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Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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Post by realharo »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #7

If I wanted to vibe code my own macOS menu bar apps is this a good starter project to use as a template? Are there any others? Do I just not need one (claude code can do it without a starter template at all)?

Speaking of the macOS menu bar, is there some way to make it overflow into a hidden area behind an "expand" button that would appear when there is no more room, like the notification area in Windows does?

The macOS UI decision of "just pretend that whatever doesn't fit to the right of the notch doesn't exist" is baffling.

I've seen a few apps that claim to do that, but it's always done in some really hacky way (such as needing screen recording permissions), and the behavior is never that of simple overflow handling. Instead they have "always hidden" sections and things like that, which is not what I want.

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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Post by bartvk »

realharo wrote: post #15
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #7

If I wanted to vibe code my own macOS menu bar apps is this a good starter project to use as a template? Are there any others? Do I just not need one (claude code can do it without a starter template at all)?

Speaking of the macOS menu bar, is there some way to make it overflow into a hidden area behind an "expand" button that would appear when there is no more room, like the notification area in Windows does? The macOS UI decision of "just pretend that whatever doesn't fit to the right of the notch doesn't exist" is baffling. I've seen a few apps that claim to do that, but it's always done in some really hacky way (such…

I decrease the spacing that macOS applies between menubar icons:

  % defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
  % defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 8

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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Post by RichHickson »

realharo wrote: post #15
kingkongjaffa wrote: post #7

If I wanted to vibe code my own macOS menu bar apps is this a good starter project to use as a template? Are there any others? Do I just not need one (claude code can do it without a starter template at all)?

Speaking of the macOS menu bar, is there some way to make it overflow into a hidden area behind an "expand" button that would appear when there is no more room, like the notification area in Windows does? The macOS UI decision of "just pretend that whatever doesn't fit to the right of the notch doesn't exist" is baffling. I've seen a few apps that claim to do that, but it's always done in some really hacky way (such…

I used to use Bartender, which worked really well, until the newest version, which had so many issues. Since then, I've just basically put up with it.

Re: Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

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Post by Etheryte »

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #7

If I wanted to vibe code my own macOS menu bar apps is this a good starter project to use as a template? Are there any others? Do I just not need one (claude code can do it without a starter template at all)?

Use Hammerspoon [0][1], it comes with a lot of macOS integrations out of the box and you write Lua, which takes zero effort to pick up and use. For me a big benefit is that you don't need to touch Xcode at all.

[0] https://www.hammerspoon.org

[1] https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.menubar.html

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