wallet right on the site. Simply scroll to the bottom of any page and check to see the service you are trying to utilize is lit up green before attempting to use it. Example below:
Minimum withdrawal has been raised to 1 STEEM to skirt an elusive withdrawal bug that intermitently caused failure to send to user account but affected user balance. If you've had any issue with withdrawal requests not showing up please get a hold of me in the comments below with your withdraw # so I can investigate and correct the issue.
Will get the wallet stability and monitoring/restart automation done up in the next few days here and get the faucet running when I have time to again. not sure of an ETA but it won't be till after Tippy is released likely.
Tippy Trails Bring Testers Treasures!
Having the chance to win them big bucks while doing so! Instead of the classical software testing approach I've decided to use gamification in order to attract testing help.
The Tippy project also saw some progress and some public tests were carried out offering good prizes in order to see how the system performed under load. More work is required to get the final leg of development of Tippy completed but it's launch is nearing. For every bug I fix another one seems to appear but eventually the game of software engineering whack a mole shall be over with me prevailing over my own code blunders! Appreciate everyone's patience and help with the project thus far. Big things coming in the near future from my workshop. If you're a software developer looking to get involved or help let me know! Always willing to brainstorm and share knowledge with young up and coming developers.
Thy Precious Cometh!
On a fun side note a wonderful package showed up earlier this week containing an extremely unique hand crafted STEEM ring by @samether. I've only taken it off to shower so far. No matter where I go the STEEM network will now be carried around on my pinky in the form of a beautiful silver ring.
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