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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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Useful patterns for building HTML tools - 10th December 2025
Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek - 9th December 2025
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