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I extracted the zip, found the electron build folder, replaced a string in the minified code to launch Chrome on macOS correctly and ran electron-packager with the target being macos.

Patching electron apps is fairly common. You can take a look at Spicetify or BetterDiscord to see the process in more detail

Half of these are fake/satire. Look at the first one where the highlighted text colour should be white and not tinted red.

The cp3 one has inconsistent padding. The astronaut one is clearly inspect element. I could go on

HTML to awkward so you have to switch to webgl which is too low level or you might switch to svg

HTML is replaceable by WebGL which is replaceable by SVG?

JavaScript that compiles down into typescript

JS compiles down to TS?

I am not sure if anything in this comment indicates you have any experience with developing for the web but that is not my primary issue with this comment. My gripe is claiming that things are "awkward" or can't be done without even looking around. None of the examples below use WebGL

Here's a WinXP UI clone that runs in your browser with floating, resizable windows. - https://winxp.vercel.app/

Here's one that mocks macOS - https://macos-web.app/

As you mentioned you like Alfred, why did you choose to build a standalone app as opposed to an Alfred extension? Since you use Electron: spinning up a browser every time I need a quick-launch bar seems a little overkill.

Anyway, the UI looks very neat! Starred the repo and will try playing with it.

Fetches (and parses) a ~93kB JSON file every 3 seconds along with the threejs stuff. No wonder it refuses to load on my mid-range android phone.

For anyone wondering if there is any subgenre that he seems to not vehemently dislike, French House seems to have a surprisingly charitable description.

...every kick for just a fraction of a second, adding a new dimension of chunky French goodness.

French House is still around because anything this addictively funky will never die. Just like Disco.

It's there if you punch in "Electronica" in the searchbox.

'Electronica' does not exist. Not as a genre or a description. It was coined by the North American music press to refer to the second wave of electronic music's explosion in the late 90s.

Nearly every popular act of the period -- Daft Punk, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Tricky -- were marketed as 'Electronica' at one time or another, but the person who really popularized it was Madonna and her shallow William Orbit-produced piss-poor attempt at appropriating trance music as something she invented (Ray of Light). But there really isn't any actual thing called Electronica. It's just a corporate buzzword.

This is a PSA from the official Electronic Music Genre Standards and Classifications Consortium.

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Brostep has one good track: Charlie Sheen's raging cokehead rant

The Swedish House Mafia is a dingleberry clinging to the ass hair of electronic music. Seriously, what sort of horrendous ear sandpaper like One needs three god damn producers?

PS: If you're coming here from Pitchfork, go f*ck yourself.

Had no idea this existed and I'm grateful I came across this today. Clicked around a bit to see which Aphex Twin tracks were chosen — Xtal is there! Funny how typing "deadmau5" in the searchbar just returns "Who?". Reading the Info Panel for 8th Note Prog explains why that might be the case.

Loved reading through the Info Panels and the FAQs but the UI is a bit clunky to work with. Is there an official dataset? Would love to try my hand at building a different UI around it.