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It all started innocently enough: sometime last summer, I ran into the blog post Start your own Internet Resiliency Club on Hacker News. …communicate with each other across a few kilometers without any centralized infrastructure using cheap, low-power, unlicensed LoRa radios and open source Meshtastic text messaging software. The idea of a local, infrastructure-free communications mesh sounded useful, especially as we were about to sail into the Pacific. Meshtastic While conflicts and natural…
Time is a precious resource for open source maintainers, especially if you aren’t doing it as part of paid work. The constant churn of changing development tools steals a huge chunk of that time. For example, I’m running NoFlo on a daily basis, but do changes to the library itself quite rarely. There were nearly six years between releases recently. The other day I wanted to add some functionality, and ran immediately to a huge set of issues with the development tooling we use. Basically…
We cruise on a small boat, a 31ft double-ender. As we’re off-grid the vast majority of the time, all electricity needs to be produced from renewable sources. Solar produces a lion’s share, but other sources are needed for overcast days. We don’t have space for a permanently mounted wind generator, so we converted a Superwind 350 to rigging-suspended. Why wind? As our 2024 cruise to the not-so-sunny Scotland demonstrated, there would still be place for wind power in the renewables mix of a…
