touchbar_nyancat

`nyancat` (as a shell command) puzzled me briefly. Now I see. Not available on macOS, except for unfortunates with a new macbook 'appointed' with a fake keyboard: https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat

I recently picked up a 2017 15 inch with Touch Bar and I honestly love it. I feel like it's one of the best MacBook Pro I have ever owned (soldered components and all), except for the first 17 inch Aluminum PowerBook and my Thinkpad 600E/X it's my favorite laptop so far. I like the touch bar too (Nyan Cat [0] makes it worth it alone). It seems like it's ripe for playing around, fun little hacking/side project fun, and who knows, maybe something useful can come of it. It also just seems like the next step up from the finger readers on all the other laptops in the marketplace currently. [0] https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat

I don't have a new Macbook pro. But I use duet display, and it enables the touchbar on an ipad running as a second screen. I looked through the apps I use, and none seem to do anything interesting with the touchbar – if they use it at all. Is there anything neat you can do with it so far? For example, someone made this useless (but fun) project: https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat Has anyone made useful ones? Are there shortcuts you've coded in you've found useful? Do any apps have features that really shine with the touchbar? Note: Duet's touchbar can't use touchid. Other than that, I believe it has all the features of the regular touchbar.

Not OP, but as far as the direction many developers seem to leaning right now, your opinion might be the more unusual case. I did try the TouchBar, and not only did I find it not delightful, but it was so obviously going to be not a useful tool for me that I'd go out of my way to have a computer that didn't have one, even if there was no price difference. I don't think that this is just an anti-progress mentality either. My dynamic functions already had a home before the TouchBar: on my screen. That way, they're their at eye level and easily accessible via keyboard shortcut. Especially because it doesn't have anything like tactile feedback, the TouchBar really adds nothing to this equation (unless maybe you're a very heavy emoji user or want the equivalent of a dynamic nyancat sticker [1]). I realize that I feel more strongly about it tha

This, obviously: https://youtu.be/E7Or2M7XUb4 https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat

thank me later: https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat