Not necessarily all open source, homebrew-cask has been merged into brew and you have e.g. Jetbrains IDEs and Zoom available.
Personally I use homebrew-cask to manage almost all applications and their updates, turning auto-updating off in almost all apps. That way I am in control and can update when it is convenient, know if an update broke something, etc.
Edit, using:
- https://github.com/buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
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homebrew-bundle
OPEN SOURCE2016–2026
Homebrew / homebrew-bundle · Archived
homebrew-bundle
💀 Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew)
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25Mentions
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Homebrew/bundle (merged into Homebrew/brew)
This tap provided Bundler for non-Ruby dependencies from e.g. Homebrew, Homebrew Cask, Mac App Store and Visual Studio Code. It has been entirely merged into Homebrew/brew. brew bundle still works as before, it just isn't in this tap any more.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
4 sourcesAsk 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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In the readme it's mentioned.
brew bundle dump
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...
In Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systemsBasically grabbing a saved Brewfile[1], running `brew bundle install` and waiting a while.
[1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
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