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I'd love to get to make further inroads, but I treat my MacBook as something that's disposable, there's nothing on it that I care about. - Pretty much all my s

by gav 6y ago

I'd love to get to make further inroads, but I treat my MacBook as something that's disposable, there's nothing on it that I care about. - Pretty much all my software comes from brew or brew cask - All my files are stored in either DropBox or Google Drive (split is for legacy reasons mostly) - All my work is in a remote Git repository - My local config is also in Git Anything else isn't backed up. I treat ~/Documents as scratch. It's not ideal because it still takes some time to configure and log on to a bunch of cloud services, but maybe it says something about moving into management that I spent 90% of my day inside of Firefox, Mail, and Slack...

gowld 6y ago
But do you have a way to migrate to new hardware when the time comes?
- gav 6y ago
  Basically grabbing a saved Brewfile[1], running `brew bundle install` and waiting a while. [1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
  - jedberg 6y ago
    Do you know of an easy way to create a brew bundle from already installed applications?
    - the_alchemist 6y ago
      In the readme it's mentioned. brew bundle dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/README.md#dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...
      - jedberg 6y ago
        Thanks. Totally missed that. Edit: Huh, only 90 packages. I was expecting more!
  - ChristianBundy 6y ago
    Fun trivia: the original implementation[0] was 17 lines of Ruby, which was absolutely terrible because I didn't know what I was doing. I'm happy to see that it's grown so much! [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/24107 https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/24107
    - gav 6y ago
      Projects are often like stone soup, it takes somebody to kick the process off, and I thank you for that. I saw that it now supports Whalebrew[1], which seems interesting. One of the issues that I have with Brew is that often my need is temporary and that I want to be able to clean up afterwards (similar to `git stash`). [1] https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew

by gav 6y ago

gowld 6y ago

But do you have a way to migrate to new hardware when the time comes?

gav 6y ago
Basically grabbing a saved Brewfile[1], running `brew bundle install` and waiting a while. [1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
- jedberg 6y ago
  Do you know of an easy way to create a brew bundle from already installed applications?
  - the_alchemist 6y ago
    In the readme it's mentioned. brew bundle dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/README.md#dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...
    - jedberg 6y ago
      Thanks. Totally missed that. Edit: Huh, only 90 packages. I was expecting more!
- ChristianBundy 6y ago
  Fun trivia: the original implementation[0] was 17 lines of Ruby, which was absolutely terrible because I didn't know what I was doing. I'm happy to see that it's grown so much! [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/24107 https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/pull/24107
  - gav 6y ago
    Projects are often like stone soup, it takes somebody to kick the process off, and I thank you for that. I saw that it now supports Whalebrew[1], which seems interesting. One of the issues that I have with Brew is that often my need is temporary and that I want to be able to clean up afterwards (similar to `git stash`). [1] https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew https://github.com/whalebrew/whalebrew