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matryer / xbar

xbar

Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

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What it is

Put the output from any script or program into your macOS Menu Bar (the BitBar reboot)

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:01:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year38 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-01-04 13:42:19 UTC to 2025-05-12 02:43:04 UTC.

0369122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 12 mentions; 3 submissions, 9 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 2 submissions, 8 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1239
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1028
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 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

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Welcome to xbar xbar (the BitBar reboot) lets you put the output from any script/program in your macOS menu bar. Complete rewrite from the ground up - in Go by @matryer and @leaanthony - using Wails.app (build cross-platform desktop apps using Go & HTML/CSS/JS) Completely open source Download latest xbar release - requires macOS Catalina or newer (>= 10.15) Visit the app homepage at https://xbarapp.com Get started and installing plugins Digging deeper: Browse plugin repository Guide to writing your own plugins And finally... Read the story about how xbar unexpectedly got going Contributing and special thanks Get started Install Download the latest release of xbar. Installing plugins From an xbar menu, choose Preferences > Plugins... to use the xbar app to discover and manage plugins. You can browse all the plugins online, or write your own. The Plugin Directory The plugin directory is folder on your Mac where the plugins live, located at ~/Library/Application Support/xbar/plugins. If you're transitioning from Bitbar, move your plugins into this new folder to install them Contributing If you'd like to contribute a plugin, head over to https://github.com/matryer/xbar-plugins to get started. Please do not send pull requests to this repo. Open an issue and start a conversation first. PRs will likely not be accepted. Get started with our Writing plugins guide Thanks Special thanks to @leaanthony at https://wails.app and @ianfoo, @gingerbeardman, @iosdeveloper, @muhqu, @m-cat, @mpicard, @tylerb for their help Thanks to Chris Ryer for the app logo - and to @mazondo for the original Thanks for all our plugin contributors who have come up with some pretty genius things
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