Formula Cookbook

Publish custom OCaml Homebrew taps with a simple GitHub workflow.

Overview Homebrew distribution lets users install your Python CLI with brew install your-tool. The process: create a GitHub "tap" repository, generate a Ruby formula file, test it, and publish. Prerequisites Your package must be on PyPI with an sdist (source distribution), not …

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ZaDark is an extension that helps you enable Dark Mode for Zalo PC and Web. ZaDark is available on Windows, macOS, Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox. - ncdai/zadark

🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) - Homebrew/homebrew-core

🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) - Homebrew/brew

Last week I finally released the first version of espanso, a cross-platform, system-wide Text Expander written in Rust.

Tutorial for creating MacOS Homebrew Casks for software originally intended for Windows only. This example will show how I created a MacOS wrapper for car diagnostics software FORScan. You will learn how to automate the process of running Windows apps on macOS with Wine integration and USB device handling.

This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation: Homebrew/actions: a repository of custom GitHub Actions used […]

So today, I raised a GitHub issue because after I had opened the result of dotnet new mvc in VSCode the problems window would have approximately 120 issues and the code editor window would be full of red squiggles.

Has this ever happened to you? You’re writing a project in Ruby, JavaScript, Go, etc., and you have to build a dependency that uses a system …

Create OS install packages from your Go release with goreleaser

As software developers, having our projects available easily to anyone is a goal, but it can be hard to achieve. Using package managers like apt, pacman or brew has become an industry standard (compared to wget + compile it yourself + install it), but publishing a project on it can be quite tedious.\nIn this article, we will go through the basics of creating a tap for homebrew (available on both Linux and MacOS).\n

How To Brew🍺 Homebrew is an excellent package manager for macOS and even Linux that I use daily, so I’m going to take a deep-dive today and give a high-level overview of Homebrew from the perspective of a sysadmin. I’ve worked with a lot of engineers who understand brew install and maybe even brew upgrade, but not much past that. This post covers day-to-day usage and how to brew responsibly. Regularly, I run brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup so my tools stay current and my disk doesn’t fill up with stale artifacts.

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How to maintain a third-party Homebrew repository (tap) with binary packages (bottles) on Linux (with Docker) and older macOS versions (with VirtualBox)

Instead of using the built-in package manager in Linux or some container that never puts the programs files in a usable spot, we will use Homebrew!