In the past I used to "summarize" the transcript with AI to quickly catch up on the meeting.
This time I had to do the same starting with the whole video. Not a full transcript but sharing anyway as others may find it useful. Please let me know if not 100% accurate 😉
Hive Developer Meeting Notes
Below are the highlighted points from this week’s Hive developer meeting, with an emphasis on upcoming hard fork details, new API calls, and API limit changes.
Hard Fork Updates
- 🛎️ Tentative Date: Planned for February 18 (subject to confirmation).
- 🚦 Proposal Votes Fix: A small but important fix under consideration for inclusion.
- 🏷️ DHF Inflation Parameter: Potential adjustment to how proposal funding/inflation is allocated.
- 🚧 Future Changes: Major signing/cryptography overhauls and “light accounts” deferred to a later hard fork (possibly in 3–4 months).
API Changes & Code Updates
- 🚀 API Limits
- Agreed to use 1,000 as a default limit for most calls.
- A 1 MB payload limit is still a rough guideline for larger queries.
- 💾 New “Get Profiles” Call
- Multiple-account version of existing
get_profile. - Chosen
get_profilesas API name for clarity. - Centralizes code so there’s a single implementation.
- Multiple-account version of existing
- 🌐 Python Code Removal in Hivemind
- Legacy Python server code is almost fully removed, replaced by Postgres + C++ (HAF-based).
- Some Python logic remains (e.g., communities, muting reasons) for incremental cleanup.
- 🌀 Performance & Replay Enhancements
- Next release (RC17) speeds up replays from ~22 hours to ~16.5 hours.
- Internal testing: average API response times dropped from 45 ms to ~15 ms.
- No replay required if upgrading from RC16.
WAX (Hive Transaction Library)
- 🔑 TypeScript Version: Feature-complete, actively used in production.
- 🐍 Python Version: Under development, adding transaction-signing capabilities.
- 🩺 Health Checker: Integrated into WAX to monitor node/API states; a UI component is in testing.
Block Explorer & UI Enhancements
- 🔭 User Balance History: Dedicated page for each user’s balance changes (from Balance Tracker).
- 🗄️ Comment Search: Now available on individual user profiles.
- 📝 Single Post Raw Data: Page displaying raw JSON-like info for a specific post.
- 🕹️ Pagination Fixes: Resolved quirks and improved navigation across multiple views.
- 🔒 Memo Display: Will reintroduce default memo visibility on transfers, per user feedback.
Actifit Updates
- 🏋️ Expansion to Gym Workouts: Evolving from step tracking to full workout planning/scheduling.
- 🤖 AI Integration: Suggest workout routines, create fitness plans, and assist with content creation.
- ⌚ Wearable Integration: More smartwatch and phone health connectors on the roadmap.
TL;DR
- 🗓️ Hard Fork still planned for February with minor fixes (proposal votes, DHF parameters); major signature updates come later.
- 📜 API changes: A default 1,000 limit and new multi-account
get_profilesmethod. - ⚡ Performance gains in Hivemind/HAF replays (~16.5 hrs) and response times (~15 ms).
- 🔨 WAX library finalizing soon; TypeScript stable, Python catching up; Block Explorer gains advanced UI features.
This is surprisingly good ! What tool are you using ?
I used notegpt.io to get the transcript from the video.
And GPT o1 with this prompt to get the recap:
This is the transcript of a weekly meeting among developers of the Hive blockchain. Please highlight the main points discussed during the meeting with a focus on the upcoming hard fork. Include all specific details about code changes like new API calls and API limits. Use a structured bullet point list with different emojis for each item. At the end provide a short recap (TLDR) with the main concepts. The output should be in markdown so I can easily copy/paste the text into an external file. Transcript: ...