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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)
+![screenshot](screenshot.png)
 
+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 ~
-                            ~~~~~~
-```
-
-Any errors encountered by any sensor are propagated as alerts by the
-controller, which are in turn actualized as desktop notifications by the
-actuator:
-![screenshot-self-error-propagation](screenshot-self-error-propagation.jpg)
+| Name   | Status   | Language  | Tested-on               | Description |
+|--------|----------|-----------|-------------------------|-------------|
+| __x1__ | Archived | Bash, AWK |            Ubuntu 16.04 | Single, synchronous script, saving state in text files. |
+| __x2__ | Legacy   | Bash, AWK | Debian 10, Ubuntu 18.04 | Sensors are child processes, IPC via parent pipe. |
+| __x3__ | Archived | OCaml     | Debian 10               | Re-write and refinement of __x2__ |
+| __x4__ | Archived | Dash, AWK | Debian 10               | Sensors are opaque daemons, cache is a file tree |
+| __x5__ | Current  | C         |            Ubuntu 18.04 | Sensors are opaque daemons, IPC via `select`ed FIFOs. |