The sun is out in Scotland — perfect timing for the easter break — and that means two things.
- We have just a matter of days to gather a years worth of vitamin D
- A trimmed back dev update this week, but no less progress.
General Update
A whistle-stop tour of progress here:
@roland has been working on automatic NAT detection that would allow us to set the right flags for each router type, for e.g, set --relay or --upnp or --ip without manually figuring things out. This would be optional for now but will be made default in the future.
@chriso is working on supporting multi-region deployments so we can deploy the alpha network for Impossible Futures in a different region in Digital Ocean, and I’m also supporting various testing scenarios for investigating performance related to uploads/downloads.
@qi_ma has been analyzing the devnet runs result of the 1.2.13 release to help it through the release process and then tracking community feedback, and monitoring improvements. behaviours on dashboard and generic nodes’ logs, to confirm the effectiveness and figure out places for improvements.
Plus he’s worked on PR 2871 raised to make client no longer carry out periodical network discovery , PR 2872 & PR 2879 to improve the network discovery refresh scheme efficiency, and PR 2878 to resolve a potential risk of stalling network discovery refresh.
Ermine has been on the libp2p e2e tests and cracking a way to access the quic connection to nodes outside out of libp2p, in an effort to communicate to nodes directly without being dependent on libp2p.
@mick.vandijke reviewed both our and libp2p’s Kademlia implementation, identified potential concerns, and worked on resolving them.
@Shu worked on the ELK7 to ELK8 migration and setup documentation. Plus he also worked on establishing connectivity between different DO regions for different types of simulated antnode droplets (public and private), with integrated internal monitoring solutions.
@bzee is working on the nodejs APIs and reworking project Dave (oh, hi again Dave!) to work on the main network.
@Anselme is working on investigating kad and network performance
@rusty.spork has been collaborating with @riddim to begin setting up an (un)official Autonomi merch shop. Please note that all items and prices are currently placeholders. The shop is expected to be fully operational in May. There are plans to accept USDC across all major chains for payments. Still work to be done but you can check it out here
X Spaces with Bux and David tomorrow
A fun (and somewhat mysterious) one for you… @Bux will be hosting @dirvine on an X spaces tomorrow at 4pm BST.
Tune in or miss out!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1kvKpyLvlkMGE
Impossible Futures Podcast
And finally, for those who haven’t spotted it yes, check out our latest episode of the Impossible Futures podcasts, featuring none other than @Nigel
A really wide-ranging and engaging conversation — and some real challenges for you builders to get stuck in to!
tf = usdc
Congratulations to the Jams developers 
Being in Tasmania, I feel your pain. I have a garden that helps me with this during the brief summer, but vit. D tablets are really essential for brain and immune health through the winters - don’t skimp!
