Writing from FeedsBar: the Mac news ticker, the Signal 500, and how it is built. https://feeds.bar/feed.xml 2026-11-01T09:45:00Z FeedsBarhttps://feeds.bar/ https://feeds.bar/best-longform-essays/october-2026/ 2026-11-01T09:43:00Z 2026-11-01T09:43:00Z

Sixteen essays worth an evening, from Aeon, Psyche, Asterisk, Chartbook, The Pudding and eight more, chosen by hand out of 1,173 published in October 2026.

https://feeds.bar/google-trends-screensaver/ 2026-10-31T09:59:00Z 2026-10-31T09:59:00Z

What happened to the Google Trends screensaver, what Google Trends TV shows now, and a full-screen board built in the same spirit for news headlines.

https://feeds.bar/spare-monitor-news-wall/ 2026-10-31T09:58:00Z 2026-10-31T09:58:00Z

Set up a second screen to show live headlines full screen: keep it awake, bring it back after a restart with a Safari web app, or run it on a Raspberry Pi in kiosk mode.

https://feeds.bar/board/ 2026-10-31T09:57:00Z 2026-10-31T09:57:00Z

A full-screen board of live headlines that runs in any current browser. Big cards turn one at a time, with optional tickers top and bottom. 30-day free trial, then $24.99 once; one key covers the Mac app too.

https://feeds.bar/reddit-rss/ 2026-10-22T09:56:00Z 2026-10-22T09:56:00Z

Reddit retires its RSS feeds on November 13, 2026. We read 2,452 top posts from 25 subreddits and found a working feed for what each one links to, plus Lemmy and Mastodon for the rest.

https://feeds.bar/best-longform-essays/ 2026-09-29T09:45:00Z 2026-11-01T09:45:00Z

Hand-picked essays from each month, chosen from everything our Ideas & Longform sources published. Standalone essays only, no roundups, with the method published.

https://feeds.bar/best-longform-essays/september-2026/ 2026-09-29T09:44:00Z 2026-09-29T09:44:00Z

Fifteen essays worth an evening, from Aeon, Longreads, Psyche, Public Domain Review and seven more, chosen by hand out of 1,129 published in September 2026.

https://feeds.bar/mac-menu-bar-apps/ 2026-09-26T09:55:00Z 2026-10-27T09:55:00Z

v1.11 hid nothing on macOS 27 (a sandboxed build by mistake); v1.11.1 fixes that, but the clock stops opening Notification Center. The workaround, and the alternatives by ship date.

https://feeds.bar/apple-press-measured/ 2026-09-26T09:54:00Z 2026-09-26T09:54:00Z

What nine Mac news sites load when you open them. Six carry two ad domains or fewer; the heaviest carries 58. All nine named, with the method and the limits.

https://feeds.bar/best-rss-feeds/ 2026-09-26T09:53:00Z 2026-10-22T09:53:00Z

Every feed scored on quality and ad load, and checked for when it last posted. 13 categories, URLs to copy, OPML per category, and what the Reddit RSS shutdown means.

https://feeds.bar/mac-ticker-apps/ 2026-09-26T09:52:00Z 2026-10-31T09:52:00Z

21 Mac ticker apps with the date each last shipped, checked against Apple and GitHub. Stock tickers are healthy, crypto is mixed. News tickers are almost all abandoned.

https://feeds.bar/engineering/shazamkit-provisioning/ 2026-08-30T09:51:00Z 2026-08-30T09:51:00Z

Our ShazamKit feature worked in every debug build and failed in every shipped one. Why Developer ID apps need an embedded provisioning profile for App Services, the two xcodebuild flags that fix it, and the zsh builtin that faked the logs.

https://feeds.bar/reading-the-news-2026/ 2026-08-30T09:50:00Z 2026-10-22T09:50:00Z

We loaded 890 news sites in a real browser and counted what came with them. Mass-reach sites run a median 39 third-party domains. The indie tier runs 8.

https://feeds.bar/best-mac-apps/ 2026-08-30T09:49:00Z 2026-09-26T09:49:00Z

macOS is most of the way there. Ten apps that finish it, each with the gap it closes. No affiliate links, no paid placements, and the one we make says so.

https://feeds.bar/signal-500/method/ 2026-08-15T09:48:00Z 2026-08-31T09:48:00Z

How every Signal 500 source is scored: loaded in a real browser with the cookie banner accepted, ad entities and third parties counted, layout shift and reach measured. Which dimensions are measured, which are judgment, and the published weights.

https://feeds.bar/compare/ 2026-08-08T09:47:00Z 2026-08-30T09:47:00Z

How FeedsBar differs from menu bar RSS apps, full RSS readers and following news on X, written by the people who make it. A private, one-time-purchase macOS ticker with topic orbs. For the wider category, see our survey of every Mac ticker app.

https://feeds.bar/ticker/ 2026-08-07T09:46:00Z 2026-08-08T09:46:00Z

The stock ticker, the Times Square zipper, the Nasdaq tower and the news crawl that never left after 2001, and what changes when you choose what runs across it.