I don't know why this bugs me, but from the article: "(Aside: The hard bit may be getting a new enough SQLite, at the time of writing Homebrew on macOS has it,

I don't know why this bugs me, but from the article: "(Aside: The hard bit may be getting a new enough SQLite, at the time of writing Homebrew on macOS has it, else you likely need to use an unstable source like nixpkgs-unstable.)" I feel like the obvious answer is to just get the stable, released source from the SQLite web site and build it yourself.