Esther Alter

@esther_alter
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Trans Jewish byte array

Open source software developer

Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere


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https://esther-alter.com

Websitehttps://subalterngames.com
what if I just started the local in-person hacker-witches meetup of my dreams

RE: https://mastodon.social/@esther_alter/116093314164897678

still looking! anything related to simulators and robotics that ISN'T a defense contractor nightmare would be great. Anything Rust-y or no-AI-y would be great too.

#FediHire #getfedihired

Released: nine-slices, a rust crate for 9-slicing sprites, a common technique for resizing images without distorting borders. AFAIK it’s the only rust crate that does this on the cpu!

https://crates.io/crates/nine-slices

#rust #programming #gamedev #imageprocessing #rustlang

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

Girl at a lake
It’s that time again, it’s time to compliment my haircut
And, this function is part of a fun-code project to see if I can accelerate color blending via SIMD. So far, derefing to access individual color channels seems to be the bottleneck
Implicit in the comments is that a Vec4 is a glam struct backed by an __m128 SIMD value. The point of all of this is to do SIMD-optimized math while still having access to Vec4::w without paying the deref cost
@wgahnagl behold my very cursed glam code

We're at the "it's probably ok to lie to the borrow checker" level of optimization

#rust #rustlang #programming

Unsure of where to go from here but maybe

Blend modes
#python hooks
#c hooks