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  • Stream Deck
  • Apple Music
  • Side project

Why I built my own Apple Music plugin for Stream Deck

I wanted proper Apple Music controls on my Stream Deck +, on both macOS and Windows. The plugins I found fell short, so I built Glass: Liquid Glass keys on album colours that stretch across the whole deck.

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  • .NET
  • Minimal APIs
  • Architecture

Getting Started with .NET Minimal APIs

How to define endpoints with .NET Minimal APIs, inject dependencies and compare the code with controllers, without letting everything end up in Program.cs.

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