Bad AppleScript: Safari and curling URLs

I was listening to some podcasters I respect arguing about nuances in software development the other day, and thought to myself: I have no idea what these guys are talking about.

The pinnacle of my programming career was being asked to be one of the people on my high school’s team at some sort of programming contest. I only knew Applesoft BASIC, and half the problems required a more advanced language than that. Thus ended my life as a coder.

But thanks to Apple’s scripting language, AppleScript, I am just powerful enough to be dangerous. I have written many bad AppleScripts in my day. I will probably write many more.

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