[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":273},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-11064270":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":41,"post_text":44,"what":45,"said":61,"maker_in_thread":159,"shape":161,"grid":166,"attempts":236,"same_week":237,"maker_shows":42,"maker_hidden":265,"reader_version":266,"card":267},"11064270","BitBar","Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar","title","Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar","https:\u002F\u002Fgetbitbar.com\u002F#.Vrm140voO5A.hackernews","getbitbar.com","matryer",1455011311,2016,149,30,223,2264,10,"notable","dev_tools","menu bar utility","desktop_app",[24,25,26,27],"menu bar","mac os x","menu bar plugins","scripting","debated",0.282,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},7,2,0,3,12,{"idea":37,"execution":39,"docs":40},{"positive":38,"critical":33},6,{"positive":33,"critical":34},{"positive":33,"critical":33},[33,33,33,33,33,33,33,42,42,33,33,43,42,42,43,43,33,33,34,42,42,33,33,33,33,42,34,33,33,33],5,1,null,{"problem":44,"audience":46,"pricing":44,"motivation":44,"time_to_build":44,"stack":58,"openness":59,"stage":60,"team_size":59},{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Mac users who script and want glanceable information","inferred",[50,54],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},"11064485","wingerlang","Previous thread: https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=10835544 As far as the app, been sporting it for a while now and I really like it. Github is active as well. I'm a big fan…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"11064929","onion2k","I've been using it for a while. It's ace. A couple of plugins I've written for it: List local vagrant boxes with statuses: https:\u002F\u002Fgist.github.com\u002Fonion2k\u002F3462b6effd55472aa192…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":62,"objections":88,"requests":111,"questions":120,"alternatives":127},[63,80],{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Useful for showing script output such as sales, docker status, or bank spending in the menu bar","commenter",[67,68,72,76],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"11064789","lhnz","I love this app. I connected it to my bank in order that I could watch my monthly spending through my menu bar [0]. Surprisingly useful way of managing money as it makes it…",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"11064662","tikumo","I use it to display my (remote) docker uptime stats and the external\u002Finternal ip adres. It works quite nice.",{"id":77,"by":78,"text":79},"11065807","willyt","This is really useful. I'm going to dump billings and use this to record time for invoicing to clients in a .yaml file and add a nice little preprocessor for creating a csv file…",{"value":81,"source":65,"evidence":82},"Easy to add plugins by dropping a shell script in a directory",[83,87],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"11065835","xd1936","I would love to see something as well-packaged, but for Linux. Most of the answers that people give end up being QT APIs or other dev tools. Bitbar is just so much easier... Put…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},[89,104],{"value":90,"source":65,"evidence":91},"Plugins fail with 'launch path not accessible' unless made executable with chmod +x",[92,96,100],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"11064647","spurgu","I get \"launch path not accessible\" whichever plugin I try to run. :(",{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"11065866","personlurking","This happens to me, too, with a yellow triangle icon showing. Running in Terminal shows \"No such file or directory\" (strange since I even redownloaded it).",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"11065502","axx","Just as a quick sidenote: If your plugin directory is inside your User folder, it seems that you have to add the +x flag to your plugins. Example: chmod +x pluginname.sh",{"value":105,"source":65,"evidence":106},"Bug can create multiple BitBars in the menu bar",[107],{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"11065039","hmottestad","There is still an annoying bug that will create multiple BitBars in the menu bar. https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmatryer\u002Fbitbar\u002Fissues\u002F21",[112],{"value":113,"source":65,"evidence":114},"A Linux or Ubuntu equivalent",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"11064390","qsimd","does something similar exist for Ubuntu?",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},[121],{"value":122,"source":65,"evidence":123},"How to install a plugin from GitHub",[124],{"id":125,"by":98,"text":126},"11065459","Forgive my ignorance but how do I get a plugin to work with BitBar? There's no download button on Git for the reddit plugin (do I need to sign up for Github to see it?)",[128,139,145,152],{"value":129,"source":65,"evidence":130},"Hammerspoon",[131,135],{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"11064736","marcosscriven","I find Hammerspoon[0] ideal for this kind of thing, and dynamically scriptable in Lua too. [1] [0] http:\u002F\u002Fwww.hammerspoon.org\u002F [1] http:\u002F\u002Fwww.hammerspoon.org\u002Fgo\u002F#simplemenubar",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"11066177","sdegutis","I can vouch for Hammerspoon, it is an excellent scriptable Lua environment with built-in hooks for probably every native OS X feature you've ever wanted to script. 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