Performance Althea Development Update #52: Asking the right questions about performance Here’s our Alpha 6 release
DNS Outage report: False DNS responses When I was selecting the default DNS settings for the Althea firmware I wanted to choose a few publicly available but privacy focused DNS…
Ipv6 Outage report: ipv6 broadcast packets and old Ubiquiti radio firmwares On the week of June 4th we rolled out the Alpha 3 software update to Althea devices. Shortly thereafter the Clatskani network went down.
Rustlang Althea Development Update #50: Putting out fires in production Last update we created a ‘stable’ release channel and rolled out our latest and greatest to the 7 devices we had in production.
Rustlang Althea Development Update #49: A stable release schedule and governance For the first time we have something ready to put on our releases page.
Tech Althea Development Update #48: Bringing old buildings into the future These last couple of weeks have been an all out code sprint on our way to Alpha 3, productivity is pretty rapid now that the groundwork is…
VPN Althea Development Update #47: Alpha 2 Milestone I’m proud to announce the alpha 2 milestone for Althea. In Alpha 1 firmware setup was too tightly integrated into the build process to…
Mesh Networks Althea Development Update #46: User Interface Design It’s been an eventful couple of weeks for us.
Software Development Althea Development Update #45: Thinking about governance Now that we’ve had stuff in the field for a few weeks we’re rolling back our focus on shipping new users and instead focusing on polishing…
Tech Althea Development Update #44: Picking up steam Althea now has 4 full time users with more in the immediate pipeline and longer term plans shaping up.
Mesh Networks Althea Development Update #43: Website refresh, support for more routers Jehan and @scottwxrks have rounded out our website update over the past couple of weeks. We now have a map showing active Althea…
Raspberry Pi Althea Development Update #42: Serial Number Zero Its been a very busy two weeks since my last update.
Rust Althea Development Update #41: Proving out Rust and Network polish Since our last update we’ve managed to solve our Rust cross compilation issues pretty handily. There’s some binary size optimization that…
Rust Cross-compiling Complex Rust Programs for OpenWrt Targets We made Rust our language of choice for Althea because we wanted to have our cake and eat it to. The ability to use a rich ecosystem of…
Rust Althea Development Update #40: proc_macro and the language tradeoff I post bi-weekly development updates for Althea, in the past I’ve done this on Reddit but with development ramping up I’ve decided to move…
