Brianna Stafford

Brianna Stafford

@cptbeebi.bsky.social

Software engineer and artist from Brooklyn NY, currently based in the Bay Area πŸ’œ @amandatheghost.bsky.social

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Im not surprised that Trump is trying to bury the Epstein shit given he was on the flight logs, but I AM surprised he didn’t just have the DOJ lie and name a bunch of political enemies with some sacrificial lambs from the GOP.

On another office tour, and the recruiter gave us this gem: "Now the reason I brought you guys here... Is because I made a mistake and got us lost, but while we're here I'll try and teach you guys something useful while my partner gets us back on track with the tour."

Finished my first week of on-boarding yesterday. Mentally exhausted, but at the same time it's been lifting a huge amount of stress off my mind. Not to mention thanks to the microkitchens and all the food trucks that swing by the office, I don't have to treat my groceries like war rations anymore

Day 2 of onboarding: I basically went Kid in a Candy Store with the medical benefits and got the highest coverage packages across the board I cheaped out with my insurance at Twitter because "I'm a young woman in good health, I'll be fine with the default", and I'm not making that mistake again.

My current optimizations to the OBJ format: -Switch from plaintext to binary data. -Group faces by material type, since some programs don't do this. -Store number of unique vertices for each material group. -Compress the file with GZIP, will likely switch to L4Z for faster decompression. #gamedev

Grouping faces is generally helpful since it reduces the number of VAOs each model is using. For interior.obj, this reduces the number of VAOs from 2,381 down to 66 Storing the # of unique vertices is more helpful for parsing the mesh, since it lets me skip a step in building the final floatbuffer

Put together a test room for a mechanic I want to play with. The goal is that the green surface on the left door will have a portal showing the corridor above the map, while the blue portal showing the other room. The result should be some neat non-euclidean geometry. #gamedev #leveldesign

Hey #3dartists, I've got a question as someone that's used to Quake/Half Life mapping: Is there a way to have the editor treat, say, 10 units of space as 256 pixels so if I draw a 30x10x10 unit face it'll automatically have the UVs generate accordingly? #blender #3dsmax #3dmodeling

Rant/venting time So my housemates and I have been on rough terms for a while now, and recently they tried forcing me out with a 3-day notice, which they thankfully had to extend to a full 30 days since I haven't actually violated any terms of my lease with them. (1/4)

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... or is in a "shared" storage unit with my current roommates. And by "shared" I mean I don't have a key to the unit, so it's entirely on their schedule whether I can even get my belongings from there. Now I've been trying to put together money to hire actual movers to help, but since I'm... (3/4)

currently dealing with recurrent cervical cancer, what little money I have gets eaten up by hospital visits. I'm just feeling fucking lost at this point. Either I delay chemo even more than I have already to pay for movers, or lose most of my personal belongings to shit roommates. It's a lose/lose.

Rant/venting time So my housemates and I have been on rough terms for a while now, and recently they tried forcing me out with a 3-day notice, which they thankfully had to extend to a full 30 days since I haven't actually violated any terms of my lease with them. (1/4)

Now we've talked about me moving out for months, and fortunately I've had things lined up to move in with a friend for a while now. It's just been really slow-moving since we've been moving things via car and a lot of my stuff is too big for the two of us to move on our own... (2/4)

I need someone smarter than me with OpenGL to answer a question: Is there a way to make a clipping volume (IE, a region of space where all vertex data is clipped out, or where everything outside of said region is clipped out) #gamedev #opengl #indiedev

Thinkpad is on its last leg, to the point that according to Vantage diagnostics it shouldn't even be ON right now, since battery's at 0% and it doesn't recognize the charger I have plugged in. #IThell #Thinkpad