• Managing Your Mac Menu Bar: A Roundup of My Favorite Bartender Alternatives - MacStories

    this is for future reference. i too, am freaked out by some of the permissions required by some of these apps. also, i need to install tailscale on my personal laptop.

    it’s likely best to keep the number of things in the menubar to a minimum and cut the spacing down as far as makes sense. the defaults for handling this are outlined in this article as well.