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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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Esther Alter

Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · 5d ago

Updated Talmudifier. It (finally) supports multiple languages, including Hebrew!

https://crates.io/crates/talmudifier

#rust #jewish #talmud #latex

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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Esther Alter

@esther_alter@mastodon.social

Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Mar 12, 2026

RE: @esther_alter@mastodon.social

Pincushion is now on crates.io! It's intended to be used in a Unity3D context but it can absolutely work in a pure-Rust setup.

https://crates.io/crates/pincushion

#rust #3d #render #rustlang #programming #opensource

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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Esther Alter

@esther_alter@mastodon.social

Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Mar 11, 2026

RELEASED: Pincushion, a Unity3D uniform mesh sampler accelerated by a native Rust plugin.

Features:

- Render cool dots spaced evenly (sorta) around the surface of a mesh
- Unique rendering masking/occlusion options
- It's very fast
- Works with Unity 2020 and newer
- Legacy render pipeline (good for older projects!)
- Supports static meshes (MeshRenderer) and dynamic meshes (SkinnedMeshRenderer)

https://github.com/alters-mit/pincushion

#unity3d #shader #rust #gamedev #csharp #render #rustlang

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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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 מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Early spring girl (sleeveless edition)

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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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 מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026

Early spring girl

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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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 מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Feb 24, 2026

My website expired and then godaddy registered it?? I guess I don’t have a website anymore??? How do I get it back????

#dns #godaddy #webdev

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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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 מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

*nothing* makes me feel more like a hot cyberpunk hacker than using dd

My partition table was:

windows linux(/) linux(/home)

The / partition was way too small. You can't resize partitions leftward.

I freed up space:

windows free linux(/) linux(/home)

then dd'd /:

windows linux(/)(copy) linux(/) linux(/home)

then wiped /:

windows linux(/)(copy) free linux(/home)

then resized /(copy):

windows linux(/)(copy) linux(/home)

and everything works! Linux is so cool!

#linux

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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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 מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

I haven’t posted a selfie here in a while so here ya go, please compliment

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Trans Jewish byte array Open source software developer Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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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 מיר װעלן זײ איבערלעבן  https:// esther-alter.com

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@esther_alter@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

Laid off :/

I know:

Unity C#
Rust
Python

I can learn:

Anything

I am in Massachusetts. Remote work would be great too

I’ve 8 years of experience as an MIT software engineer specializing in research simulation platform projects. I would prefer: not creating the next big AI thing, not making weapons, never having to think about blockchain anything.

Anyone got anything?

#rust #softwaredevelopment #unity3d #python #FediHire #getfedihired

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