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homebrew. Exciting alternative to MacPorts for compiling software on OS X—homebrew avoids sudo and defines packages as simple Ruby scripts, shared and distributed using Git.

Posted 21st September 2009 at 6:51 pm

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My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs - 11th January 2026
Fly's new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time - 9th January 2026
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