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Directory specific tools (versioned if necessary) that are managed in declarative fashion is great. I use Brewfile too. Still prefer some stuff to be managed by brew. For example the browsers, App Store apps (managed via mas[1]) [1] https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Brew Casks are quite different from the App Store, but there is a CLI for the App Store if you want that: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Without going too far down the rabbit hole, it looks like the maintainers added it in 2023. In the process, I was reminded that the installer initially required Ruby! (/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl…) FYI, mas is the equivalent of a package manager for macOS apps (a.k.a. a CLI for App Store). https://github.com/mas-cli/mas Other than brew, I use mise for everything I can. https://mise.jdx.dev/

macOS has a graphical AppStore but no easy way to run an update from command line. There's third-party project - mas[1] but it's limited by Apple constantly changing APIs. [1] https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

One cute trick I've found is that you can install mas[0] (mac app store cli) and then have mas install things from the app store for you[1]. also, at least some system prefs can be set via the defaults util[2]. [0]: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas [1]: https://github.com/stephen/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh#L... [2]: https://github.com/stephen/dotfiles/blob/master/install.sh#L...

I'm pretty sure mas-cli [https://github.com/mas-cli/mas] is abandonware. It hasn't received any meaningful updates in almost 2 years and most of its features are broken

It reminds of seemingly abandoned "mas"[1] tool that allows using command line to install and update applications without launching AppStore. [1] https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

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

This can be done using the mas-cli. It's not official, but works decently well. https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Not from Apple, but there's mas: https://github.com/mas-cli/mas

Note, however, that if[1], and apparently only if[2], you’ve downloaded Sierra from the App Store in the past, you can install https://github.com/mas-cli/mas and then use the command mas install 1127487414 to download the latest Sierra installer from the App Store. [1] It worked for me. [2] Or so I’ve heard.

Have a look at mas (https://github.com/mas-cli/mas) for automated Mac App Store manipulation from the command line.