A continuous stream of questionable choices.

(Warning: extremely developer/tech heavy update ahead)

Tuesday is the new Monday.

For some reason, shocking seems to be the name of the game at Buttplug HQ lately. I just reversed a Dog Training Collar (https://twitter.com/buttplugio/status/1200882638086537216)) and am now working on the Pavlok (https://twitter.com/buttplugio/status/1202070730638102528)) as well as some knock-off bluetooth TENS unit for a friend. This is mostly a matter of timing and coincidence, but still, lots of shocky shit on my desk right now, and probably finally getting a shock message in Buttplug soon.

Being a day late, but I hate missing more than 1 week in a row of these.

2 releases in the past week!

Buttplug Rust is actually kinda sorta maybe a thing now!

The Client API has been implemented in Rust, using the new async/await system. It seems to be working pretty well so far, though I haven't gotten to do a ton of testing yet. Now that the release is out, I'm hoping to start testing FFI for writing a C# layer on top of it (which would then mean hopefully simple Unity support!), as well as starting to implement the Server side in it.

Recovering.

Most of my life for the past week was attending the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) conference in Irvine, CA. Conference went quite well, I did a talk on the Game Haptics Router as a tool for creating new haptic spaces for communication, analyzing the strategy via proxemics. Reception was surprisingly good. I should have a version of the talk filmed and up on Youtube by the end of the week.

Scrambling to finish my SLSA presentation on hidden haptics spaces in online games (aka using the GHR in online games) that I have to give on Friday!

Did you know proxemics is a thing? I didn't until like, yesterday. So I've got a lot of reading to do now. :|

After a year of waiting my Lelo F1s showed up today. I did a super quick unboxing video because, well, it comes with masturbation racing gloves! How could I not!

Enjoying having electricity again!

My power went out as part of the California wildfire outages that've been all over the new. We were out for just under 48 hours.

Earlier this week, someone sent me some furry porn that involved the use of VR (as in the character in the picture was using VR. This is surprisingly difficult to state for some reason.).

The spirit moved me to savagely critique it from my perspective as a sex tech engineer. That review is what you see above, assuming Patreon didn't compress it to hell and back.

tl;dr: I'm now using 2 funding platforms, but there will be no fundamental changes due to this. Unless you want the gritty details of what it's like to be a creator with multiple patron streams, you can skip this post. :)

For anyone that follows me on twitter, you may've noticed that I was accepted to the Github Sponsors program. Github Sponsors is basically Patreon with a bit more of a development/corporate/open source focus.