In many cases the tools do exist but a cultural decision has been made on all sides to pretend that you do not see them. Did you know you can write scripts to process data in Google Sheets? Did you know Applescript is still a thing?
September 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
In many cases the tools do exist but a cultural decision has been made on all sides to pretend that you do not see them. Did you know you can write scripts to process data in Google Sheets? Did you know Applescript is still a thing?
Vibe coding can be seen as part of a lineage that includes shell scripting, Applescript, Hypercard and Visual Basic.
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July 2, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Vibe coding can be seen as part of a lineage that includes shell scripting, Applescript, Hypercard and Visual Basic.
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For people making personal projects, vibe coding extends the power of shell scripting, cron jobs, Applescript, and other desktop automation tools to a wider audience.
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June 15, 2026 at 5:02 PM
For people making personal projects, vibe coding extends the power of shell scripting, cron jobs, Applescript, and other desktop automation tools to a wider audience.
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Thursday is the new Wednesday, and Lua is the new AppleScript :D
babe wake up it's another sdr episode about cursed things: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZP...
Blackmagic Fusion is weird
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July 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Thursday is the new Wednesday, and Lua is the new AppleScript :D
soul is found in the terminal and also AppleScript
June 30, 2026 at 3:31 PM
soul is found in the terminal and also AppleScript
so apple is abandoning applescript/jxa and leaving us with no way to control things like window focus, display brightness, system volume etc from shell without first pre-creating shortcuts in a gui app? not cool apple
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
so apple is abandoning applescript/jxa and leaving us with no way to control things like window focus, display brightness, system volume etc from shell without first pre-creating shortcuts in a gui app? not cool apple
Pixelmator Pro has an AppleScript dictionary, so I tried the @simonwillison.net test
July 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Pixelmator Pro has an AppleScript dictionary, so I tried the @simonwillison.net test
My favorite piece of language syntax ever is AppleScript’s “round as taught in school” developer.apple.com/library/arch...
Commands Reference
Defines the AppleScript scripting language. Includes many brief sample scripts.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My favorite piece of language syntax ever is AppleScript’s “round as taught in school” developer.apple.com/library/arch...
Current status: attempting to write an applescript 😅
May 26, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Current status: attempting to write an applescript 😅
This is the kind of task that fucking AppleScript has been able to automate for decades, come at me haters
March 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This is the kind of task that fucking AppleScript has been able to automate for decades, come at me haters
got tired of macos mail being shitty at search so i had claude write a mcp server to connect to it thru sqlite + applescript and it manages to be faster _and_ more accurate
February 28, 2026 at 3:51 PM
got tired of macos mail being shitty at search so i had claude write a mcp server to connect to it thru sqlite + applescript and it manages to be faster _and_ more accurate
i wrote some AppleScript for the labor movement today 😈
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
i wrote some AppleScript for the labor movement today 😈
This is pretty brilliant: the pelican riding a bicycle test implemented using AppleScript against Pixelmator Pro - which means you get editable layers for all of the components!
Pixelmator Pro has an AppleScript dictionary, so I tried the @simonwillison.net test
July 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is pretty brilliant: the pelican riding a bicycle test implemented using AppleScript against Pixelmator Pro - which means you get editable layers for all of the components!
July 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
That URL, when downloaded, yields a macOS Applescript which -- based on my quick scan -- crawls your filesystem in the background looking for files named "MetaMask", "BNB_Chain_Wallet" and similar files, and tells your browser to upload them to the mothership
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
That URL, when downloaded, yields a macOS Applescript which -- based on my quick scan -- crawls your filesystem in the background looking for files named "MetaMask", "BNB_Chain_Wallet" and similar files, and tells your browser to upload them to the mothership
Applescript: weird language or weirdest language?
December 12, 2023 at 1:41 AM
Applescript: weird language or weirdest language?
Applescript: the “human readable” programming language that’s ridiculously hard to use.
October 7, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Applescript: the “human readable” programming language that’s ridiculously hard to use.
applescript is so weird lmao
February 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
applescript is so weird lmao
i used to dunk on applescript and i'd like to think apple shortcuts is a cosmic punishment for that. can we have applescript back but for ios
May 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
i used to dunk on applescript and i'd like to think apple shortcuts is a cosmic punishment for that. can we have applescript back but for ios
Silicon Valley Little Free Library collections just hit different.
July 6, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Silicon Valley Little Free Library collections just hit different.
Posix
Applescript
Under-tested code
Leg day
Fortran
Really few comments
And no QA
Zig
Eepy
Ecmascript
Applescript
Under-tested code
Leg day
Fortran
Really few comments
And no QA
Zig
Eepy
Ecmascript
March 11, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Posix
Applescript
Under-tested code
Leg day
Fortran
Really few comments
And no QA
Zig
Eepy
Ecmascript
Applescript
Under-tested code
Leg day
Fortran
Really few comments
And no QA
Zig
Eepy
Ecmascript