{"id":29221,"date":"2020-06-15T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29221"},"modified":"2020-06-15T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:05:39","slug":"bitbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/bitbar\/","title":{"rendered":"BitBar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/06\/12\/bitbar-lets-you-put-anything-in-your-macs-menu-bar\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/06\/12\/bitbar-lets-you-put-anything-in-your-macs-menu-bar\/\"><p>There are all sorts of apps that add various capabilities to your Mac&rsquo;s menu bar, but I&rsquo;ve stumbled across one that can add literally <i>anything<\/i> to the menu bar through a plug-in system. It&rsquo;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/getbitbar.com\/\">BitBar<\/a>, and it&rsquo;s both free and open source. I&rsquo;ve tested and confirmed that it works in both macOS 10.14 Mojave and 10.15 Catalina.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The beauty of BitBar is that any script that works in Terminal can be a BitBar plug-in. It could be a simple shell script, a Python script, a Ruby script, or even an AppleScript if you put the right hooks in. It also means that you can easily modify all the available plug-ins in any text editor, and you may be able to figure out how to make small changes just by following the script&rsquo;s example, even if you don&rsquo;t know the scripting language well. In fact, that&rsquo;s a common situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: There are all sorts of apps that add various capabilities to your Mac&rsquo;s menu bar, but I&rsquo;ve stumbled across one that can add literally anything to the menu bar through a plug-in system. It&rsquo;s called BitBar, and it&rsquo;s both free and open source. I&rsquo;ve tested and confirmed that it works in both macOS [&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":"2020-06-15T21:05:43Z","apple_news_api_id":"04b57786-08dc-4c7f-bbb0-a8669ee1e1e7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-06-15T21:05:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABLV3hgjcTH-7sKhmnuHh5w","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":[1952,30,32,1609,1666,74],"class_list":["post-29221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bitbar","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-14","tag-macos-10-15","tag-opensource"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221","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=29221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29222,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29221\/revisions\/29222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}