tailcat: SSH-like remote commands over Tailscale

A new tool called tailcat lets you run commands on remote Tailscale machines the way you'd use SSH — but without the key management headache. You fire off something like tailcat machine-name command and it hits the Tailscale control plane to get the right endpoint and tunnels the connection. The whole thing is open source and sits at github.com/tailscale/tailcat.

The value is practical: teams that already use Tailscale for private networking can skip the SSH server setup, the authorized_keys dance, and the port-forwarding tricks. You're just talking to machines you already know about. For the cousin who runs a small web shop with three VPS boxes and a home lab, this is the kind of tool that saves an hour of troubleshooting every other week — the kind of thing that ends up in dotfiles and stays there.

Why this matters for us: la gente who are already juggling private networks for their side businesses and family servers need tools that respect that setup instead of forcing a whole new system on top of it.