It’s a nice utility but I feel it is another activity that will further sap our focus. As if social media hasn’t done enough damage by utilizing “easy” to get our attention.
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#12Bitbar also does a decent job on Macos
birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar
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#13I realize that it's unlikely that I'll ever find it but I don't have the time to make it myself atm.
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#15Unfortunately the things that I keep checking don't have an API. So I've been looking for something like this that scrapes - and that can detect if it's a login page and log me in. I realize that it's unlikely that I'll ever find it but I don't have the time to make it myself atm.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar
I've switched to SwiftBar currently. https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've switched to SwiftBar currently. https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
Why did you switch? I use xbar to run a script every second for the existence of a file, and I noticed xbar using a lot of resources.
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#19Raycast does it as a spotlight replacement. I contributed a minor update to the Gitlab scripts. Can recommend
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#20What is the minimum refresh interval for auto-refresh?