pull request for unusual temporary work arounds

First Commit: This is really awkward in the form of a pull request... normally you'd push this to main, have all sub-projects update within a day, and make the follow up commit by the next day after that, and pretty much go unnoticed as nothing more than a day in which a random extra function existed.
Ah well, this might take a week through PRs but it should work out.

EDIT: fixes #710