Tom Chapman

Precipice of Destiny

It's been 330 versions since we last spoke (since I posted a blog). I would argue that I was letting my work speak for itself–and it does so eloquently–but it was actually just a matter of exec...

Subscriptions

This post is just for Patreon!

Recall this old post. I recently spent some time fleshing out Braytech's 2025-06-22 10:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Origins

All good things start somewhere. So much of what I know, I owe to Destiny's API. It allowed me to escape when I needed it, to create and learn new things, and it rewarded my persistence. Look, the ...

Finesse

Spit and Polish

Braytech is known for its attention to detail through its interface and expression of function. This month, I was able to get the "Mac Catalyst" version of the app running, ...

Manifesting Rewards and Fashion

I forgot how to write blog posts. Actually, I was just going through a whole thing. I'm still going through a whole thing, but I've found the power to write, and that's good because I have a lot to...

Green Witch

I have a real clunker of a thought that I often struggle to express with finesse. Braytech used to be 3 pages–checklists and some triumph titles. It was easy for me to envision, in my mind, its v...

Revenant

Lost Sector Rewards

With the arrival of The Final Shape, lost sector rewards changed. No longer do lost sector award engrams which decrypt to specific armour pieces. Instead, they award exo...

Untitled

Hi friends!

Long time no chat... Let's get into it. So, I've realised retroactively that I've had some bad burnout (and a healthy dose of depression) from my insistence of delivering at least...

Get Equipped

It's ya boy, Dare, aka Tommy Chappo heeeeree, back-at-it-again-with-another-post-about-a-Braytech-featurreeeeeeee

Fireteam Equipment

For your convenience, you may now view your firete...

Coordinated Geography

Hello. I'm Tom Chapman, and you may remember me from previous blog posts, or that time I was repeatedly referred to by my full name on Twitter over some debacle with icons from and based on Bungie'...

The Final Shape

Important Patreon notice

I want to remind everyone that I've been focusing my efforts on minimising waste. One of the methods I've been employing is by offering an integrated alternative to...

Bounty Hunters

It was time to pay the Quests view some attention. I wanted to update and add new features for bounty collectors. Naturally, I ended up rewriting, restructuring the entire Quests view first. Makes ...

Custom Usernames

Custom usernames! I've wanted to add custom usernames for a time but there's a lot of moving parts that I needed to have full into place first.

Braytech is made up of many parts:

• <...
  2024-05-02 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

I Tried Using Ads

This week in Braytech, we'll touch on what's been happening with Braytech and its developer for the past few weeks:

• report on AdSense test

• bills and money

• <...
  2024-04-04 04:46:17 +0000 UTC View Post

March in a Nut Shell

• Collectible item design
• Improved support for medium-size display users
• Improved core components for Collections and Triumphs to enable more features and a better user experi...
  2024-03-18 09:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post

I'll Never Use Ads

This month, I’m trying something I said I never would. 

Braytech is lucky to have millions of users but less than 0.01% support its development through subscriptions o...

ICYMI Polls

Reminder that polls moved away from Patreon to Discord and it's turned out to be very effective and productive! If you haven't seen them, consider checking out 2024-02-24 15:35:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Sets

This new feature allows you to quickly see all of the items you can obtain from specific activities in one convenient plac...

Be Mine

SITREP I fractured at least one of my ribs cleaning a car bonnet. This incident, occurring late last week, has delayed my rise to greatness ever so slightly. Out of naivety and over confidence, I t...

Voluspa

These past days, I've been making a lot of improvements to Voluspa, Braytech's server side counterpart.

• Addressed technical debt in a responsible manner
• Secured user endpoints<...
  2024-02-08 03:19:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Blogging

With subscribers in mind, I've been working on improving specific features to maintain accountability and tr...

Loadouts!

This week, I worked on adding loadouts to Braytech. At long last!

I wanted to make sure I got it right, so it took me a minute/a few months.

Working with items and the Destiny API is li...

Tech Debt? Nah

Just a note of admiration for myself. 😎

I took the plunge and gave Microsoft 5 bucks so I could see my Git commit history for Braytech.

I've drawn the following conclusions:

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2024-01-04 08:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Details

The Inspect view. It's been with us for years now, through various incarnations. Rest in ham and pineap...

Hive Anatomy and T-Shirts

Have you ever stopped to think about Hive anatomy? Their experience of the world must differ greatly from our own... Is their flesh and bone anything like ours... Are they carbon-based... So many q...

Discord Roles

If you're a Discord user and you're missing the role for your tier, you can use the new command /register_discord_with_vol...