During March 2026, Andre Wild focused on stability hardening for the arendst/Tasmota repository, addressing reliability issues in the lwIP SNTP path during WiFi reconnects on ESP8266 devices. He implemented no-op wrappers for sntp_init and sntp_stop in C and C++, neutralizing the SNTP client to prevent heap drain and timeout list corruption. To ensure these changes were robust, he added a PlatformIO post-build script in Python that validated the presence of linker wraps in the final firmware. This work reduced memory-related risks and improved time synchronization reliability, demonstrating depth in embedded systems and firmware development with network programming.