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I used this for something similar, and is very customisable https://github.com/matryer/xbar

comment by hackermanve · 2025-05-12 · in I hacked my clock to control my focus

…to have several widgets just for system stats but eventually moved to mac-stats [3] for that. [1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar [2] https://menubarx.app/ [3] https://github.com/exelban/stats

comment by Nezteb · 2025-04-08 · in Show HN: Badgeify – Add Any App to Your Mac Menu Bar

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story by zdw · 2025-02-09 · 0 comments

Also xbar: https://github.com/matryer/xbar

comment by memset · 2024-06-07 · in Ice – open source menu bar manager for macOS

…sad. macOS users can do exactly the same, for free, with an app like xbar [1] or bitbar [2]. [1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar [2] https://macmenubar.com/bitbar/

comment by guessmyname · 2024-04-12 · in Show HN: Wunderbar – Learn language while working on your Mac

…to read my whatsapp messages, redis for storage/interop, and a script written for https://github.com/matryer/xbar for a "GUI", instead of running WhatsApp Desktop / WhatsApp Web on my machine (very bad for my attention), I have a status bar

comment by guyrap · 2023-12-13 · in Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

Thanks, and yes. I've been a heavy user of https://github.com/matryer/xbar for years. A tool which lets you build menus and actions from bash scripting. Super helpful but they tend to be a bit more static and often breaks with unexpected…

comment by wingerlang · 2023-03-31 · in Show HN: A small utility (repo manager, shortcuts, etc.) I made for devs (macOS)

…is actually a little bit more powerful still. I can't find it any more but this looks similar - https://github.com/matryer/xbar#get-started

comment by smcl · 2022-06-04 · in WorldWideWeb.app

…the context. Something like 1892 braille [2] might be better for encoding arbitrary sequences. [1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1829_braille

comment by lifthrasiir · 2021-07-04 · in Show HN: Braille Dump

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story by Brajeshwar · 2021-07-01 · 0 comments

birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar

comment by ilogik · 2021-06-19 · in Show HN: Check the things that matter to you in the menubar

How about xbar? https://github.com/matryer/xbar

comment by djbeadle · 2021-05-22 · in Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen

…folder to your old BitBar folder and everything works as expected. I opened an issue for it here: https://github.com/matryer/xbar/issues/653

comment by joshstrange · 2021-03-19 · in Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

…There are more details about the motivations and such by the author in the announcement issue: https://github.com/matryer/xbar/issues/607

comment by sdfhbdf · 2021-03-19 · in Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

The old repo is archived in the new one https://github.com/matryer/xbar/tree/master/archive/bitbar

comment by ihuman · 2021-03-19 · in Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

…function in XBar. A comprehensive comparison in one or the other's repo README could be useful [0]: https://github.com/matryer/xbar#advanced-apis [1]: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar#refresh-schedule [2]:…

comment by sdfhbdf · 2021-03-19 · in Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

Objective-C: https://web.archive.org/web/20210118051718/https://github.co...

comment by spurgu · 2021-03-19 · in Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

I can't find any reasons why it was rewritten. Was it C before? (I can't tell, because https://github.com/matryer/bitbar redirects to xbar)

comment by bajsejohannes · 2021-03-19 · in Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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story by tosh · 2021-03-13 · 0 comments

…in trying its spiritual successor SwiftBar [1] and any other alternatives folks know of. [0] https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/105 [1] https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar

comment by ykat7 · 2020-11-24 · in BitBar Needs a Developer

…killall -9 softwareupdated 2>/dev/null && echo "$(date) - Killed softwareupdated" done [1]: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar

comment by chrisshroba · 2020-10-20 · in Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu on macOS Big Sur

Just want to mention bitbar[1]. Write anything to stdout, it'll make it show up in the menu bar. [1] https://github.com/matryer/bitbar

comment by abcdabcd987 · 2020-07-30 · in Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings

Bitbar is useful and mostly abandoned at this point https://github.com/matryer/bitbar Terraform plug-in for vscode needs help, lots of people using it and doesn’t much work with terraform 0.12.x https://github.com/mauve/vscode-terraform

comment by mjmj · 2020-05-02 · in Ask HN: Any open-source projects need help?

Alternatively for other data you can use https://github.com/matryer/bitbar and code your own api consumer in a shell script.

comment by sschueller · 2019-12-11 · in Show HN: Cashbar app – your SaaS revenue in your menu bar

I have a few instances of bit bar monitoring services / logs / up time. https://github.com/matryer/bitbar This has completely stopped me from stressing/anxiety over potential issues as I can just look to the top of my screen.

comment by LiamPa · 2019-08-28 · in Ask HN: What have you automated that saved you a ton of time?

BitBar ( https://github.com/matryer/bitbar ) Allows you to create custom MacOS menubar items from the text output of any script.

comment by txmjs · 2018-10-15 · in Ask HN: What are you favorite tiny tools?

This can easily be done using the program BitBar. https://github.com/matryer/bitbar

comment by rubatuga · 2018-04-22 · in Show HN: Progress Bar OS X. How much % of a year/month/day has passed in menubar

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story by davidbarker · 2016-11-27 · 0 comments

Bitbar feels much better imo and allowing not just dots - any stuff https://github.com/matryer/bitbar

comment by out_of_protocol · 2016-11-27 · in AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator

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story by audessuscest · 2016-02-19 · 0 comments

…permissions correctly so bitbar can run the plugin. Instructions on permissions and such are here: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar#installing-plugins

comment by zaphar · 2016-02-09 · in Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar

There is still an annoying bug that will create multiple BitBars in the menu bar. https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/21

comment by hmottestad · 2016-02-09 · in Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar

Nice idea - you should raise an issue: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues

comment by matryer · 2016-01-06 · in BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

Can someone help on this? https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/issues/64

comment by matryer · 2016-01-05 · in BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

…my own post. Been having lots of fun playing with BitBar. Just finished a clipboard history plugin: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/47

comment by jtokoph · 2016-01-05 · in BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

…BitBar can do, I created a Spotify script. Until it's merged you can check out the pull request: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/34 Shows current track name and artist in menu bar. Shows track/artist/album in dropdown along with…

comment by jtokoph · 2016-01-05 · in BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

Done https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/pull/33/files

comment by soheil · 2016-01-05 · in BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

…and easy to extend. Is there a list of more plugins anywhere? There's only a few in the repo: https://github.com/matryer/bitbar/tree/master/Plugins

comment by seanwilson · 2016-01-05 · in BitBar: put the output from any script/program in your Mac OS X Menu Bar

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story by trueduke · 2016-01-04 · 64 comments