I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1385 - 4.25+ Years of Publishing Daily Hive Posts, Hive Swap Beta, and Agentic-AI Integration - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, May 13, 2026

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 7 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As of today, I've been writing and publishing 1-3 Hive posts every single day for the past 4 years, 3 months, and 13 days, or 1,563 days in total, which is a statistic that honestly blows my mind. I can't believe that it's been that long. I made it happen, no matter what, because I love and believe in Hive. During that time my perspective on Hive has matured, and become clearer and more accurate. Sadly, this greater awareness which developed over time has brought with it much disillusionment and disheartenment, because it make the dysfunctions on Hive all too apparent to me. I still love Hive, but I'd say that it's coming to a pivotal fork in the road soon, because it cannot sustainably continue down its present course, so we have something of a make-or-break situation approaching.

Regardless of the currrent path to ruin that Hive seems to have, there is also a surprising amount of development occurring across layer 1 and Layer of 2, and on many fronts, which does give me some hope. One new, and very useful development is the launch of a new asset-management frontend, HiveSwap, to complement @ecoinstant and @thecrazygm's recently launched BeeSwap replacement Liquidity Management, as well Hive Engine and Tribaldex. I haven't used it extensively yet, but it looks to be a solid asset-management interface, so I'll definitely be testing it out with my regular asset-management endeavors.

One very interesting aspect about HiveSwap is that it has a section with all necessary API information to build transaction workflows for dapps or scripts, which means that this is a data gold mine for my Hermes Agent, that it can directly use to create skills to connect to, and transact within, the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem, which is precisely what I've been wanting to do. I haven't explored that path yet, but I'm excited to do so very soon.

Since being able to make it possible for Hermes to initiate transactions in Hive's Layer 1 and layer 2 is approaching fairly soon, one thing that I still need to decide is how exactly to do so while keeping assets safe as I train it on what to do, and how to do it. This will likely entail the use of other accounts with small, isolated amounts of various tokens, that will serve as Hermes' training ground. First thing's first, though, so creating the skill framework for Hermes to be able to do so is next on the docket. Doing the same for Blurt and Qortal are also on my list.

Between implementing Hermes' capability to transact on Hive (eventually Blurt, Qortal, too, among others), and Hermes' developmental direction that will soon allow Hermes to control and manage entire device operating systems, such as my Arch/Artix Linux installations, my intention and goal to build a coherent and functional agentic operating system AgentOS, that integrates seamlessly with blockchain technology, and with my underlying FOSS-Linux-Arch/Artix systems, is moving quite quickly toward fruition. Agentic AI is allowing me to integrate my main tech passions into an elegant, interconnected whole. That prospect is extraordinarily interesting to me, and I'm working to make it happen.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by just after 1PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session went well, we wrapped it up by just before 5PM, after which I headed to Wabisabi to make myself some food, and to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before returning to the Flow House, to work a bit more with Hermes, to do a bit more agentic-AI research, and to begin on my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 10PM, and after a little more agentic-AI research, and one last round working with Hermes, I went to bed, very late again, by just before 12:45AM (yep, ouch). I woke up just about 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, working with Hermes some more, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then heading back to the Flow House, to work more with Hermes, and to write this post. It's now just after 1:30PM, so it's quite a good time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of these posts! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

2026 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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