Nothing wrong with hexagons either 
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Thatād be an interesting looking package manager 
Back when I first started revNet I needed a bot to crawl RSS feeds, parse and rank them, and then convert the most recent 50 to LSON to post to a public server for revNetās news feed.
Around that time I had some other periodic tasks, so I added scripts for nightly network backups, monitoring, etc.
I called it LiveHive, and then went off on that, naming the central script Queen and the task scripts Workers and the folder they use for data storage Honey.
So of course I put a yellow hexagon in the window.
Itās been running every few minutes for more than 15 years, outlasting the original nettop and now due to be moved to a third. It continually scours ever sparser feeds for an ever smaller number of readersā¦
No oneās seen that window but me, despite hundreds having seen its work product in revNet/LiveNet.
The only relevance of this obscure tool fetish tale is that at one point Iād imagined there might be enough people using xTalk that it would become worthwhile to document the system and share it for anyone who needs to automate routine tasks and has a spare low-wattage computer they can leave on to run them. People might share Worker bees, there could be a repo for themā¦
But things went as they went, and besides: what is cron? 
cron is black magic 
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i need to rewrite my cron library to take advantage of threads, donāt i
Iām not too certain, would be good to test out the threading of the new engine.
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