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Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ y

by hk__2 4mo ago

Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new features! Thank you for everything!

mikemcquaid 4mo ago
17 in September. Thanks for all your great work at the time! Hope you’re well <3
- Kevcmk 4mo ago
  Goat
- alexgyurov 4mo ago
  Thank you!
- trueno 4mo ago
  just updated to 6.0.0. already loving `brew trust <tap>` thank you for all the years of work! practically a required macos experience for me these days! as far as cli utilities go the ux of homebrew has always been so easy to use, honestly kind of a personal benchmark for me on how repeatedly approachable it is, all commands are for whatever reason so painless to remember. i remember when apple silicon dropped and you guys followed shortly with support and the ability to switch arches, like really killer stuff so impressed with homebrew! always a treat when something im interested in tinkering with has a homebrew formula available
- cavneb 4mo ago
  Thank you Mike!
- colemannerd 4mo ago
  Thank you mike!
- thewhitetulip 4mo ago
  At the off chance that you'll see and reply to my message, I have a question I saw a tweet by someone many years ago before I knew Homebrew was a thing. The tweet basically said "Google rejected me for not being able to invert a binary tree when 80% of Google engg use Homebrew" Was that true?
  - bouke 4mo ago
    That would be Max Howell @mxcl who started Homebrew: https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
    - thewhitetulip 4mo ago
      So the incident really happened lol
      - latexr 4mo ago
        Ostensibly it did. But worth noting that despite many people still thinking of Max Howell when they think of Homebrew, he hasn’t been there for a long long time. Pretty sure he wasn’t there at the time of that Google interview, even. Mike and all the other contributors deserve much more credit for Homebrew. There are even contributors who since left who were there for longer and had a bigger impact than Max. And he had nothing to do with the Cask part. Unfortunately, Max still clings to having created Homebrew as his greatest achievement, despite being so uninvolved for so long that just about the only thing that remains of his is the name and the beer nomenclature often confusing for newcomers. Since then, he’s been aggressively chasing whatever is popular at the time. When blockchain was all the rage, the made a package manager that leveraged it. Now he’s into AI stuff. But always, still at the top of his website and plastered everywhere whenever he pursues a project, he mentions he created Homebrew. https://mxcl.dev/ https://mxcl.dev/ Seventeen mentions of Homebrew on the homepage alone.
        leoedin 4mo ago
        This page is kind of mad. https://mxcl.dev/homebrew/ https://mxcl.dev/homebrew/ So much repetition. I'm guessing it's targeting AI training sets? The guy really wants you to know he created Homebrew!
- kofj 4mo ago
  thank you mike
maxloh 4mo ago
Homebrew is so good that I use it on Linux whenever possible. Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. This makes cleaning up your workstation nearly impossible and a pain in the ass, since you can't tell what should be removed, or more importantly, what can be removed. Also, most native package managers update much slower than Homebrew, meaning you often only get outdated packages.
- pram 4mo ago
  Yep homebrew on an LTS distro is pro.
- Washuu 4mo ago
  > Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. And because of pinning versions to LTS releases on certain Linux distributions many times those packages stay out of date for years. Which is quite annoying.
  - xenophonf 4mo ago
    > quite annoying It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.
    - happyopossum 4mo ago
      Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...
      - xmprt 4mo ago
        LTS still typically get security updates. That's what the support in long term support means.
        moskimus 4mo ago
chrisss395 4mo ago
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by hk__2 4mo ago

mikemcquaid 4mo ago

17 in September. Thanks for all your great work at the time! Hope you’re well <3

Kevcmk 4mo ago
Goat
alexgyurov 4mo ago
Thank you!
trueno 4mo ago
just updated to 6.0.0. already loving `brew trust <tap>` thank you for all the years of work! practically a required macos experience for me these days! as far as cli utilities go the ux of homebrew has always been so easy to use, honestly kind of a personal benchmark for me on how repeatedly approachable it is, all commands are for whatever reason so painless to remember. i remember when apple silicon dropped and you guys followed shortly with support and the ability to switch arches, like really killer stuff so impressed with homebrew! always a treat when something im interested in tinkering with has a homebrew formula available
cavneb 4mo ago
Thank you Mike!
colemannerd 4mo ago
Thank you mike!
thewhitetulip 4mo ago
At the off chance that you'll see and reply to my message, I have a question I saw a tweet by someone many years ago before I knew Homebrew was a thing. The tweet basically said "Google rejected me for not being able to invert a binary tree when 80% of Google engg use Homebrew" Was that true?
- bouke 4mo ago
  That would be Max Howell @mxcl who started Homebrew: https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
  - thewhitetulip 4mo ago
    So the incident really happened lol
    - latexr 4mo ago
      Ostensibly it did. But worth noting that despite many people still thinking of Max Howell when they think of Homebrew, he hasn’t been there for a long long time. Pretty sure he wasn’t there at the time of that Google interview, even. Mike and all the other contributors deserve much more credit for Homebrew. There are even contributors who since left who were there for longer and had a bigger impact than Max. And he had nothing to do with the Cask part. Unfortunately, Max still clings to having created Homebrew as his greatest achievement, despite being so uninvolved for so long that just about the only thing that remains of his is the name and the beer nomenclature often confusing for newcomers. Since then, he’s been aggressively chasing whatever is popular at the time. When blockchain was all the rage, the made a package manager that leveraged it. Now he’s into AI stuff. But always, still at the top of his website and plastered everywhere whenever he pursues a project, he mentions he created Homebrew. https://mxcl.dev/ https://mxcl.dev/ Seventeen mentions of Homebrew on the homepage alone.
      - leoedin 4mo ago
        This page is kind of mad. https://mxcl.dev/homebrew/ https://mxcl.dev/homebrew/ So much repetition. I'm guessing it's targeting AI training sets? The guy really wants you to know he created Homebrew!
kofj 4mo ago
thank you mike

maxloh 4mo ago

Homebrew is so good that I use it on Linux whenever possible. Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. This makes cleaning up your workstation nearly impossible and a pain in the ass, since you can't tell what should be removed, or more importantly, what can be removed. Also, most native package managers update much slower than Homebrew, meaning you often only get outdated packages.

pram 4mo ago
Yep homebrew on an LTS distro is pro.
Washuu 4mo ago
> Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. And because of pinning versions to LTS releases on certain Linux distributions many times those packages stay out of date for years. Which is quite annoying.
- xenophonf 4mo ago
  > quite annoying It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.
  - happyopossum 4mo ago
    Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...
    - xmprt 4mo ago
      LTS still typically get security updates. That's what the support in long term support means.
      - moskimus 4mo ago

chrisss395 4mo ago

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