Rodney Rehm

It's become a custom amongst web developers to write »you may not need $insert_tool« posts. Continuing with that tradition, here's my stab at why you might not need localtunnel.me and ngrok.com.

Running a couple of scripts in a row is no problem for Bash, but running them in parallel is more tricky. It gets even more ridiculous when on script needs to reach a certain state before another can start. This post illustrates how I solved this work using AppleScript.

Shell scripts (often referred to bash scripting, even though it's not necessarily bash) are a great way to automate certain things. Every now and then those scripts have to be run with privileges - in order to, say, register a network interface alias or bind a low-port.

The MacPorts update I ran a couple of weeks ago caused my git to upgrade to 1.7.10.2 - and switch from English to German. The workaround to make git speak English again while not chaning the locale of the entire system is rather trivial. But since I'm terrible at remembering that sort of stuff, documenting it might help with the next update… ☺