It’s been established that we programmers love our keyboards. Seriously, the more I can use the keyboard and the less I can use my mouse, the better.

As we continue to blur the lines with web and desktop application navigation with tools like Vimium, I look forward to being able to perform more and more console-like operations within the browser.

Tools like jQuery Shell continue to make the browser a more comfortable environment.

jQuery Shell is a Chrome Extension that allows you to execute jQuery-based JavaScript within the context of the given page.

After playing with it for a while, I’d say that one of the nicest features is the ability to reload the current page without losing the code you’re attempting to execute – this makes attaching event listeners whenever the DOM is ready a breeze.

It’s also got basic error reporting, the ability to page through previous blocks of code, and to repeatedly execute whatever you’ve entered into the console.