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Well I must say that's remarkably clever
Lol. Reminds me of those flash projects we did back in 2006 during high school and college years. Good times. Good to see the new wave of developers and programmers still upholding this.
Nailed the startup sound!

Also cool how the source code github link is just another taskbar icon (as is the author's twitter feed).

Feels a lot snappier than the real thing :-)
Here’s my thought: support drag and drop to the desktop so you can use this to easily transfer files between machines. Copy/paste might be interesting too.
This is a detail, but it's imo illustrative of how refined Apple UI is and how easy it is to get it wrong.

The design of how the Dock scales and animates follows a very simple principle: if the mouse is outside the dock, and you move towards an icon vertically, entering the dock does not shift that icon around. Because that would make it feel "jello" and uneasy, like this imitation.

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