{"id":11011,"date":"2015-04-09T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:57:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:57:29","slug":"anybar-and-superduper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/anybar-and-superduper\/","title":{"rendered":"AnyBar and SuperDuper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2015\/04\/anybar-and-superduper\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2015\/04\/anybar-and-superduper\/\">\n<p>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/onethingwell.org\/post\/115761105187\/anybar\">One Thing Well posted an article<\/a> on a utility called <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tonsky\/AnyBar\">AnyBar<\/a>, written by Nikita Prokopov, that lets you put a colored dot in your menubar by sending your computer a UDP message. As soon as I read the article, I knew I could make some use of it.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Instead of putting a bunch of words on my Desktop, I could just put a colored dot in my menubar&mdash;green for a successful backup, red for a failure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2015-04-24): <a href=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2015\/04\/more-anybar\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2015\/04\/more-anybar\/\"><p>Unbeknownst to all of us, though, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richsomerfield.com\/apps\/\">TextBar<\/a> a $3 app from Rich Somerfield that already does what T.J. wants. It doesn&rsquo;t display graphics, but with Emoji and the rest of Unicode, I doubt that&rsquo;s a significant limitation. TextBar seems to have a simpler user interface, especially when you want to display more than one signal in your menubar, but it&rsquo;s meant to be used only for signals that are updated regularly. AnyBar is more flexible, but that flexibility comes with reduced simplicity.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: Today, One Thing Well posted an article on a utility called AnyBar, written by Nikita Prokopov, that lets you put a colored dot in your menubar by sending your computer a UDP message. As soon as I read the article, I knew I could make some use of it. [&#8230;] Instead of putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1170,146,30,32,232,369,1180],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anybar","tag-backup","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-python","tag-superduper","tag-textbar"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11061,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}