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---
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name: "ticker"
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subtitle: "An LED-style scrolling ticker for the Mac menu bar, fed from the command line"
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date: 2026-05-06
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link: "https://github.com/rhsev/ticker"
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linkText: "github.com/rhsev/ticker"
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source: "Brett Terpstra"
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topics:
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- macos-apps
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- tools
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tags: [menu-bar, cli, retro, open-source]
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description: "Notifications stack and disappear; ticker scrolls through the menu bar at 20fps in 5×7 dot matrix, and the motion is what catches your eye."
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The author's case for ticker: motion catches the eye, notifications don't. ticker scrolls a queue of messages through a configurable-width menu bar slot at 20fps in a 5×7 dot-matrix font (Adafruit GFX bitmap), advancing one column per frame so it stays pixel-smooth without burning CPU. Drive it from any script with `ticker --send "..."`, `--urgent`, or `--very-urgent` (which interrupts the current scroll). macOS 12+, Apple Silicon or Intel.
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