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Fretwork

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lived 230 days

Transposed every song I knew, which was four.

off by one

230 days

born died

Autopsy

Cause of death
Lost interest
Last words

“fix capo off-by-one”

final commit · 9 March 2014

Mood at death
Peace
Lines of code
5,120

Obituary

Fretwork stored guitar chord charts and could move a song into any key. It was started in July 2013, a month after its author bought a guitar.

The transposing worked. The capo calculation was wrong by one fret for most of its life and was corrected in the final commit, on 9 March 2014.

The database holds four songs. The guitar is still in the room, in its case.

What it taught me

The interest was in the guitar, not the app. The app was a way of not practising.