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Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

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Post by poisonborz »

lxgr wrote: post #62
poisonborz wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Making 1 click to access is faster than typing the app name in finder. Dock is usually full and used for different type of apps. Makes also constantly visible output possible with standard ui patterns.

> Dock is usually full My menu bar is also full and, unlike the Dock, I can’t resize it to fit more.

You can put it in a secondary onclick taskbar with Ice (similarly to Windows)

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

#75

Post by alexcroox »

poisonborz wrote: post #72
lxgr wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Dock is usually full My menu bar is also full and, unlike the Dock, I can’t resize it to fit more.

You can put it in a secondary onclick taskbar with Ice (similarly to Windows)

Just a heads up Ice is abandoned and broken on upcoming versions of MacOS. I still need to look into an alternative

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

#76

Post by zimpenfish »

j16sdiz wrote: post #34
thiagoperes wrote: post #30

I am definitely gonna contribute or fork to create an open leaderboard of cable brands and quality :D

It won't tell you the _quality_ It just tell you want the e-marker said.

> It just tell you want the e-marker said.

Which isn't helpful if the cable has no e-marker.

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

#77

Post by borski »

alexcroox wrote: post #75
poisonborz wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can put it in a secondary onclick taskbar with Ice (similarly to Windows)

Just a heads up Ice is abandoned and broken on upcoming versions of MacOS. I still need to look into an alternative

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/06/alternatives-bartender-...

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

#79

Post by BiteCode_dev »

aphroz wrote: post #17
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #13

Tangential, but LLT recently came out with their own lineup of USB-C cables guaranteed to be up to spec. And they have the main specs printed on each cable end, so you know what you grab. That should be mandatory.

You mean LTT ?

yes thx

Re: Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

#80

Post by kranner »

jaffee wrote: post #70
kranner wrote: post #45

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For some reason the app supports a separate standalone window mode as well [0]. It's not clear why the developer took the trouble to support two different modes when the menubar mode doesn't seem to add anything (like a live-updating icon for throughput). Well, I can think of one reason why it wasn't that much more trouble. François Chollet had a nice tweet [1] on why removing human cognitive friction is resulting in…

> removing human cognitive friction is resulting in needless software complexity This is kind of a hilarious statement just on the surface. Isn't removing burden from humans the whole purpose of software? How can you call the complexity "needless"?! (the actual tweet seems to go into a bit more detail around being incentivized to find good abstractions)

I think you're conflating the burden of creation with the burden of relevance, suitability, usability and usefulness of the created artifact. The more the person in charge is disengaged, the sloppier the output is likely to be.
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