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Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by 9935c101ab17a66 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 3:55 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

I'm a huge, huge fan of hammerspoon. It's replaced so many other small utilities for me.

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by KMnO4 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

tylerritchie wrote: post #15

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

KeepingYouAwake is nice (and I'm not about to pretend the following solution is good for everyone), however, I've found on the last couple of McBook fresh installs using caffeinate [1] from the terminal is sufficient. I usually have a terminal open anyway and `caffeinate -d -t 999999` usually does what I want (stay awake until I come back and tell you to go to sleep). Usually it's two keystrokes away (up arrow, enter…

You can omit the -t and it will run forever.

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by justwalt » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 4:31 PM UTC

9935c101ab17a66 wrote: post #21

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

I'm a huge, huge fan of hammerspoon. It's replaced so many other small utilities for me.

When I started using a Mac for work, the fact that so much functionality which is available free on Linux was now locked behind a paywall in the App Store was frustrating.

Hammerspoon gave me basically all of it back, in a scriptable form which makes it much better suited to what I want. It’s truly great software.

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by aquir » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 4:46 PM UTC

It would be awesome to find something similar to windows...I can imagine "boosting up" my taskbar with this kind of stuff. If anyone knows a similar app to Windows please let us know

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by aquir » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 4:52 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

CyberDuck is amazing! (MountainDuck also) Thanks for recommending mate

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by weaksauce » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

tylerritchie wrote: post #15

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

KeepingYouAwake is nice (and I'm not about to pretend the following solution is good for everyone), however, I've found on the last couple of McBook fresh installs using caffeinate [1] from the terminal is sufficient. I usually have a terminal open anyway and `caffeinate -d -t 999999` usually does what I want (stay awake until I come back and tell you to go to sleep). Usually it's two keystrokes away (up arrow, enter…

you can throw an alias in your .bashrc or .zshrc and have it even easier...

alias caffeine="caffeinate -d -t 999999"

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by michaelmior » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:41 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

Thanks for this! I was going to mention Spectacle[0], but I'll see that it's no longer maintained. I'll have to check out Rectangle :)

EDIT: I see Rectangle is based on Spectacle!

[0] https://www.spectacleapp.com/

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by thamer » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:42 PM UTC

I love BitBar and currently have 6 separate tools in my menu bar to keep track of things like Kubernetes instances in various QA environments, local services running on my machine (with stats + start/stop buttons + recent logs), or jobs running on cloud platforms.

It's a fantastic tool and I'd encourage anyone who is thinking about building a tiny menubar app in just a few lines of code to look into it.

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by thamer » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC

michaelmior wrote: post #27

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

Thanks for this! I was going to mention Spectacle[0], but I'll see that it's no longer maintained. I'll have to check out Rectangle :) EDIT: I see Rectangle is based on Spectacle! [0] https://www.spectacleapp.com/

I also used to run Spectacle and was worried about it no longer working at some point (like after a macOS upgrade).

Rectangle is all that Spectacle was – same default key bindings – and more.

Re: Xbar: The BitBar reboot. Put anything in your macOS menu bar

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Post by drewzero1 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

m12k wrote: post #9

I've been discovering more and more high quality open source apps for Mac recently. My other favorites so far: https://github.com/iterate-ch/cyberduck https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/sfsam/Itsycal https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake

I've been using CyberDuck since PowerPC 10.5. I don't open it much any more because sftp feels like it takes less effort (despite the lack of autocomplete on Mac) but I do keep it installed. I can also vouch for ItsyCal, another one of the first things I install on a fresh Mac.