Updates

It's been a while since my last update on Earthstar and Willow. Sorry. It's not been for lack of progress: Aljoscha and I have been working hard on specifications, on the TypeScript implementation of Willow, and on an exciting addition to t...

Earthstar LAN sync Earthstar v10.2.0 can now automatically discover other Earthstar peers on a local network and sync with them over an encrypted TCP connection. This feature is enabled by the new DNS-SD implementation...

A change of plans · Last year I shared that this year's package of developments funded by NLnet would include 'complete encryp...

Happy new year! I'm very happy to find myself writing a second "Earthstar January update". What's happened since No...

I'm deep into the development of the next major version of Earthstar, but will be travelling until the beginning of July. Until then, I'd like to leave you with an idea of how Earthstar Squirrel is shaping up. Like its name...

A lot has changed since my last update in January, much of it bad. Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where much of my family lives, has made it hard to focus. And last week I received some news which I'd hoped against hope I'd never have to hea...

This is a ground-up rebuild of Earthstar which has been in the making since last April. It brings a lot of new features, the foundations for more to come, and is about as breaking as breaking changes get.There are new features, APIs, and co...

It's a cold dark January evening here, and I'm writing this while seated next to my (happily snoozing) two month old. I'm happy to report that it's been a good month, with lots of progress to report. I hope the rest of the year is like this...

It's been a year and a half since I began contributing to the Earthstar project. The project's aim is to provide a toolbox for users who want to operate their own online utilities: their own personal file sync; a blog publishing system; gra...