{"id":106,"date":"2026-08-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.agilethemes.com\/overtone\/?p=106"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:00:00","slug":"forty-hives","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/episodes\/forty-hives\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty hives and a laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sol Bergman spent a decade writing payment systems, then moved to the edge of the Fens to keep bees. He talks about seasons, patience and the hive scale he built from a bathroom scale and a microcontroller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In this episode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Trading sprints for seasons<\/li><li>What forty hives teach you about patience<\/li><li>The homemade hive scale<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bees don\u2019t do deadlines. They do weather.<\/p>\n<cite>Sol Bergman<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mentioned in the show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">Sol\u2019s honey and hive notes<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/\">The Beekeeper\u2019s Handbook<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Long Way Round is listener supported. If this episode meant something to you, <a href=\"https:\/\/example.com\/members\">become a member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bonus conversation with Sol Bergman, who left payment software for beekeeping and still writes code, mostly for the bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_overtone_audio_url":"\/wp-content\/plugins\/overtone-podcast\/assets\/demo\/placeholder-silence.m4a","_overtone_audio_id":0,"_overtone_duration":"33:05","_overtone_file_size":212544,"_overtone_mime":"audio\/mp4","_overtone_episode":6,"_overtone_season":2,"_overtone_type":"bonus","_overtone_explicit":false,"_overtone_chapters":"0:00 From payments to pollen\n11:42 Seasons, not sprints\n22:40 A scale for every hive","_overtone_transcript":"[0:00] Maya: Sol, the last time we spoke you were on call for a payments system at three in the morning.\n[0:07] Sol: And now I\u2019m up at five because the bees are. It\u2019s a better reason to be awake.\n[11:42] Sol: Software runs in two-week sprints. Bees run in one-year seasons. You can\u2019t ship spring early.\n[22:40] Sol: Each hive sits on a scale I built from a bathroom scale and a tiny computer. When the weight jumps, the nectar is flowing.\n[22:56] Maya: So you didn\u2019t leave code behind.\n[22:59] Sol: I left behind code that nobody loved. This code tells me when to make honey.","_overtone_video_url":"","footnotes":""},"guest":[8],"topic":[12,14],"class_list":["post-106","episode","type-episode","status-publish","hentry","guest-sol-bergman","topic-career-change","topic-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episode"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"guest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guest?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agilethemes.com\/demo-overtone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}