Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.

Mosh is a replacement for SSH. It's more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi, cellular, and long-distance links.

Mosh is free software, available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.

A reader named Tony left a comment on my Duplicating Safari browsing sessions post, recommending that I try out appscript for my AppleScript bridging needs. I frequently use system calls to osascript to do this, and I’ve shied away from scripting bridges in the past because they make things much harder to share and distribute. I thought I’d give it a try, though.

I like it. I like it a lot. It’s frustrating that I can’t just hand you this script without a list of requirements and dependencies, but I’m going share it anyway, just to show off some of the appscript’s capabilities.

What I built was a CLI for OmniFocus. I had an AppleScript/Ruby monstrosity that actually worked with TaskPaper, The Hit List, Things and OmniFocus, but that one got out of hand. I took the good parts of it, concentrated on OmniFocus and converted it to appscript in short time. The result is OTask.

Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).

A small collection of command line tools for Mac OS X

The $ character is used for parameter expansion, and command substitution. You can use it for manipulating and/or expanding variables on demands without using external commands such as sed or awk.