How Shazbot, a native macOS menu bar SSH tunnel manager, works without an ssh subprocess, and what the App Sandbox costs.
Building a Sandboxed SSH Tunnel Manager — Zardecki.dev Zardecki.dev Shazbot Tiny Elvis Blog Support Privacy ← Back to the blog Building a sandboxed SSH tunnel manager for the Mac menu bar I run SSH tunnels constantly. ssh -L is easy until you have a dozen of them and can't remember which host and port goes with which. I wanted a small menu bar app that remembers them for me. Everything I found was either subscription-priced or free but clunky and neglected, so I built my own. The first version took an evening of vibe coding with Claude Code. It was simple, just a wrapper around /usr/bin/ssh .
How Shazbot, a native macOS menu bar SSH tunnel manager, works without an ssh subprocess, and what the App Sandbox costs.
Building a Sandboxed SSH Tunnel Manager — Zardecki.dev Zardecki.dev Shazbot Tiny Elvis Blog Support Privacy ← Back to the blog Building a sandboxed SSH tunnel manager for the Mac menu bar I run SSH tunnels constantly. ssh -L is easy until you have a dozen of them and can't remember which host and port goes with which. I wanted a small menu bar app that remembers them for me. Everything I found was either subscription-priced or free but clunky and neglected, so I built my own. The first version took an evening of vibe coding with Claude Code. It was simple, just a wrapper around /usr/bin/ssh .
