LTOTD

"Lospec Tag of the Day"

A Mac OS menu bar app that displays the "Tag of the Day" from Lospec

Changes:

v1.1.0 - Adds the option to enable or disable notifications

Note

Due to limitations with the rumps framework, changing this preference doesn't update the notification permissions shown in MacOS System Settings

Getting Started

Start the app and it will automatically fetch the Tag of the Day

The app will refresh every hour while running, but you can also click on "Refresh" in the menu to refresh manually

You'll get a notification from the app when the #tag changes

Installation

You can download the latest release here

Important

If you get a warning message like this one when you try to open the app, just click "Cancel":

This is apparently caused by MacOS being overzealous about quarantining 3rd-party applications. To fix the issue, simply run the following command in your terminal: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/LTOTD.app

or you can...

Build it Yourself

If you're feeling motivated, you can also build the app yourself!

Note

You'll need Python installed (this app was built using Python 3.14)

1. Clone this repo
2. Open a terminal and navigate to the root of the cloned directory, LTOTD
3. OPTIONAL - set up and activate a virtual environment using venv or something similar
4. Run the command pip install -r requirements.txt to install the necessary dependencies
5. Run the command python setup.py py2app to build the app

If everything worked, you'll find the app here:

{wherever you cloned the repo}/LTOTD/dist/LTOTD.app

Dependencies

• httpx
• py2app
• rumps

TODO

• Windows support (coming soon!)

Acknowledgements

Lospec was created and is maintained by Sam Keddy, a.k.a Skeddles

• Lospec on Patreon
• Lospec on GitHub

All copyrights are property of their respective owners