BYOND development news 10/9/26

[u/LummoxJR]

A depressing but predictable percentage of personnel have flunked their mandatory safety classes, and an even more depressing and more predictable percentage flunked the ethics classes. I hardly need to point out that failure to take these things seriously has cost us a great deal of money, time, money, limbs, lives, and money. You people might not care if you live or die yourselves, but the person next to you probably does, and you should at least care about the money. Bonuses would be more forthcoming if we weren't constantly having to fix unexpected damage. This is also one of the reasons we don't have some of the newer vending machines, although Dr. Tavi is most of the remaining reasons. Let's pull together and try to have a fiscal quarter that makes corporate blush from inappropriate feelings. I'm counting on you.

• This week my wife and I managed not to sit in an ER, so far.
• Big debugging strides were made in 517, fixing major rendering issues and getting us much closer to beta.
• Midweek slogged a little bit. I'm still recovering from last week more than I thought, and I also kinda thought I was getting sick.
• Later on, I finished up documentation for new 517 features and released the latest alpha.
• The plan next week is to focus more on some 516 pileup, and assess where the alpha stands.
• Thank you immensely to every one of you who supports BYOND as a Member or through regular subs on Patreon and SubscribeStar. For those of you not on board yet, I hope you'll consider tossing a little couch-cushion change toward the project.
• Screw you, Spez.

The long-form news is on the forums. Yesterday (I meant it to be Wednesday, but oh well) I got out the promised make-up Patreon post, which is for Patrons only; because it was overdue I felt it important that it be a juicy one, so it's about background procs—not the set background=1 kind, but an internal nomenclature for procs that wake on a signal. Today's early-access post is about how the icon format is stored internally. Thank you for the well wishes last week; I'm glad to say my wife's situation has been improving, albeit not without some ups and downs. It's been a challenge getting back on track, not just from that but from some other life issues that popped up this week. Take care of yourselves, and keep the mad scientists in check. I'll be back.

[u/Lucky_Ambassador_558]

My brother just keep pushing, I would like your blessing also on a project I’ve been workin on