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Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by marcosscriven on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @07:08AM (#11064736)
I find Hammerspoon[0] ideal for this kind of thing, and dynamically scriptable in Lua too. [1]

[0] http://www.hammerspoon.org/

[1] http://www.hammerspoon.org/go/#simplemenubar

Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by sdegutis on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:08AM (#11066177)
I can vouch for Hammerspoon, it is an excellent scriptable Lua environment with built-in hooks for probably every native OS X feature you've ever wanted to script. Great project, I highly recommend it.
Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by Carrok on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:00PM (#11066720)
I just found Hammerspoon two days ago, and already it's become indispensable. Defeating paste-blockers on websites? Yes please!
Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by wingerlang on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:56PM (#11070834)
Can you compare it to Keyboard Maestro, assuming you've tried it out.
Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by cmsj on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:38PM (#11135995)
KM is a lot easier to use than HS, but likely more frustrating for programmers.
Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by bezhermoso on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:36PM (#11068971)
Another Hammerspoon user chiming in. Discovered it one day and got hooked by how easy it is to get things done. This is coming from someone who never wrote any Lua before.

I love that you can create URI scheme triggers. It makes it so trivial to automate stuff in Hammerspoon from other tools.

Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by lwdallas on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:22PM (#11070170)
What is the URL of he project? Nm, learned how to read entire post :)
Re:Show HN: BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar by lwdallas on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @08:30PM (#11070201)
Thanks for the link! This looks extremely handy for automating my dev workflow!