Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors(discourse.brew.sh)
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Thanks Homebrew maintainers and contributors
https://discourse.brew.sh/t/thanks-to-all-the-maintainers-and-contributors/1334
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I'm kind of an outlier when it comes to development, but I really hate using OSX. One thing that makes it bearable for me (I have a mac at work), however, is that I can get exactly what I want with very little hastle using homebrew. I would like to add to this sentiment, on this turkey day, homebrew has my thanks.
Seconding homebrew being the one of the few things that makes using OS X bearable. Pqrs also gets my turkey day thanks for making Karabiner, which is another one of those things.
What exactly makes you hate MacOS?
Usability feels like a second hand citizen to me, when it comes to things like window management / snapping. I come from a very windows-heavy background, so I appreciate the shell experience provided by OSX, but really hate the ear-flicks of trying to use multiple apps simultaneously, and snapping between them, positioning them, etc, in an OSX world.
To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.
To be fair, this could be a training / learn-ability issue that may not be present had I learned OSX first.
You just buy Moom and problem solved. https://manytricks.com/moom/
I see where you're coming from.
Hell, I remember using Linux 15 years ago and having better space management than I have in MacOS today. I honestly hate how they nerfed spaces and made it much harder to work with many applications, or on many projects.
Just give me project contexts, dammit!
Windows is just as bad, if not worse these days though.
Hell, I remember using Linux 15 years ago and having better space management than I have in MacOS today. I honestly hate how they nerfed spaces and made it much harder to work with many applications, or on many projects.
Just give me project contexts, dammit!
Windows is just as bad, if not worse these days though.
It can have strange behavior though.
The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it.
This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu.
That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.
The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it.
This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu.
That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.
Your Xcode project directory probably had spaces in its path somewhere (which, for reasons of rather outdated conventions, is less common to encounter under Linux.)
Like with any other Unix, dealing with spaces in the arguments passing through a pipeline to xargs(1) requires the NUL-delimited style:
Like with any other Unix, dealing with spaces in the arguments passing through a pipeline to xargs(1) requires the NUL-delimited style:
find . -print0 | xargs -0 grep abcd
find . -exec grep abcd \{\} \;
grep -R abcd .My iTerm2 disappeared in the upgrade to High Sierra.
I don't know why.
I started to use the standard terminal and found it much more responsive that iTerm2. I never used most of the iTerm2 features anyway.
I'm sticking to the standard terminal for the time being.
I started to use the standard terminal and found it much more responsive that iTerm2. I never used most of the iTerm2 features anyway.
I'm sticking to the standard terminal for the time being.
Thanks for linking to this thanks. And thanks, Homebrew team, for Homebrew. It has saved me countless of hours.
Curious, does homebrew really has "millions of users"?
Looking at their analytics[1] a few million seems plausible depending on how updates are included in the numbers.
[1] https://brew.sh/analytics/
[1] https://brew.sh/analytics/
Is there some documentation on how to contribute?
There's a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the repo. Documentation is a little sparse, however. This is a useful reference: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/brew/Homebrew
Reading formulas of other software is useful too.
Reading formulas of other software is useful too.
https://docs.brew.sh/ has all the details. Reach out on the forums if you run into blockers.
After Docker, I use Homebrew only to install basic tools like git.
Why install git from Homebrew? Git is included in macOS. Sometimes the Apple version of a program is outdated or just different but macOS Sierra has git version 2.13.6, less than six months old.
Installing it from homebrew requires minimal effort and can keep you more up-to-date than the system version. It requires more effort to figure out that the included version is "only" half a year old than to just install a newer version from homebrew.