July 2024 Review
A sneak peek of what's coming soon!
Hey folks! Today we're taking a look at what we worked on over the month of July :3
Let's get into it, shall we?
Transparency Update
In recent reviews, we've gone over our current life situation and the things we've been struggling with, and we wanted to touch on it again here
In short: our financial problems have not been fixed yet.
We're still without an income and no guarantee that we'll be able to pay rent for this month. While we had family that was kind enough to lend us money to keep the roof over our head, we aren't sure how much we can continue to rely on them, and either way we desperately need a stable income in order to make sure everything we need is paid for.
After the disaster that was the warehouse job we attempted, our mental and physical health have taken a pretty nasty decline. We're getting through it, but we've found that we may not be able to work like we want to- and even if we were able, we're still struggling to get interviews or get hired, despite plenty of attempts and trying all the tips and tricks of job hunting many times over. It's pretty rough.
That said, our partner is now focusing on getting a job instead of us, and has been feeling much better about things compared to in the past. We're still not sure if it'll work out, and we're worried about her mental health spiraling back to where it used to be, but we're trying this for now and will see how it goes
EDIT: In addition to the above, we also learned that we have nowhere to go if we end up losing the house. We thought we could stay with our partner's family, but it turns out that they only want to take her in, not us. We have family back in our home state that we might be able to stay with, but the living conditions are terrible and will almost guarantee a severe drop on our mental and physical health; plus, the house is already extremely cramped and they may not have room for us.
Anyways, that's enough heavy news for this post 
let's get into the fun stuff!
What we've completed
Released: PKTools
We released some new tools for PK users over on Github! There are only a few tools there right now, but we're planning to add to them as we go along
Restarting our streaming endeavors
We've begun streaming again! Right now you can catch us at least once a week streaming games on our Twitch. Usually we aim to stream on Mondays around 1PM EST, but we may be shifting this to another day here soon. Check out our Twitter, BlueSky, or Discord for up-to-date info on when we'll be streaming, or follow us on Twitch to get direct notifications!
What we're working on
Getting back into art
A very kind friend gave us a drawing tablet she wasn't using, and so we're getting back into doing more art! We're hoping to get quicker with commissions and potentially finish some old works that we never quite got around to completing
Form Fox: Actions Update
We're almost done with the new update we've been working on! 
As a precursor to sections, and as a way to give admins more power for their forms, we've been working on Actions. Actions are functions that will run automatically (or for some cases, manually) when given criteria are met. There are many action types, each with their own options and conditions. Here's a peek at the setup process for just one of these action types:
(Please note, the final versions of this might look a bit different; at the very least we'll be adding the action's channel to the embed)
As part of this update, we're also working on streamlining form creation and restructuring the way questions are handled. This is the longest part of the update, as we have to tear out a lot of old code and update it to the new ways of doing things. We're about halfway done with this part, and we're hoping to finish it by the time August ends :3
Previously mentioned projects
Everything else we've mentioned before- Syscomm, Alex, the Dash™, and the smaller learning project we did- are still on our radar, as always. We're currently working on a better schedule to divvy up our time with these and give us a healthy way to work on them, and with any luck we'll be much more productive going forward 
That's all for now! Thanks so much to everyone who supports us, these projects wouldn't be possible without you 
Here's hoping we can finally finish up some of the things on our to-do list this month :'D
- Kam