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**Jerod Santo:** I know. That was the most intriguing one to me. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** It does so much...! |
**Jerod Santo:** I know... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. Actually, honestly, you wouldn't believe some of them. The clipboard ones are my favorite. |
**Jerod Santo:** I was very impressed. |
**Mat Ryer:** There's a lot of clipboard, or there's a few clipboard-related plugins which do great things. One of them is a Base64 encoder, so you can copy some file, or you copy something, and then it runs periodically, so I think they have it to run every second, or whatever it is... And then anything in your clipbo... |
The other one was the clipboard history, which has been in there for a while, which shows you your last ten copies and pastes. |
**Jerod Santo:** Yeah, that's great. |
**Mat Ryer:** And you can switch between them as well. I thought that was just really clever... Because that's like almost an application in its own right. |
**Jerod Santo:** I was gonna say it's replacing -- because I have an application; I think it's called CopyClip, which is basically that functionality alone... And it has some niceties, where you can set how many it'll keep, and it'll automatically put it back into your clipboard when you click on it... Stuff like that.... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, yeah. Well, it is. And clocks, and music controls, and things like that are all in there. The time ones are very interesting, because there's some funny ones, and then there's some really useful ones. There's a Unix time one, that somebody submitted ages ago... If you wanna know the time in Unix tim... |
**Jerod Santo:** It's right there. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** There you go. |
**Jerod Santo:** So does it only run on a schedule, or can you actually interact -- like, could you click a button inside xbar and trigger a thing to run? |
**Mat Ryer:** Yes. And you can even wire up a menu item to tell it to refresh as well. There's actually quite a lot you can do to the menu items themselves, including you can open a URL, you can run a script... That means you can actually -- and if you have some state somewhere, which is up to the plugin how it does th... |
**Jerod Santo:** \[52:03\] I'm excited to hear what our community of listeners come up with once they start playing with this thing, because the sky really is the limit. Let's get back to this list here... Can xbar manage Adam's PiHole? |
**Mat Ryer:** \[laughs\] I don't know what that means. |
**Jerod Santo:** Adam, tell him about your PiHole. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, PiHole runs on a Raspberry Pi, and it's essentially a DNS for blocking all the ads, essentially. It's called a PiHole because it runs on a Raspberry Pi primarily, but you can probably run it on anything, honestly... But it's best installed on a Raspberry Pi, because it's a small device, pop in... |
**Jerod Santo:** And how do you manage it now? Is there like a web admin or something for it? |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yeah, it's just in an IP address which I won't disclose, but... It's a local IP address essentially, and it has its own web login; you can log into it. I'm pretty sure there'd be an API to it, so I'm assuming that you probably could... |
Actually, that would be useful because the one thing I do often - or at least often enough - is log into it to disable it for a duration of time. They have a dropdown where you can say "Disable for 5 minutes, 10 minutes..." Because you might want to browse a site... |
**Jerod Santo:** Totally. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** ...there's links that break because of the tracking, so temporarily you wanna like "Okay, I'm cool with this link here. Let me do my thing, PiHole" and you sort of wanna stop it... But it's a network-wide catcher for the whole network. So no matter what device -- you're not doing this stuff on indiv... |
**Jerod Santo:** Well, let me answer it for him, because Mat didn't know what PiHole was, so he will not be able to answer. There is a PiHole manager plugin... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Nice! |
**Mat Ryer:** Oh... |
**Jerod Santo:** So yes, you can manage that. And I can see where that would be a very confusing question if you're not having any context there, Mat, so... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. |
**Jerod Santo:** ...I appreciate you just taking that with grace. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** We won't blame you. |
**Mat Ryer:** Pie hole is your mouth, isn't it? |
**Jerod Santo:** \[laughs\] Yes, exactly. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes... |
**Jerod Santo:** It's a pun on your mouth, yeah. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, it makes sense. |
**Jerod Santo:** So \[unintelligible 00:54:15.04\] that would have also been correct. |
**Mat Ryer:** It's because your mouth is round, isn't it? |
**Jerod Santo:** Well, no, it's not because it's round, it's because it's where you put your pie. You put it in the pie hole. |
**Mat Ryer:** I thought it had to do with Pythagoras. |
**Jerod Santo:** \[unintelligible 00:54:23.29\] |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Sometimes. Sometimes. |
**Jerod Santo:** Can xbar show and manage Homebrew services? Let me just answer this one, because I'm excited. Yes, you can manage your Homebrew services. That's a really cool feature. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Yes... So at this point I was like -- because there's a lot of stuff it can do... But do I want all this in my menu bar? So at that point you start to get overloaded, and you've gotta untuck, and hide, and things like that... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. |
**Adam Stacoviak:** So does this really make sense as a menu bar thing? Could you give it a tiny UI versus just simply a menu bar? So maybe you can talk about how people push the limits of this and how maybe your menu bar will become super-cluttered. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, that is a fair point... And really, it's kind of up to people, I think. But with the image support -- it supports images, and the way that works is you Base64 encode the image and you literally print it out in a special way. So everything is just text-based and simple, but people have done some amaz... |
**Adam Stacoviak:** Well, they're just so useful. |
**Jerod Santo:** That's kind of like when Firefox first added extensions... I probably had 75 extensions installed. My Firefox got very slow, and I got mad at Firefox, and I'm like "Wait a second, Jerod... You are also in control of all these extensions. You don't have to install every extension that comes out." |
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