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mac-dev-playbook
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mac-dev-playbook

Mac setup and configuration via Ansible.

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What it is

Mac setup and configuration via Ansible.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Nice - i learned few tricks from there. for the mac setup, I have been using this for years and works well for me. https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year21 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-03-11 13:30:36 UTC to 2025-05-30 10:35:06 UTC.

0123452014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 3 submissions, 2 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC532
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422

What Hacker News says

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anubhavcodes·Jul 16, 2020Submission

Ask HN: How do you sync apps and settings across multiple machines

What do you use to sync apps/settings etc across multiple devices (Mac and/or Linux)? When I was using linux I used Stow [1] to manage my dotfiles and configs. When I moved to Mac, I started maintaining a Brewfile under my dotfiles repository [2], with a combinations of homebrew [3], homebrew-bundle [4], mas [5] and whalebrew [6] that installs all the apps (cli, native apps, docker images, app store etc) I still have to install homebrew in the beginning and login to iCloud but this setup works. I still have to setup each app individually. I also tried Ansible and @geerlingguy fantastic Mac setup Ansible playbook [6], but I was not able to automate the process as I needed to have python3 and ansible setup correctly in my system first. I would like to know what workflow do other hackers use to quickly setup new machines and make them produc
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tive right away. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ [2] https://github.com/anubhavcodes/dotfiles/blob/master/Brewfile [3] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew [4] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle [5] https://github.com/mas-cli/mas [6] https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook
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