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 ======
 ![mascot](mascot.jpg)
 
-Experimental, system monitor and status (bar) reporter I use with
+Experimental system-monitor and status (bar) reporter I use with
 [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) on GNU/Linux.
 
 ![screenshot](screenshot.jpg)
 
+Experiments
+-----------
+The approaches experimented-with so far (later versions do not _necessarily_
+obsolete earlier ones, they're just different):
 
-Design
-------
-
-```
- parallel   +----------+  +----------+     +----------+
- stateless  | sensor_1 |  | sensor_2 | ... | sensor_n |
- collectors +----------+  +----------+     +----------+
-                |             |                 |
-              data          data              data
-                |             |                 |
-                V             V                 V
- serial     +-----------------------------------------+
- stateful   |              controller                 |
- observer   +-----------------------------------------+
-                              |
-                          decisions
-                              |
-                              V
- serial     +-----------------------------------------+
- stateless  |              actuator                   |
- executor   +-----------------------------------------+
-                              |
-                        system commands
-                              |
-                              V
-                            ~~~~~~
-                            ~ OS ~
-                            ~~~~~~
-```
+| Name   | Status | Language  | Tested-on               | Description |
+|--------|--------|-----------|-------------------------|-------------|
+| __x1__ | Works  | Bash, AWK | Ubuntu 16.04            | Single, synchronous script, saving state in text files |
+| __x2__ | Works  | Bash, AWK | Ubuntu 16.04, Debian 10 | Parallel processes: collectors, cache and reporters; passing messages over pipes |
+| __x3__ | In dev | OCaml     | Debian 10               | Re-write and refinement of __x2__ |