This week has been a little bit slow, partly due to ongoing neck and shoulder issues (which did slightly improve for a bit, at least) and the rest being from waiting for more feedback on test builds.

The SendMaps testing has been going extremely well this week, with one caveat. A couple of possibly incidental crashes were reported by some of the SS13 testers: one of them due to an issue that shouldn't be happening, but could be crash-proofed with a sanity check, and another that couldn't be traced. It's possible that there was a thread violation, but right now the data isn't in.

But apart from that, as I said everything's been going great. Eternia has been running the threaded build, and their crash issues (which far and away eclipsed anything SS13 saw) have been resolved. That's tremendous news.

This means the next step is to get moving on Linux tests. I've made a test build but I have yet to run it, so I'm gonna do some homework before I get that build out to Linux testers. For all I know there's some horrible show-stopper that needs to be addressed. Realistically this means setting up a VM and running there, since I don't really want to run those tests on the BYOND server.

Apart from that I've been looking more into plans for expanding external library support. I definitely need some more solid feedback on that from the people who'll use it most.

Thanks to all of you who supported BYOND last month, and those who've done so since. I appreciate all of you and I'm always working to make the platform better for you.

Hopefully most of this rain is gonna be behind us for a while. I could use a break from it. A little sunshine and warmth is just what the doctor ordered. That, and traction. Today we also remember, and never forgive, five of the worst seconds in television history that occurred exactly 30 years ago. Seriously, Donald, not cool; you owed Sam better.