a list of some things I've built, have a look around!
♪ Music tech
🪕 musicat - a sleek player for your local music library
A desktop music player with metadata tagging, smart playlists, map view, stats, and features for artists and musicians to manage their own tracks.
(Currently building, pre-release availabe) Devlog 1 Devlog 2 Devlog 3 Devlog 3🎹 Sample library player on the web.
Sample libraries are great, but in order to try a product you typically need to download and install it. As I was making my own sample library I wanted a fully playable interactive demo that works in the browser.
Just play it
or
Let it play for you
or
use a MIDI keyboard!
💡 Integrating REAPER and a smart bulb to turn red when recording.
When your DAW telling you it's recording clearly isn't enough
More info on the Cockos forums
👨💻 Browser extensions
Designs & concepts
a showcase of some of my UI mockups & prototypes
✏️ I'm a fan of the to-do window layout, where a section of the screen is reserved for the to-do list, and other apps can't take up this space, like a permanent sidebar. I think the Rectangle app achieves this quite well with it's Todo mode.
However, it's a lot of screen real estate to give up for a simple todo list, so I was thinking of ways to maximise the use of this space. Since I frequently context switch between tasks during work, here's a little concept of an app that shows my JIRA tasks, and allows to 'pin' the current task to the top of the app, useful for time tracking. Tasks can be re-ordered, and simple checklist to-dos can be added as well.
♫ A hackable music player concept. In this mockup instead of playlists we have 'playlets' - little musical programs that can be run inside the player, encouraging new ways to listen to and perceive music. As an example I show a simple Wikipedia playlet, which brings up songs together with their Wikipedia article.
[update]: the Wiki view in musicat is a working implementation of this idea
🔨 A concept UI for the data science world: a command-based data tool that can perform smart transformations on documents using natural language commands instead of Excel-like formulas or menus.
Modos: a concept I started thinking about to re-imagine window and workspace management on a desktop environment. I regularly switch between different tasks (development, design, writing, research, music production, etc), and wanted a way to arrange, visualise these 'modes' in my OS, and switch between them at the click of a button. I started tinkering with a BetterTouchTool preset to imagine what this can look like. I left this on hold but might come back to it at some point.
