Now that the Buttplug website is in order and I have some vague ideas about software direction, I'm looking at getting translation work done. I think this is i18n work, but I'm not sure and don't want to confuse anyone that actually knows what they're talking about, so I'm just saying translation. I posted about this on twitter and already have interest for German, French, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Japanese is a major goal that's currently not covered right now, so definitely looking for that. The first translation priority will be the Buttplug website at https://buttplug.io, which doesn't have a ton of text on it but is key for bringing in new community and contributors. Hoping this will be a good way to iron out the process, as this is also gonna be the first time I've ever done this on one of my projects. After that, we'll look at documentation, libraries, and applications, figuring out which translations would best serve the community. 

Right now I'm figuring out which translation service I want to use. I'm pretty sure I'm going with http://crowdin.com . If anyone has worked with that or any other services like http://transifex.com , http://phraseapp.com, or others and have opinions, please do let me know, 'cause I'm starting from basically zero knowledge here.

AAAAAHHHHHH I FINALLY HAVE A VORZE UFO SA

NEVER HAVE I BEEN SO EXCITED ABOUT GETTING A SEX TOY I HAVE FEW PLANS TO ACTUALLY USE.

Since you're all paying me, here's a bit of pre-release info, and also some information about what the money gets used for.!!!!! I FINALLY FOUND A PLACE TO ORDER A VORZE UFO SA !!!!

Was doing some random toy searches on Amazon and decided to see if it came up, and sure enough, some tiny place apparently has 1 available and I ordered it. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but this has been one of my Holy Grails of Sex Tech for a while now. It's just so different from everything else, and most Japanese outlets don't ship internationally.

https://buttplug.world/playgroundFinally finished overhauling Playground with Typescript 2.8, Vuetify, Webpack 4, etc... It's now much cleaner codewise, though also 75% larger somehow (probably due to some issues with Vuetify that I'm still waiting on resolutions for).

For new patrons out there: Playground is the our web-based minimal testing/control application. It allows you to connect to vibrating/rotating/stroking devices and set controls for them. It doesn't do much, but it's super handy if you don't need to do much. :)

I picked up an Oculus Go yesterday, and will be spending the next while testing it with Buttplug. The Go runs android, and has a built in browser based on Blink/Chrome. While it ostensibly supports WebBluetooth (our Playground and Syncydink apps have the "Connect Local" feature enabled, which means bluetooth is present), the browser currently crashes on device scan. I'm hoping that will be fixed in the future, as having this supported in the browser would be fantastic for building quick control apps without having to get things into stores.

While I wait for a fix on that, I'm going to be testing other ways to hooking up the Go with Buttplug, as this seems like it will be the perfect platform for movie VR content + hardware control. If you have any questions or anything you'd like tested, please let me know.

https://buttplug.ioAfter 1.5 months or so of work, the new, simpler, cleaner Buttplug website is live. Hopefully this will be slightly more useful than the last one.

I'm as shocked as you are. Someone just showed up to our discord server, mentioned trying to build an android app, and then all of the sudden it was ready to use and they're working on a VR movie player app too.https://github.com/metafetish/buttplug-android/releases

This is an alpha release of the Buttplug Websocket Server Android App. This app works just like the windows app, in that it runs a websocket server and allows Buttplug compatible apps like ScriptPlayer, Syncydink, etc to control toys through it. I've tested it with the Launch and Lovense toys, and it worked for me.

https://io.buttplug.worldAfter spending most of GDC going "Yeah I make some sex toy software but don't look at the website it sucks", I'm trying to fix that.

That's where the site will be in beta until its done. Hoping to have it finished in the next week or two. Lemme know if there's anything you think should be on there!

Welp, we've now reached me being on patreon for a whole year! Thanks to everyone for sticking with me so far.Trying to get back in the swing of doing monthly Q&A's, so if you've got questions, lemme know!

However, since most questions have usually been "What are your plans for [piece of software you made that you haven't touched in a while]?", I'll give updates on all of those first.

Finally spent some time learning to make subdomain redirects in AWS, so now we have:Discord: https://discord.buttplug.io

Youtube Channel: https://youtube.buttplug.io