I finally finished my Wasm-hosted, Wasm-targeting port of LLVM/Clang/wasi-libc/libc++! it will be published on NPM in the coming hours

i periodically google for it but is there yet a usefully good (gcc/clang level, or just below; more than tcc) c/c++ compiler packaged and built for (and targeting) wasm so one can run it in the browser, without massive pain? for building client only c++ sandboxes.

uzu pattern language + shadertoy style environment + integrating any uniforms automatically (thanks @boggo.bsky.social for the idea!) makes that 90s rave flyer vibe so easy...

i find this whole video super inspiring. how happy he is to manifest something esoteric just because he wants it to exist. the little rant at 27:45 explains it better than i can youtu.be/FQqsh-YU-KE?...

the 'rib' primitive in strudel/tidal and now ginkgo is such a nice example of 'just enough randomness' and 'repetition makes it intentional'. basically, rib says 'take whats to the left of me, cut & loop a given chunk of tape of it (start time & loop length) and feed it onwards'.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course talk recording of "Stochastic Tile-Based Lighting in HypeHype" by Jarkko Lempiäinen from HypeHype is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O44...

added modulation. clearly the first parameter to try is sample loop end point, ofc

they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)

I AM NOT DEAD YET www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Sy...

ok i try not to be old-man-shakes-fist-at-sky too often, but wtf is <cstdint> and why is there std::int64_t all over this code. I thought stdint.h's int64_t was long enough... all this std:: stuff just makes me itchy. god damn.

Łukasz from Wookash Podcast (@gameengineering.bsky.social) has posted a lengthy conversation I recorded with him a few weeks ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPU... It's really awkward for me to watch it so I'll assume it's just confused rambling :)

TIL why all the frequency plots ive ever made looked wrong - the 'good' ones eg fabfilter and the like stick a 3 to 4.5db/octave tilt so that 'natural'/'pink' sounds look like they have a flat spectrum. and as soon as I do that, it looks so much better / is so much more useful. DOH.

May I interest your ears in a little auditory to-and-fro? A little hither and dither? My new album: prickly tracks made over something like 6 years on my laptop, generally describable as some sort of "16-bit romplercore progslop". Enjoy! madcoil.bandcamp.com/album/funny-...

Glad that @mmalex.bsky.social chatted more about functional game state model of Dreams. Been spending years thinking about it and the direction Tim is taking UE and I think it is the right way to build Metaverse / Digital world large scaling stuff. youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

i had a chat with lukasz and @antovsky about gamedev and stuff, if youre into that sort of thing! the middle hour is the juiciest but its all fantastic, ofc ;) youtu.be/mFBmoCv5EcQ?...

store.steampowered.com/app/694550/A... I know its tootin my own horn but my favorite part was having a minimap + megamap at the same time! ( also was the first time i did parallel reduction so i felt very smart :p )

Alex, you are always 10 steps ahead of everyone! :P I have been working on/off on a similar feature for an app (though focusing on sample "management" and finding) that I plan to open-source. :)

via the magic of laion_clap embeddings and umap, my live coding thingy has a sample browser at last!

what if we hilighted every 4th line of my text editor and then put tidal mininotation in every line and then... called it a tracker.... 🤔 wcgw

still fiddling

Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions. As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...

still messin' with this thing. so many yaks to shave when you start from scratch. autocomplete, filter dsp, sample loading, even json parsing. an eternal pile of todos, but each one small enough I'm making slow but continual forward progress...

i wrote an efficient convolution reverb for dreams while at mm years ago, and found myself in need of one again. my memory was hazy on the details, and i couldnt find it written out in a simple way i could immediately understand, so i chewed a pencil and reminded myself. heres how i think about it

dual wielding

leaning into this text editor/visual editor dual, i've made the code colourer detect comments like /*====*/ and turn them into sliders. I really like how plain old source code remains the 'source of truth' for all state and the editor just doodles over it.

i really appreciate C99's variable length arrays. so you can write float foo[n]; where n is runtime variable! in before the safety crowd: obviously just as unsafe as alloca (ie be careful of n's range) but less error prone as you dont need to compute a byte size by hand. and more readable.

when you have your own text editor, everything starts to look like a .... textnail? behold, I can now edit my LFO shapes with copy and paste...

i love the colour palette of Scavenger's Reign so much. it feels like 1970s pulp comics' colours have been transported onto my tv.

TIL about 'Sturmian words', which incidentally are also (a way to generate) euclidean rhythms en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmia...

writing a recursive descent parser, & just want to vent into the void that i have no muscle memory nor particular aptitude for it; its humbling to have to tackle a simple goal in such noob baby steps. i know if i wrote em more often, itd be done in 15 mins. but good to struggle thru & try to improve

FWIW I have a public domain implementation of band-limited ramp (discontinuous first derivative) to go with band-limited step in my line segment oscillator. Instead of minBlep, it's a symmetric Blep you have to add "in the past" (just delay the whole signal), because ramp didn't seem feasible.

oh i love this font & minimalist font editor brutalita.com

i started to make a live coding environment for myself! its currently basically shadertoy but on my mac with compiled c for the audio. its not a particularly unique wheel, but it's *my* wheel, so I am mostly experimenting with the details to see what makes me feel productive & creative.

@todepond.com when is the next openslots?

🎛️ SYSADMIN MIXING TIP 🎛️ 👉 Sidechain your CPU usage with your IO delay for a super clean mix 🤑🤑

mood youtu.be/TVviQFKLMoU?...

nice little bit of randomness: opened instagram to see this post enjoying my 3d printed 1u/3u eurorack adapters, which id uploaded to thingiverse and forgotten about :) www.instagram.com/reel/DOfYhZt...

grain blanc playin' on the plinky+ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZZl...

Made a nice page for all my demoscene favorites. mrdoob.com/demoscene/

jlc day! while on vacation i speed designed a tiny 'mini pedal' - a rechargeable freeze reverb/glitch effect you can just put inline in a eurorack cable. to my surprise the design mostly worked... so i ordered 20 to take to maschina bristronica. sw? 90% done... ish. wcgw

oh and plinky+ is out! this is a total remake/overhaul of the physical side of plinky by my amazing collaborators makingsoundmachines. bigger, metal, well made. german! :) and meska - one of the OG plinkers - has been making some cool noises. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtt...

i found this garten.salat.dev/meta/youre-d... really inspiring. so I decided to make a blog too. it doesn't have any content I haven't already posted here, so nothing to read yet, but the process of writing it is the point. wonder if I'll ever post. prob not, but hope so. plinkysynth.com/alexblog/

i made a quick (silly) 'analog' scope www.shadertoy.com/view/wffBz8

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Rec Room was fun, but had to lay off a lot of folks, so I am looking for the next opportunity. If you are looking for a senior graphics coder to solve all your rendering problems on any platform, either remote or in the Seattle area, I'd love to hear from you. Picture is purely for attention.

been a couple years since I wrote a dumb pathtracer-in-a-shader; felt that itch again and decided to brush off the cobwebs by 'covering'/'blatantly ripping off' noby's brilliant 10yo 4k www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r8p...

@todepond.com thanks to you and daniel (@?) for hosting algorhythm! was very inspiring. hope to try my hand at some future event.

this garten.salat.dev (best read in order as a long story) is a really great journey through a creative process evolving various DSLs for pattern music (by the author of strudel). I love the philosophies around staying 'unstuck' in such explorative projects. thanks for the tip @boggo.bsky.social

so did everyone fun and lovely end up here or mastodon or what where are the good people at