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personal favorites
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Notch
View repoA macOS utility that creates its own notch at the top of the display. Hover the black pill and it expands into Now Playing controls, a screenshot shelf, and clipboard history
Technical specifications
- How it works
- An NSPanel pinned to the top of every Space, a notch that expands on hover. Now Playing over the private MediaRemote API, screenshots via FSEvents, the level meter off an AVAudioEngine tap
- Built on
- Swift, SwiftUI and AppKit
- Why
- I was unsatisfied with the open source alternatives, so I decided to make my own
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Liquid Glass
My implementation of Apple's Liquid Glass. A pill of glass slides between the tabs, bending the background as it goes and stretching before it settles. One of my personal favorites
Technical specifications
- How it works
- A refractive lens over a tab row: SDF pill, Snell-law edge refraction with per-channel dispersion, LCH fresnel and glare, spring-driven motion
- Built on
- WebGL and vanilla JavaScript, no libraries