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• Ask HN: Developer PC setup automations for company owned devices
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2024

  Similar here.

  More than onboarding, there is also the question of changing your laptop, and having to setup everything again.

  Some pieces of software that help:

  - Humble bundle (https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-bundle) with a `Brewfile` stored in git and shared;

• How do you setup a new Mac?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2024

  I maintain a Brewfile (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle) which contains the majority of the non-project specific applications that I like to install on any new Mac:

  https://github.com/jonahgeorge/dotfiles/tree/main

  What's really nice is the `cask` & `mas` keywords allow you to install .dmg files & directly from the App Store.

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  While its not included in there yet, I've been experimenting with maintaining a private Homebrew tap which contains my ~/bin directory as opposed to shell aliases.

• Pkgx – “Run Anything” from the creator of brew
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Oct 2023

  > It's strange that people are so against declarative systems, or even file-based OS configuration. When I get my new Macbook I was up-and-running within a few minutes. I can't imagine maintaining a list of brews I need to re-install just to set up everything + my configs + everything else.

  I haven’t had time to try Nix yet, but HomeBrew does have a declarative-ish workflow that I’ve been using for years:

  [Brew Bundle](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle) let’s you have a plaintext file listing all packages you want installed on your system. Add a line for stuff you want installed, delete a line for stuff you want removed, invoke it the right way and it will install/remove packages until your system matches the list. The initial list can be generated by “brew bundle dump” or something like that.

  For configuration, I find that a normal dotfile repo cloned into my ~/.config (with a script that maintains symlinks to config files in e.g. ~/Library) works well enough for my use.

• Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023

  Brew supports dumping installed things into a brewfile: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle

  I was using text files before as well to manage it.

• Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Aug 2023

  Assuming everyone's on a Mac, I'm actually surprised there isn't that much use of something like homebrew-bundle[1]. It's definitely nicer to have your tooling run natively rather than, say, trying to wrap everything in Docker, or trying to get everybody on board with nix or guix.

  I think the only real issue here is that you can't really pin to specific versions unless a formula exists, and there is no guarantee that a formula with a pinned version will stick around because homebrew likes to stay lean.

  [1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/

• Brew Bundle
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2023
• The new Obsidian icon
  2 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 2 Jun 2023
• Which apps do you install first on any new Mac?
  10 projects | /r/MacOS | 20 May 2023

  You should checkout Homebrew bundle and create a Brewfile instead. That will let you install both stuff from brew, casks and Mac AppStore apps in one go.

• macOS users: you can now install Active Trader Pro with Homebrew!
  2 projects | /r/fidelityinvestments | 22 Apr 2023

  If you use brew bundle and create your own Brewfile, you can store this with your personal dot files and automate bootstrapping (auto-installing all your system tools) a new or recently reformatted Mac by including auto-trader-pro in your Brewfile.

• 2 Days ago I made a comment saying I would quit photography before buying an Apple for photo editing. I'm sorry, be gentle
  3 projects | /r/macbookpro | 27 Mar 2023

  And if you're already loving Homebrew, definitely check out Homebrew Bundle!

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