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Martijn Pick any programming (or scripting) language that can write to stdout, and suddenly you can put stuff in your Mac's menu bar. I am intrigued. getbitbar.com
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Eric Neat, I'll be making stuff for sure! cheers for the creative nudge :)
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Nkrs In Linux land, the equivalent programs are Conky and tint2.
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Mark Dain Oh that's neat! Reminds me of AnyBar; github.com/tonsky/...
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🦿 Lucian Marin You don't want Python or Node to always run on your laptop while on battery. I found no use for BitBar last year when I tried it. You have to use a compiled language to get good performance.
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Mark Dain As far as I can tell from playing with it, it updates every few minutes and cannot tail output from a long running process so I don't understand how you had it running continuously. A light Python or PHP script seems fine for providing text to this.
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Martijn Being strictly a web developer, I have never bothered learning a compiled language though. So this still seems perfect to me
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