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Jean-Tinland
simple-bar
JavaScript2022–2026
Jean-Tinland / simple-bar

simple-bar

A yabai and AeroSpace status bar widget for Übersicht

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.6KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A yabai and AeroSpace status bar widget for Übersicht

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2022-12-28 20:36:46 UTC to 2026-04-13 11:16:35 UTC.

012022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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That's nice! It feels polished and feature-full, but like others commented, I'm not seeing myself paying for this. On my end, I managed to first develop an open-source alternative status bar based on Übersicht (https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar) 6 years ago and then a standalone rewrite in Swift (https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/a-bar) if anyone is interested. Though both bars require yabai or AeroSpace to work.
In Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
LOL, it is as if 2011 and people are still doing 100 lines of code MAS apps for $1.99 In meantime I have became so frustrated and disillusioned with Apple breaking API and walled garden model that I refuse to even open Mac App Store. Guess how many similar apps are still functional and maintained there released way back, as many as nearly zero. Could have been 100 lines widget for https://tracesof.net/uebersicht-widgets/ Meantime there is things like this out there, free as air https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
In Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen
In my experience, Rectangle is just an app to organize apps like Windows does, hotkeys to move somewhere. Yabai is a more complete windows manager. It has some features like: - Automatic Tiling, Stack or Floating windows - Shortcuts to move between windows based on position (like other tiling wms) - Create, move and destroy workspaces - Move apps to specific workspaces - Windows borders Plus it integrates really well with https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
In More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey

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