Tools for 2025

There is no way out of traditional UNIX shells, because most folks don't control the servers, and getting snowflake shells being adopted across the company and customers hardly works.

Also there are many UNIX deployments, where bash still isn't a given, one might be surprised with tsch or ksh.

First I've heard about issue with bash.

I've been using OhMyZsh in all terminals for years which seems pretty active and auto updates fine where ever I'm using, e.g in Linux, macOS, Windows/WSL. Zsh might have a slower release cadence but I'm really happy with my with Oh My Zsh setup and don't feel like I'm missing anything.

The one area where I've stopped using bash/shell is in complex shell scripts which I'm now writing in TypeScript and executing with Bun by using: #! /usr/bin/env bun

I really do like these kinds of posts. I like the author’s passion. Will check oils, radicle, and simplex out. Though I think getting my wife to try simplex over iMessage is unlikely to happen hah

Thanks for the great write-up—Radicle and Simplex Chat look awesome, and I’m looking forward to checking them out!

One tool that recently gave me that "this is how it should work feeling" was Flighty (iOS flight tracking). The UI, functionality, and flow felt so seamless—it was like music to my technophile ears. I wasn't even expecting much, because it was like "meh, its a flight tracker." But, it really wowed me.

I always justify my tool obsession by saying that after installing thousands of tools and apps, you become a naturally good product manager. Because you have a high bar for quality and during the planning/mockup phase you have lots of patterns in your head of what great looks like.

>oils

Nah. Bash is well-maintained, you can have a bug fixed quickly. It's been months since I reported this <https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/issues/2068> and still nothing.