Reposting this fun musical interaction I made the other night. Musical UIs are so fun!

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i had the day off so i turned macos into an infinite canvas
X (formerly Twitter)These roses are made from a SwiftUI component I designed called NoteButton, which also forms the basis of the keys in my app “I Love a Piano.” It’s a button that takes MIDI values as an argument, sustains the note while pressed, and enables sliding between buttons.
The interaction is fun, but nothing beats the original:
One of my students drew an adorable set of solfège roses, so I tried bringing them to life in SwiftUI.
Toying with touchable notation in I Love a Piano
@matthewcassinelli thanks for the follow, Matt! An honor!
Same guy, different angle
Is it widely recognized that our beloved Finder is the dual classic Mac dialogue guy? Literally the voice of the Mac, when that was a necessary real-world hint.
I might be in the minority here, but my favorite era of AI already arrived, and seems to have been superseded by the promise of multitasking agents. I loved when it just helped me convert my ideas, formulas, and layouts into code.