https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE65YTbXiEw
@howo
So this is our 61st meeting I think,
@mcfarhat
I had no idea you were keeping count.
@blocktrades
I think you can only see some on YouTube, they have to be numbered.
@mcfarhat
Yeah, true.
@howo
It's the 61st, yes, congratulations. On my end, I am still looking on some of the hivemind stuff, trying to merge my stuff. The issue, I mean, it's what I spoke about last time. I need to basically do the merge conflict and the SQL has changed and so I need to dig into this. So I worked a bit into this, but then Krim came back to me and showed like, hey, do you have any news on the Reseta API? Which is something that I basically stopped doing three-quarter of the way, because there wasn't that much interest into it. And so I figured I'd finish this before moving into the hivemind stuff again. Also because I'm a bit tired of working on the deep PGS SQL stuff. And so I'm trying to wrap this up and then I'll finish the hivemind and then I'll be free-ish for new work and I don't know when I'll pick up then.
@blocktrades
Okay, cool. How's the Reseta stuff look? I mean, you think it'll be done, do you have any idea how long this could take to finish it?
@howo
I don't really have the issue. I'm done with most of the endpoints, but there is some stuff that I'm struggling with. Mostly submitting raw transactions where they want you to be able to build a transaction offline, sign it, and then submit the payload to an API.
@blocktrades
Okay, so you're talking about hive transactions?
@howo
Yeah.
@blocktrades
Okay, you might want to look at the wax stuff that they've got.
@howo
Yeah, for sure. The issue is not very familiar. So I'd need to do some extra learning on my end. So there is a bit of that and there is also all of the actual load testing, aka like spinning a real node, a real fill node, and making the API work in real life conditions because I've only tried it in a testnet. So I don't know how performance-wise it's going to go. And for that, I need to spin up a machine. I don't have a machine, so I need to buy a machine. Anyways.
@blocktrades
Gotcha. It might be to do something on a mirrornet too, maybe. And I've also been trying to get a mirrornet set up.
@howo
Oh yeah, how is that going?
@blocktrades
I think you ran into some problems with the power outage.
@gtg
Yeah, I'm in the middle of starting it back again. And you can imagine how painful it is when it comes to thinking hivemind from the start.
@blocktrades
For sure. Been there.
@howo
Yeah, that's what I'm working on.
@blocktrades
Okay. I actually probably go last unless anybody else wants to go first, just so I'll have more time and because I don't know how long I want to talk. Anybody else want to take it next?
@mcfarhat
I can give some updates. At least on the work we're doing on the hive explorer. So over the past couple of months, we've been doing a lot of work helping out with the whole UI interface. We've added a lot of components to the account page. There's the summary wallet, there's the delegations, resting delegations, RC delegations. We've been working on some formatting, improvement to the layout overall. Witnesses page. We're collaborating with Dan and the team about different things that might need to be improved with the backend, with indexing, with sorting. So there's a lot of work being done there. We're trying to expand and maybe help out on other areas as much as we can. I had actually three resources available earlier, but now I have one, so I'm trying to see if I can add more. And I'm doing some development myself as well. So I manage the guys and I do some development whenever I can. Yeah, we're just trying to give some help on this end. So generally this is it about the help on that side. On ActiveFit, we're doing a lot of updates. We just pushed the iOS version update last week. We pushed an update to the web version last week as well, but we didn't announce it yet. We have an upcoming Android version, hopefully by end of month with more updates. Yeah, that was just quickly my update.
@blocktrades
Sounds great. And a little more update there at the end.
@mcfarhat
I think Dan, there's a couple of MRs I think they're pending. Maybe they just need now some modifications. I don't know if they can be merged directly.
@blocktrades
Yeah, you're talking about the ones you guys have done, right?
@mcfarhat
Yeah, true.
@blocktrades
Yeah, I left a couple of them open because they were more complicated and I wanted Jakob to look at those. I merged in some of them. In fact, I merged in one, I think yesterday, in fact. I think the ones that were the ones that I left open, I just kind of was going to ask him about and he was on vacation. He just got back.
@mcfarhat
It's vacation time, it's August, you would expect it.
@blocktrades
Yeah, a lot of vacation right now.
@mcfarhat
I'll try to add a few more issues, maybe enhancements to the blog explorer. Hopefully in the coming couple of days, we will see if we can add some more features or find some issues that can be resolved because the pipeline is getting narrow.
@blocktrades
Yeah, if you've got any more issues to create, that's also great. I need to keep another guy busy and working on that too.
@mcfarhat Yeah, Lucas. All right, awesome. And my guy as well, I told him I'll send you something tomorrow.
@blocktrades
Okay. Sounds good.
@mcfarhat
All right.
@blocktrades
I want to talk about what they're working on right now.
@gtg
Okay, I guess he was early.
@blocktrades
Yeah, kind of a new guy here so.
@sagar
Okay, hello. Thank you for allowing me to speak and allow me to go first. So, my name is Sagar. And in our language, Sagar means ocean. I'm from India. And this is the first time I'm joining this four days meeting. I'm working on the network projects, two of them are distributed and the three speak. Now let's talk about the three speak first. I'm working with low finance and with them to integrate the field speak so that they can have the feature to publish short content. And there are almost that upload part or video publishing part. Now they are moving to the next stage which is showing the short content within the video platform. And about that, I'm going to communicate and have them understand how to implement. And that's the same functionality which we already have in three speak application. So if you haven't downloaded the three speak mobile application, I will recommend you to download the three speak app. And within that we have like two more many applications. One of them is podcast application. And the other one is three shots and in your finances also trying to achieve the same feature functionality, which is the three shots that we have in three speak application. Working on that and of course, while we have these integrations, we tend to find the documentation. Then to find the documentation updates, I keep updating the document. And I provide the daily updates like on high blockchain. I put out a post daily that are two accounts using which I'm publishing the post about which I will talk soon. Other than this, there are small small box fixes and improvement which I keep on doing on three speak, for example, right now I'm required to submit another bird to Google Play Store for three speak mobile application. If I don't do that before the 31st of this month, they will, I don't know. Maybe some, some strict action. So I need to work on it and pre upload a bird with the updated API target or something like that. Now this theater, this theater, I think they did an event yesterday or day before yesterday and it was a successful event. Approximately 40/50 members, they claimed the discount after paying in the activity and lightning sex. So after the event starters, suggested a couple of improvements and working on those improvements as well. Apart from that, apart from this improvements, there are ongoing deployments which I keep on doing on beta because so far business management, it's done using another website called wave you and we have a website called spend which which is like on a bit through the radio platform. So right now businesses are added on that. And after that, we can add it on the district. So right now what I'm working on is like the business management should be done on this theater directly. Business guides or administrators, they should be able to add the businesses, verified businesses on this theater platform directly. And it should go other way around like, you know, once we add it here on this theater, it should go and reflect on radio and spend activity as well. So that's what you're working on it's on data on top of that the other requirement is that like, you know, whenever I'm trying to add a business, I should be able to find all the place details like you know you zoom into a particular place this is the restaurant on Google maps you can see the photographs you can see all the details website for number and work timings and everything. So I've integrated Google places API Google photos API, and with that, we are trying to make a smoother experience a better experience for business guides to add a business and so far we have onboarded 300 businesses across the world. And in order to see like, you know, how many businesses, what all you have to do is just go to this theater.com. And then once you land on that from the left side, you would see businesses. And you would see the businesses which are added so far. And now if you are interested in knowing which country with city on top right corner. Next to the search button you find a filter. So you find all the countries over there. And this it is. So, these are the businesses which we have added so far. What's next in this industry as we're planning to add more and more businesses that's there. On top of that, we're also trying to support the online purchase. So the businesses with support online shopping. And let's say you get a delivery after a day. So what would happen after a week, what would happen so far the limit to claim it's it's around 30 minutes or up to two hours on you. So you're working on this theater to support online businesses as well. And these are two projects on which I'm actually working. Now, these are the projects coming under speaking. Now, on top of this, I have my own ideas, own applications, which I can say self funded, and which I would like to build for hiding the system. So I have this application called inbox or say hiring box, and it's heavily inspired by things against application. Engaged, and it's so that's one, and there are more applications like this, which I would like to build, like high polls, high work. What means many that you can work for a proposal or work for a witness and donate and chat. So these are the ideas that I have in my mind to build for the high platform and put it on App Store because if you go on App Store or play store so far we have just two apps, or three apps. You know, you can count it at fingers. I'm teaching. I want to speak and the sense now from this, if you say, do we have any other app on the app store or play store, we don't. If you want to have more users from web to platform to web three, which is high, we need to have a presence on web to platform as well. And that's what my goal is like we provide number of applications on App Store. So with that, we can showcase like we can give them a portfolio of applications that these are the apps that we are offering. And I know that we do have a list of apps on, on Hive IOB apps, but having app on App Store and play store also makes an impact. Of course, not for web three users, but it does make an impact to web to users. And that's, that's why I'm building this application. But if you guys think that instead of working on this ideas, which I'm like, no, working on my own, if you have some better idea, some, some ideas, if you have, feel free to share and work on it. Yeah, so that sums up my update.
@blocktrades
Okay, sounds good. I don't know if anybody had any immediate questions. I have one question. I didn't really understand. You mentioned short content. Was that like short content? I think that's what you said was that like short content like, like tweets or is it more like short content like shorts and video. Okay, okay. Okay, that's, that's what I think I assumed it might be videos probably videos but that's,
@sagar
Yes. It is videos.
@blocktrades
Okay. Anybody else of our games that you want to talk about anything you've been working on lately or
@Arcange
You're here about something I work because I'm still on vacation. But I just have one question you recently released the preview of the rest API.
@blocktrades
Yes. Yeah, I was going to talk about that.
@Arcange
You will talk about it.
@blocktrades
Yeah, I was planning on it. If you had specific questions you can ask.
@Arcange
Yeah, my question was, is there any work being done in coordination with what good karma was doing about revamping the wall developer portal. I've had any news about his progress on that that work but I would like to know if there was some coordination made.
@blocktrades
Not exactly. Basically, the, they're kind of, there's kind of like two forms of documentation I guess you could say the swagger docs are just kind of like, I mean, I think they're very useful. Honestly, I think they're the most important form of docs for in my opinion, because they give you like a nice easy way to test an API call very quickly right you could just go to the web page and add some parameters and see the results and for me that's often and it's got a short description. I really like the swagger style of documentation a lot, but there is kind of this other form of documentation which is more conceptual in nature right which is sort of gives you an overview of, you know, the whole hive programming environment and, you know, software development environment and should talk more about like, you know, how you'd go about developing an API, how you'd go about using an API, you know. There's, there's different pieces I think so that kind of documentation is, I think, I mean, the website we have now the high development website now kind of does both right it describes the API calls. And it also has more high level stuff that gives you general theory of hive programming. And so I think the swagger I see the swagger part is sort of replacing the existing function by function description. But it's obviously we still always need that hard to high level conceptual description and so that's where I see, you know, that we haven't done a lot on that side, we've been mainly focused on just the that the low level documentation for all the new API calls. I haven't directly talked to good karma much but I mean he was, I think he was, I mean, it's kind of two different efforts to because he's documenting the existing API, whereas we're really the swagger docs are all documenting the new rest API. So, with that maybe I'll just sort of that probably answers your question immediately and I'll just sort of go over what we're doing a little bit more. So, I was kind of wondering really what to talk about today because it's been a while since we met and a lot of stuff's been going on and I don't really think I have time to go through a lot of it. And I'm going to put a write a post, probably in a week or two that describes in more detail some of the stuff we're doing. But I did want to talk a little bit about the thing that arcane just mentioned which is the rest API stuff because that's quite new, and sort of part of the new direction we're going in. So, this all for me started, I guess, when we first started when I first got launched. We were all talking about redoing the API because the, you know, the existing legacy API that we had is kind of a bit of a, I mean it's powerful but it's a bit of a mess, and you know it's been created over time so we kind of talked about refactoring a lot of things and organizing it more and making it more efficient. And so, for the least of the past two years I'd say that's kind of where I've been focusing our efforts but it's been trying to do it in a kind of incremental way. So, the first thing I kind of wanted to do is get HAF working because HAF is basically a method of creating new API so that it makes it easier for anybody to create a new API for hive. So, before we had hivemind but other than that if you want to create APIs, there was no standardized way to do it. You could go into Hive D itself and modify Hive D but that was kind of problematic because every time you add a new API called a Hive D that increases the load on our network nodes and we really don't want to do that. So, I mean everybody kind of got the idea that what we really need to do is get the data out into a database and work with it there. But I didn't really want to have everybody creating their own different database structures that were incompatible and couldn't work together. So, the whole point of Hive was sort of create a common database infrastructure that could then be used by API nodes to quickly add new APIs to their stacks. And, you know, I think we've accomplished that pretty well now and we've got to, I think we've got a good flow. The last release we did with the HAF API node stuff really solidified an easy way to add new API sets to an API node server itself. And so, the next step is we're looking at is, so far we've, we have added a new few new APIs like Balanced Tracker and HAF Block Explorer and things like that. But we, so next kind of phases I wanted to move away from the JSON RPC style calls that we've had for so long to a more, I think a more natural REST based interface. So, we've been working on that for the past, I guess, several months at least. And that, that takes, there's several parts to this. So, the first thing is we needed to add these APIs to our HAF, HAF applications. So, we've added a REST based interface to basically Balanced Tracker, HAF Block Explorer, what else, reputation tracker. So, just as an aside Reputation Tracker is a new app we've created that basically just, it just takes out the one, the calculation for the reputation that we're in hivemind and brings it into a separate application. So, we've added a REST based interface for that and one more I'm trying to remember what it is. HAF of itself, I think I missed that one. So, even HAF itself now has a REST based application API and when we did that we also moved some of the more useful functions that existed inside the HAF Block Explorer API server into Hafa. And the reason we did that was those are all API calls that didn't require any indexing. So, one of the differences between the HAF application and all the other HAF apps is that there's no indexing required to get it ready. It's, if once HAF is indexed, once HAF itself is indexed, HAF is indexed. So, that's kind of a nice feature about it. It's very low overhead in that sense. So, you can get it going pretty quick. So, I mean, like kind of a minimal API node, HAF API node will have, can have HAF already out of the box. So, as much as possible, whenever there's a functions that can be written that don't require any additional indexes or tables, I've kind of decided I'm going to sort of try to move them towards the Hafa interface just so that those things are available immediately without replays of other apps. So, we did move several, I think, very natural calls from the HAF Block Explorer interface directly into Hafa. And if you've had a chance to look at the new REST API interface, you'll see there's several new such API calls available. I think everybody here's probably already seen, I'm guessing most have already seen the new interface, but I'm going to put it in here just in case anyone h