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BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

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Re: BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

#51

All I want in my menu bar is a UTC clock next to my local clock. Do we have a tool for that?

I've found ItsyCal to be wonderful: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

It can run alongside the system's menu bar clock. I've replaced the stock menu bar clock with "E yyyyMMdd-HHmm z" (so, for example, "Mon 20191216-1244 UTC"). And clicking it brings up a simple calendar. Simple and fast and works the way I think -- almost everything I want in a tool (wish it was open source).

Re: BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

#53
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hot tip for more space in your menu bar: Bartender — https://www.macbartender.com/

Another option is Vanilla: https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/

Yet another option: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

Re: BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

#55

Great tool. Call me a troglodyte, but I love the fact that it's written in ObjC, not Swift.

I’d call you a person of taste and sophistication.

But more objectively, it is always a pleasure to come to some open source code base and know you have few worries about language churn incurring a maintenance cost.

Re: BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

#56
post #48

How did you guys find out about bitbar before now? Product hunt? Reddit?

It's already been posted here a few times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064270

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17907922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21797664

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17279599

Re: BitBar: Put the output of any script on your macOS menu bar

#57
I use Bitbar to display my current Apple Music song in the menu bar.

Works pretty well, and it was easy to customize the iTunes script I downloaded from their user scripts page. Was nice when I went to Catalina and the only changed I needed to make was %s/iTunes/Music for the AppleScript target name change and the plugin just worked.

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