Tom Chapman

Xûr for iOS

Hello patrons!

For the past two weeks, I've been developing my first native mobile app! You can read about the entire journey here: https://twitt...

Guardians! Welcome to May 2021.

This week, I deployed a "Relationships" feature for Clans. It'll tell you who you play with most and common fireteam formations. I've spent more time making it robust than focusing on its design and nothing is set in stone. As you may noticed, I h...

Thank you

I just wanted to remind you all of how thankful I am for your support. Life has a lot of ups and downs, like, gosh.

That said, I'm super pleased with some of the updates to Braytech that I've delivered, including some experiments (all of the...

Fixing the broken and shedding some Light on the dark

So, Europa is pretty cool. I'm super tired but I've put this post off for far too long. So here's a summary of what's new and changed;

• An all new Triumphs view to match the changes made to the game
  A beautiful Lore view to accompany...
  2020-12-12 08:29:31 +0000 UTC View Post

4 more days

Posted a blog

Hello fronds. I've posted a short new blog about the past week-and-a-bit of development that explains how Sync and Search work and some of the motivations behind them.

Blog is on the ...

I started a blog!

I've started a blog at the Braytech home page! I'll mostly be talking about whatever rubbish crosses my mind, so long as it's remotely related to Destiny.

I said it better in my opening post:

Welcome to the first blog post of ...

2020-09-04 11:39:11 +0000 UTC View Post

This Week at Braytech

This week at Braytech, I released a substantial upgrade to the Reports view.

It's improved in various ways:

• Stat scatter charts
• Expanded lifetime stats
• More performant
• A background refresh time...
  2020-08-23 06:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post

Juicy July

Any meaning to the post title? Nope, I just couldn't think of anything and I like alliteration. Actually, Juice is a really good "bop" by Lizzo.

I procrastinate these posts excessively, because I feel like my patrons are my employer...

An All New Inspect View

As alluded to in the prior post, I've delivered an all new Inspect view, accessible directly or through the Collections views.

I'm moderately proud of this one; you can preview perks and how they'll affect the stats of an i...

Are you dead?

I am not! It's been x days since we last spoke and I think it's time to briefly break this silence to catch up on each other.

I've been busy, especially busy this past week, trying to update for Season of Arrivals, developing the 2020-06-17 15:09:48 +0000 UTC View Post

April

New features:

• Maps version 2 (huge refactor of Maps display logic and data)
  -   New Inspect UI that displays related data and triumph records
  -   I... drew... a map of 2020-04-25 20:18:38 +0000 UTC View Post

The Service Worker

Hello my loves. Time for another this month in Braytech update.

I've been making lots of little resilience updates to Braytech. All sorts of stuff to prevent and mitigate issues. I've been doing this for two reasons;

• To ...
  2020-03-22 07:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Notes for February 5

• Thank you for your immense support over the past month - my survival is ongoing
• There's been various improvements and new additions to Braytech since I last posted including but not limited to; Chalice of Opulence recipes t...
  2020-02-05 06:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post

New objectives

Oh, hello!

You're reading this today because I'd like your feedback on what to focus on (or improve) for Braytech next.

If you have any other ideas, please join the Disc...

Request for feedback

I've noticed that Braytech's translation contributors ❤ are more outspoken than any of you and there's nothing wrong with that, but I'm keen to remind you all that your feedback matters too.

Give it here, shout at me on twitter, o...

The Holiday Break

Time is like sand through the fingers of my open hand. Quote me, just now. I'm always startled by long goes between these development reflection posts, although the holiday break does exacerbate it.

It's been a very curious almost-2-months. ...

Sustainability

Repost from in-app notification for transparency and posterity. The response has been overwhelming. I can't thank you enough. Numbers are such an abstract concept and even as an amateur programmer, I'm still baffled by any amount greater than fing...

Customisable Now view

A customisable yet responsive design - this isn't something I ever expected to be doing or something I could have done [this well] a year ago.

This one put me through the ringer - I was enthusiastic, I felt like a moron, and finally I felt c...

Chalice recipes tool

Updates prior to and (especially) Shadowkeep launch severely affected the Chalice tool's functionality and I chose to assign priority to more important items such as basic Tooltips functionality.

With a few weeks left in the season, things h...

New: Legend

Over the past few days I built and released Legend. 

It's a tool that you can use to generate infographic images with, about your profile.

There's some themes... And I'm working on more but it's hard goin.

November

Oh, hello. I'd personally like to request an inquiry into where exactly this particular month has gone. But let's focus on the task at hand.

...

10 days later

Tooltips improvements have landed. Things should now be as accurate as, say, DIM... Which is the best bar to aim for. Nowwww I'm going to return to Maps. 

Do you like to use Discord? Did you not know of 2019-10-31 04:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post

September and October

Look, I could copy-paste my change logs but no one would enjoy it, least of all me.

That said, there's been many changes to Braytech since we last congressed. 

Many things are completely different either visually, or how they're f...

One more month

Shadowkeep is just around the corner. It’s time to tie up loose ends from the past few seasons and optimise old code.

I won’t lie to you - I procrastinate writing posts for Patreon... Be it out of a sense of unworthiness or fear of takin...

What's been up

So many quality of life updates

• Custom tooltips
• Class type filter for Chalice recipes tool
• PGCR pagination so you can time travel
• Medals added to PGCRs
• Clans view refresh
• Checklists view ref...
  2019-07-18 04:33:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Highlights: June 2019

Heyyyy! Long time no post, right. Sorry about that. Although, I've been very busy with Braytech. Let's lay out the basics of what we've accomplished for the month of June:

• Hugggeeee This Week update
• Major Settings view update ...
  2019-06-28 01:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post

What next!

What should I put my mind to next?

Leaderboards BETA released

Let me know what you think!

https://braytech.org/leaderboards 

Braytech 2.5.0 and GitHub Projects

It's been a rough few days down here in Hellas Basin. Bray and I aren't currently on speaking terms, but we're making measurable progress any how (mostly me actually).

I realised early this evening that the reason why I've been fe...