Hey y'all,So - the main idea of this is to make a WebAudio synthesis/sequencer tool which humans can use via the UI, but where the big unlock is for agents to drive with MCPIt's semi decent as "make a groovy jazz track", especially for retro sounds - but the real use case is more like "make a jetpack whoosh effect I can control via code at runtime - where the sound changes based on character...
So - the main idea of this is to make a WebAudio synthesis/sequencer tool which humans can use via the UI, but where the big unlock is for agents to drive with MCP
It's semi decent as "make a groovy jazz track", especially for retro sounds - but the real use case is more like "make a jetpack whoosh effect I can control via code at runtime - where the sound changes based on character health or how much fuel is left"
In other words, the target audience is not musicians (except maybe of the Max/MSP sort), but more like creative coders who want to shape the sound iteratively with an agent, and then use and _drive_ in in a game/simulation.
Fwiw I think this approach is going to be more and more... and I'm working on a renderer/editor tool too (will share separately when ready). What I mean is, there's a lot of "block box" AI tooling out there, and a lot of "add MCP to existing tools", but building new tools where humans get one experience and MCP exposes another layer really just for agents.. I think that's powerful.
Most if it is just mapping the WebAudio primitives to a UI and MCP server - but the AudioWorklet is a bit more interesting in that it expects a WASM file of a particular shape, and then uses that to expose the parameters in the UI and hook in as a Digital Signal Processor. That's the kind of things that is nice for humans, but too convoluted, and agents can use super easily.
As of right now, there's no hosting - so the MCP server is local as is project save/loading.
Repo: https://github.com/awsm-fun/awsm-audio Crates: https://crates.io/search?q=awsm-audio
FYI - there's a security problem with the leaderboard, I added the Testy McTester score of 42 to see if it would go through, feel free to delete it
I prefer this for 100% browser-only, but that's a niche. I do think wgpu makes more sense when you like the WebGPU headspace but want to target other backends (native, mobile, VR, etc.)
1. Debugging. The nature of bugs in this space is a lot more of "it doesn't look right on the screen" as opposed to "it breaks compilation", so I want to easily do things like peek into my buffers, use native js logging, etc. It's just a lot easier for me to reason about when I have more manual control.
2. Leaky abstractions. wgpu is a pretty low-level but it can't avoid the pain that comes with different backends, async where it should it shouldn't be, features that aren't available everywhere, etc.
That said, it would probably be pretty straightforward to convert the renderer into wgpu, most of the data structures and concepts should map cleanly
AwsmRenderer is a browser-native WebGPU renderer written in Rust, using web-sys directly (not wgpu). It’s intended to be high quality and ergonomic for typical gamedev use-cases, while keeping the API surface relatively small and explicit.
Fair warning: this is fresh off the push and only lightly tested so far. It requires a WebGPU-capable browser and is currently intended for desktop use.
Longer-term, the goal is to empower AAA-like gamedev in the browser with WASM. Internally, the API centers around keys that can be converted to/from u64, which should make it easier to move data across workers or future WASM component boundaries, and to integrate with physics engines or core game code.
Source: https://github.com/dakom/awsm-renderer
Curious to hear thoughts from folks with WebGPU, Rust, or browser graphics experience.
1. Codex takes longer to fail and with less helpful feedback, but tends to at least not produce as many compiler errors 2. Claude fails faster and with more interesting back-and-forth, though tends to fail a bit harder
Neither of them are fixing the problems I want them to fix, so I prefer the faster iteration and back-and-forth so I can guide it better
So it's a bit surprising to me when so many people are pickign a "clear winner" that I prefer less atm
In other words, yeah, don't just believe it at face value- but if you have good reason to trust the source, it's worth considering and checking into further.
In this case it's not just one individual but many people saying that THC and CBD are almost opposites if eachother, for example in how they affect anxiety.
Definitely worth proper research imho, could lead to medication that has more of the pros and less of the cons
That sounds obvious but it really isn't. One example: maybe you don't need any object culling at all. Nobody tells you this. Anything you look up will talk about octrees, portals, clusters, and so on - but you might be totally fine just throwing everything at the renderer and designing your game with transitions at certain points. When you know your constraints, you're not guessing, you can measure and know for a fact that it's fine.
Another example: shader programming is not like other programming. There's no subclassing or traits. You have to think carefully about what you parameterize. When you know the look you're going for, you can hardcode a bunch of values and, frankly, write a bunch of shit code that looks just right.
The list goes on and on... maybe you don't need fancy animation blending when you can just bake it in an external tool. Maybe you don't need 3d spatial audio because your game world isn't built that way.
Thing is - when you're writing an _engine_ you need all that. You don't get to tell people writing games that you don't really need shadows or that they need to limit the number of game objects to some number etc. But when you're writing a _game_ (and you can call part of that game the engine), suddenly you get to tweak things and exclude things in all these ways that are perfectly fine.
Same idea applies to anything of course.. maybe you don't need a whole SQL database when you know your data format, flat files can be fine. Maybe you don't need a whole web/dom framework when you're just spitting out simple html/css. etc. etc.
I think this headspace is pretty common among gamedevs (iiuc large projects often copy/paste dependencies and tweak between projects rather than import and support a generic api too)
Browser plugins could have been fixed to catch up, the VM itself wasn't the problem in terms of drain
More to the point though- Flash didn't shine as a regular website thing (Adobe people used Dreamweaver for that, if anything). It was a game/application development tool. Most of the time you didn't need any of these web-friendly things, same way you'd expect every game to have a different menu system.
It was an awesome time for innovation and creative thinking. Not everything is a flex box. I miss those days
For example, serde (and serde_json, toml, etc.) is a gamechanger, as is tracing, reqwest, and many others.
So, maybe less about the language itself for many people, but more about the human factor of overcoming fear of being stuck on an island
What are you talking about? Read the article you linked to. A single detainee had a heart attack and the accusation is about using zip ties and a gag. Zip ties are absolutely normal. A gag is a bit much but there are situations in the field where it's reasonable. On top of that there were internal investigations done by the IDF because no unit is above the law or policy of the army which is absolutely NOT about genocide or anything near it. It is shameful that you try and cite this as though it were something more damning than it is.
> You should know that "direct orders" are rarely given
I am telling you what my direct orders were throughout training and in the field. I had very clear instructions of protocol about minimizing violence, frankly at the risk of our own lives even under threat from an armed enemy.
> Btw, the leader of the Third Reich started with the intention to ethnically cleanse...
What a ridiculous jump! Rabbi Kahane had a legitimate point about the incompatibility of Western democracy and a thoroughly Jewish state of Israel. He advocated for peaceful resettlement and very much wanted good relationships between a Jewish State of Israel and the neighboring Arab/Muslim countries. Again, I am not saying I agree with his solutions, but objectively he was pointing out a logical dilemma that can't be solved by wishful thinking.
Likening him to a Nazi is horribly off and a terrible insult to a man who lost family members to the holocaust (one of his family, Alice iirc, is a well known artist who I once saw speak at Yad Vashem, as it happens).
> Just another antisemite...
>> ?
It's pretty clear to me when you misquote and twist all kinds of sources to suit false narratives. That takes a certain level of commitment.
But lets keep it simple
I have two questions:
1) How would you propose to maintain a Jewish State of Israel in light of a growing Arab/Muslim population in her borders?
2) Is there any legitimacy at all to the borders outlined in the Torah (i.e. are Jews allowed to practice their religion, which dictates hundreds of laws specific to the land of Israel)?
Yeah, that's an issue, esp with WebGL.. but you can get pretty far by reducing calls with a cache, things like "don't set the uniform / attribute if you don't need to".. but I hear WebGPU has a better API for this, and eventually this should get native performance.. though, I also wonder, is this really a bottleneck for real-world projects? I love geeking out about this.. but.. I suspect the real-world blocker is more like "user doesn't want to wait 5 mins to download AAA textures"
> Nerfed timers
Yeah, also an issue. Fwiw Mainloop.js gives a nice API for having a fixed timestep and getting an interpolation value in your draw handler to smooth things out. Not perfect, but easy and state-of-the-art afaict. Here's a simple demo (notice how `lerp` is called in the draw handler): https://github.com/dakom/mainloop-test
Re: multithreading, I don't think that's a showstopper... more like, techniques you'd use for native aren't going to work out of the box on web, needs more custom planning. I see this as more of a problem for speeding up systems _within_ systems, i.e. faster physics by parallelizing grids or whatever, but for having a physics WASM running in a worker thread that shares data with the main thread, it's totally doable, just needs elbow grease to make it work (will be nice when multithreading _just works_ with a a SharedArrayBuffer and easily)
I was directly ordered to NEVER attack civilians. In fact, I was even ordered to NEVER shoot terrorists unless they shoot first. In cases of clear danger but no shots (like someone approaching with a knife), the orders were to shoot in the air with a warning, then if necessary try to shoot in the legs.
As a Nahal Hareidi soldier I went on a patrol in a village, with Druze drivers, and was instructed to only use rubber bullets when we were attacked with rocks.
Speaking of rocks, the quote I am talking about from the Hamas charter is:
"Article 7: "The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him."" [Page 4]
So.. either you're deliberately twisting the narrative to suit your agenda, or you're ignorant.
I want to believe the latter based on your handle, but you misquoted too many sources for me to believe that's the case.
Just another antisemite looking for evidence to support a blood libel when there is no evidence at all.
But, hey, let's go further. Even if you go to the absolute extreme right, what Rabbi Meir Kahane actually said was that Israel can't simultaneously exist as a Jewish state and a Western democracy because Arab population will gain too much voting power and abolish the Rabbanut's jurisdiction over things like shemittah, marriage, etc.
It's a rational point, and he didn't have good solutions, he merely pointed out that the most peaceful logical solution was cooperative resettlement of Arabs outside of Israel. Not forced. I am not saying I agree with his policy, I am saying it was not one of genocide.
Some of his followers took to violence, but even that was typically based on the reality of ongoing skirmishes, and we're talking extremely small numbers. You probably have more representation per capita of violent gangs in America. Doesn't reflect the norm by any means, not even of Kahane supporters, nevermind normative Israeli government.
Genocide was never the policy of Israel, comparing it to Hamas is disgusting.
Yes- it actually matters that I can "chill" with Arab Muslims in Israel but I would get murdered in Gaza based on my nationality and/or religion alone. It really makes a difference.
I really wish the world would stay out of an issue they know nothing about.
The very word "Palestinian" is _ridiculous_, there is no such nation, it's literally the Arabs who seek war and rejected every offer of peace from Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon.
Look at the Jordanian flag next to the "Palestine" one. Google where Arafat was born. Look at the actual Hamas charter which says to kill every Jew no matter what.
Arabs and Muslims who do not want to annihilate Israel absolutely 100% do enjoy equal rights here. I live here. I see it first-hand nearly every day of my life. It's a democratic country. Arabs and Muslims are in the Knesset. Whether or not they should be in a Jewish homeland is a different discussion, fact is they are.
Odds are your "Palestinian" friend was offered the opportunity for Israeli citizenship and rejected it because he's been brainwashed by a downright stupid narrative of a national identity that never existed until the 1960's when all out war failed.
I buy my medicine from Arabs and chill in parks with Muslims, but then I have to run into a bomb shelter multiple times a week and cope with the 19 year old in my neighborhood who got killed fighting homicidal maniacal terrorists.
So, no, this isn't about hating an ethnic group. Palestinians are not an ethnic group. It's about hating antisemetism and the pattern that keeps happening throughout history where people choose to hate Jews so much they make up all kinds of nonsense to justify it.
Small, related anecdote: back in the year 2001 or so, this is in the same family of how I built websites...
The difference is I wrote in in C as Apache Modules. So, like, most people were using other people's C modules (like PHP or CGI), but once you dug deeper and you wrote your logic/site _as_ a C module, it was so much more fun (and powerful too).
I didn't have much of a templating language, so the answer to "can we change the text on this page?" was usually, "sure, just give me a few minutes to recompile the whole Apache server" :D
Fun times