Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One of the first things I did after teaching myself the OBJ file format back in 2017 was try to mesh text. It was fucking awful between learning what the fuck a glyph was and C binding a Delaunay triangulation lib (because I'm in go). Also, I was dumb. Happy to be at this point. 000
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One of my favorite polyform graphs w/ both simplicity and results 000
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Both the node graph and the 3D renderer now only re-render when something changes. Meaning sitting idle, polyform contributes practially nothing to CPU usage. 000
Reposted by Eli DavisKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 18/12/2024I'm about to rebrand all my cron jobs to AI agents and raise a $100,000,000 seed round. 34975124
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Made it so a node can either act on its input, or on an array of its inputs. This automatically made all existing nodes so much more powerful, and allows me to get rid of a ton of now redundant nodes. 000
Reposted by Eli DavisJamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Your tax dollars paying for ads of President Trump on today's Washington NFL game 54913
Reposted by Eli DavisAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Two visions of America going forward: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts vs. Sniper Enclave Triumphal Arch. 614432
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Finally closed the first issue I ever opened in polyform 010
Reposted by Eli DavisElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When you go to the polls and vote for a Republican, you are voting for an escalation of preventable deaths, continued erosion of food safety, and anti-science disinformation. Not a single Republican has done a goddamned thing about the destruction being wrought by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 5375119
Reposted by Eli DavisAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026Newsom: "Look what happened in Vietnam. They got slapped with a 46% tariff. Until they didn't. Because Eric Trump visited Vietnam in the middle of negotiations. Met with the prime minister, who had a press conference with Eric Trump announcing they had just approved a new golf course in record time" 14344451559
Reposted by Eli DavisMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Overblown or not, the AI industry isn't even trying to make an affirmative case for them. Gas turbines, constant noise, high water demands--oh, okay, is this for an emergency hospital after a disaster? No? It's just so rich people who will never even visit here can become even richer? Then no. 537765
Reposted by Eli DavisAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Does “Freedom” mean dying from stuff you bought at the grocery store because the government doesn’t check food safety anymore so it can give tax cuts to billionaires? 1378
Reposted by Eli DavisJay Kirell @jasonkirell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Kurt Schlicter once told a disabled veteran to off himself. I know because I was that veteran. 7934591248
Reposted by Eli DavisMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved." 8650381163
Reposted by Eli DavisAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026Trump launched the Iran war with a grandiose video talking about regime change and destroying Iran’s capabilities. Six months later, he’s proven to be so weak that the US can’t even keep the Strait of Hormuz open. An absolutely resounding defeat. 20267381486
Reposted by Eli DavisWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/08/2026All these tech companies were happy to pledge to reduce carbon emissions when it required literally nothing of them. The moment it was in their interest to vastly increase emissions, they bailed on their commitments. 14816
Reposted by Eli DavisMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/08/2026🚨BREAKING: Senate Republicans confirmed Todd Blanche as the 88th U.S. attorney general, formally placing one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest loyalists at the helm of the Department of Justice (DOJ). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comSenate confirms Trump loyalist Todd Blanche as attorney generalRepublicans confirmed Todd Blanche as U.S. attorney general, formally placing one of Trump’s staunchest loyalists at the helm of the Justice Department. 2791001368
Reposted by Eli DavisGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 06/08/2026Trump continues to create a propaganda machine for his MAGA agenda. This move by the FCC weakens longstanding ownership protections for broadcast media, making it easier for him to control what Americans see, hear, and read. This is straight out of a dictator's playbook. 27466177
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This dude used to talk about how chicken heads were like PID loops 010
Reposted by Eli Davisloren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026i have been looking into pcg number generators after a couple of folks said they like them. seem so nice! I've found c++ implementations i like. so far the js implementations are all a few orders of magnitude higher in code complexity than i like, but maybe i can make a smaller one? 7624
Reposted by Eli DavisScience Magazine @science.org · 24/07/2026Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: scim.ag/4pF6Mvy 210271
Reposted by Eli DavisGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/07/2026ICE celebrating “Freedom 250” by taking shackled immigrants from our nation’s capital to concentration camps in the South. 121506692
Reposted by Eli DavisAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans" 556286239498
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Hey man, if it fractures the votes on the Right, then it's an even easier time in the polls for the Left ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ win to me 070
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Fuck Elon but this is just any tech IPO for the past decade 0120
Reposted by Eli DavisJesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 21/06/2026This has gone from "Dumb issue I'm trying to ignore" to "Dumb issue that's kind of amusing" to "Dumb issue that has them arresting scapegoats."washingtonpost.comCyclist arrested at Reflecting Pool is former Olympian who denies vandalism claimsDavid Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” Trump has accused vandals of sabotaging the refurbishment as paint was seen peeling and... 04820
Reposted by Eli DavisRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/06/2026Today's Israel: Israel brutally murders Lebanese marine ecologist that protected a precious turtle nesting area by literally bombing her house. They long stopped making up clearly bullshit excuses about Hamas or Hezbollah, they just execute people now. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comIsraeli attack kills famed turtle sanctuary ecologist in LebanonMona Khalil led decades-long effort to protect nesting site for turtles near her home in south of the country 4361140
Reposted by Eli DavisZeteo @zeteo.com · 19/06/2026On Juneteenth, 7 Ways Trump Attacked Black History in the U.S. This isn’t a holiday that MAGA wants to celebrate. Here are 7 actions that show it. Read here: zeteo.com/p/juneteenth... 536992
Reposted by Eli Davisjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 10/06/2026this story should be national news during pride month and instead barely anyone knows about it 191644605
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 09/06/2026What is the UI built in? Is it custom? Or something "meta" that provides the sliders. Asking cause I'm working on something called shapurr.comshapurr.comShapurr 100
Reposted by Eli DavisDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026“Did wokeness go too far?” we ask as we are governed by a man who has been explicit for years that he regards women and Black people as inherently inferior 461658369
Reposted by Eli DavisThe New Republic @newrepublic.com · 06/06/2026All of this further illustrates just how powerful the Trump administration believes itself to be: Its modus operandi is simply to break our nation’s laws with such speed that no one can stop it. trib.al/zWWDSXatrib.alDOJ Declares Trump Has Right to Bulldoze Statue of LibertyDepartment of Justice lawyers made the bizarre argument while defending Donald Trump’s ballroom. 1511255
Reposted by Eli DavisJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/06/2026My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production. 173737888
Reposted by Eli DavisMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class. 152129805103
Reposted by Eli DavisGarbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026For some fucking reason the enemies can't shoot the player anymore. All I've been doing this weekend is adding debug utilities. The lines show, based on the current object's trajectory, where it'll be 5s from now. We know things collide if the colors of the lines match when the lines intersect. 001
Reposted by Eli DavisGarbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Day job has been beating my ass this week, but here's a look at the improvements to the environmental destruction render feature. Excited to animate some of these shader parameters as the game progresses. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday 0185
Reposted by Eli DavisGarbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Been working on a screen space effect to procedurally add detail to the environment, independent of material/geometry. Right now it's just cracks, but the groundwork is laid for a lot of cool future stuff. Consider following if this interests you! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday 0144
Reposted by Eli DavisDavid Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This is what I’ve meant these many years when I refer to EBM fundamentalism or methodolatry, defined as the profane worship of the randomized controlled clinical trial as the only valid method of clinical investigation. 38029
Reposted by Eli DavisSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 05/05/2026You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me, 8177731933
Reposted by Eli DavisGarbage Cat Apocalypse @garbagecatapoc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Enemies now flash when taking damage. Implemented using a render pass for objects set on a "Damage" layer. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev 0105
Reposted by Eli DavisXor @xordev.com · 27/01/2025Subtle things to make your shaders better: 1) Anti-aliasing - Real life is not limited to pixels so unless you're specifically going for a pixelated style, you should be anti-aliasing everything! mini.gmshaders.com/p/antialiasing 715523
Eli Davis @elicdavis.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Two weekends ago vs last weekend vs today. Love all the rain we've been getting 000
Reposted by Eli DavisNora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 26/04/202696% of surveyed early career researchers on NIH K awards reported that federal changes in science funding has impacted their career stability 05537
Reposted by Eli DavisRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin? 31583282811