evilhackerdude

~a year ago i passed a major inflection point regarding web UIs.

i built an in-browser STT app UI with dear imgui, and everything just _worked_. i’m rendering to a canvas, running the model in a service worker and heavily using web audio, among other platform APIs. but.

at this point, i’d even struggle to comprehend the concept of going back to using the DOM for anything but a static reading experience. perhaps peppered with _fancy_ web components for an interactive animation. some would argue that’s what it’s for.

well, browsers/JS engines can both be powerful and terrible at the same time. despite using imgui via typescript bindings and rendering to a canvas via webgpu/webgl2, there is almost no limit to what i can do. more importantly, how easily i can express _whatever i want to see_ without paying with terrible frame rates, gc or layout jank or some other fun webism.

i’ve built SPAs since dojo was a thing, built iAds (lol), really, i’ve bikeshedded myself to oblivion.

low key expecting some kind of communal inflection point where we stop wasting our time arguing about bronze age tools and start having fun again.

i always thought alphabet’s own youtube videos must be a comparatively good source of new training data. if slop and other garbage is reliably filtered out it should leave plenty of higher quality content.

nothing like legendary shrugging and keeping the mind open

great question. data source: https://aella.substack.com/p/my-birthday-gangbang

the diagram is calculated with d3-sankey & rendered with imgui. you can stretch that window however you want—ok, enough.

edit: the original steam-engine sankey diagram created a far stronger emotional reaction in me. the aella chart is just more modern, i guess?

you're fine. have you made any sankey charts? nsfw: https://seidt.quest/s/aella/

i am waiting for someone to surpass the original steam engine sankey diagram: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JIE_Sankey_V5_Fig1.p...

> The [next.js] developer experience is top-notch.

let me add my own unqualified statement to that: no.

> Next.js has invested heavily in Turbopack but if you want to deploy it to Cloudflare, Netlify, or AWS Lambda, you have to take that build output and reshape it into something the target platform can actually run.

it's almost as if vercel had some kind of financial incentive to gear this towards their own platform.

> reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite directly

a clown car screeches to a halt; several burnt-out-bored oracle vs google lawyers climb out and, weirdly, i am there for it

all in all, it's definitely a good example of something we couldn't have done for $1100 pre-llms, but: should we have? did somebody consult the lava lamps?

WIP: https://seidt.quest/s/dampf/

it uses a lightly modified @mori2003/jsimgui[1] and renders to webgpu. i can change that to webgl2 if anyone's browser fails because of that.

the fonts actual fonts appear to be tahoma and verdana. however, my imgui bindings couldn't bake the fonts at a specific size.

what i found interesting is running msiextract[2] on the above linked steam.msi revealed a TrackerScheme.res file with exact RGBA colors and layout configuration (borders, scrollbars, etc) for many widgets.

there's a lot left in there but i need to climb out of this hole for now. have fun!

[1]: https://jsr.io/@mori2003/jsimgui

[2]: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=msiext...

that early steam UI aesthetic has sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole...

https://archive.org/details/steam_10-08-2004

a rabbit hole, at the end of which is an imgui theme, and me was^H^H^Hspending entirely too much time extracting actual fonts, color codes and other minuscule details.

what's better, i have absolutely no issue with that theme being my new default!

keep in mind that people who point out a regression and measure the actual #tok, which costs $money, aren't just "being loud" — someone diffed session context usaage and found 4.6 burning >7x the amount of context on a task that 4.5 did in under 2 MB⁣.

check out raylib, it should be amazing for this :)

sounds reasonable to me. i've been wondering about encoding detailed AI disclosure in an SBOM.

on a related note: i wish we could agree on rebranding the current LLM-driven never-gonna-AGI generation of "AI" to something else… now i'm thinking of when i read the in-game lore definition for VI (Virtual Intelligence) back when i played mass effect 1 ;)

i fixed a busted analog stick by opening it up and cleaning the sensor thanks to some youtube video.

i thought i could enjoy woodworking, but i was wrong.

i attended two 1-day woodworking courses: hand tools and machine tools. i made a nice bench/stool thingy that i still enjoy daily.

however, every time i work with wood, my mind immediately goes to CAD, 3d printing and wishing i had a CNC. i look at my soft baby hands (i can’t go bouldering for shit) and walk to the keyboard, create a parametric model in a notebook (build123d is great!), slice it and send it off to one of my printers…

sigh

I'm looking forward to the first native optimized WebGPU implementation of 3DGS rendering. I'm also curious how scene data could be compressed and decompressed efficiently.

Code coming in June/July: https://twitter.com/Snosixtytwo/status/1666551263964667904

Wow. I'm seriously amazed.

Best intro text, best item lore, best in-game computer and it looks absolutely great.

Are you on Twitter/Mastodon?

I've created this environment.yml:

  name: fairseq
  channels:
    - conda-forge
    - pytorch
  dependencies:
    - python=3.9
    - Cython==0.29.21
    - librosa==0.8.0
    - matplotlib=3.3
    - numpy=1.19
    - scipy==1.5.2
    - tensorboard==2.3.0
    - pytorch=1
    - torchvision=0
    - Unidecode==1.1.1
    - pip:
        - phonemizer==2.2.1

You can install it with micromamba (or conda):

  conda create -f environment.yml
  conda activate fairseq

You'll need to do this:

  cd path/to/vits/monotonic_align
  mkdir monotonic_align
  python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Then back to fairseq:

  cd path/to/fairseq
  PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:path/to/vits python examples/mms/tts/infer.py --model-dir checkpoints/eng --wav outputs/eng.wav --txt "As easy as pie"

(Note: On MacOS, I had to comment out several .cuda() calls in infer.py to make it work. But then it generates high-quality speech very efficiently. I'm impressed.)

Holy cow, that’s impressive.

Also, from The FAQ:

> Who/what is behind this project? > > I've had a couple people and institutions provide a bit of help along the way, but I am — and always have been — one person.

Never underestimate the intellect of a single person. Every corporate team, every open source maintainer, every researcher more or less* has access to the same prior knowledge to build something new.

* some have more money to burn, some are surrounded by mentors/helpers

Reminds me of Apple Live Text/Google Lens vs tesseract… Sad.

Seconded! Marijn has thought about this stuff a _lot_.

Are netsplits still a thing in modern IRC network deployments?

4 hours in, our AWS IoT endpoint (not ATS, Symantec) in us-west-2 is still down according to monitoring, PHD and support.

Interesting, according to Oskar it’s straight up exported from Unity for web:

https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/1466063657582931974

Reminds me of my first programming experience as a 10 year old kid. My dad showed me the QBASIC IDE. He typed one line of code:

    PRINT "Ach leck mich doch am Buerzel"

And hit Run → Start...

I broke out in laughter, realizing I can make real grey-on-black DOS programs just like that. It blew my mind and started my programming career.

Least alluring name for a thing ever, but love the concept. Will definitely check it out :)

I’ll probably settle for filtering local tap water as well as I can. There are a couple of restaurants and cafés in town who obsess about water quality so I should probably talk to them.

Thanks for the advice! Definitely getting an everything-water system for the next place.

Cool technique!

Wondering if there’s a low-bullshit reusable coffee filter medium to remove some of the oils.

What I want to get sorted most right now is water. I use tap water, but I need to filter it because it’s really, really calcareous. Most filters are made of plastic, or at least plastic cartridges with the filter medium. I was thinking about using glass or metal instead and somehow machine a container for the filter medium and buy that stuff in bulk. I really don‘t want to buy bottled water to make coffee.

Any thoughts?

Thanks! I've taken the idea from @fogus. Every JS library's website should provide a REPL and a few examples so people can get used to it right away.