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👢 Bootstrap your macOS development system.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2016-11-07 · latest 2024-03-03

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    Ask HN: How to Automate iPhone Setup?
    story by bartekpacia · 2024-03-03 · 1 comment
  2. …If you want a (excuse self-promotion) dedicated but simple tool to bootstrap new systems: check out https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2023-10-26 · in Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore
  3. I use Strap ( https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap ) to manage everything and it works pretty dang well for me on macOS. Homebrew brewfiles were a game-changer.
    comment by thisisbrians · 2022-05-26 · in Ask HN: How do you sync your computer’s development configurations/environment?
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    Bootstrap your macOS development system
    story by lrsjng · 2019-03-08 · 0 comments
  5. …bit. I keep my dotfiles in github and leverage homebrew for installing pretty much everything. [1]: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap
    comment by mstade · 2018-09-20 · in Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text
  6. Apologies for the self-plug but this is what I built for GitHub to do exactly this: https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap . Add Homebrew Bundle and a Dotfiles repo into the mix and you get what was described. This is obviously pretty…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2018-07-17 · in Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
  7. …ps://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle which will allow you to do a bunch of that in a single file. https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap and https://github.com/benbalter/plister may be of interest too.
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2017-09-26 · in MacOS High Sierra
  8. Homebrew + Strap is a winning combination. ( https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap ) But I do think that the various taps and casks and sprockets and bits are potentially getting out of hand. Homebrew 2.0 - New API and usage pattern?…
    comment by vr46 · 2017-05-01 · in Homebrew 1.2.0
  9. …set of software every OS X developer will want. http://mikemcquaid.com/2016/06/15/replacing-boxen/ https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap
    comment by akshatpradhan · 2017-02-19 · in Mac-dev-playbook – Mac setup and configuration via Ansible
  10. …setups might be gone. Boxen is deprecated in favour of the excellent Strap: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap which I have customized to use a post-completion script to configure defaults (e.g. https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotf
    comment by vr46 · 2017-02-19 · in Mac-dev-playbook – Mac setup and configuration via Ansible
  11. …macOS system with some sensible defaults and install Homebrew, your dotfiles and your Brewfile: https://github.com/mikemcquaid/strap Finally, if you're interested how I combined these to replace Boxen at GitHub (our macOS system/project…
    comment by mikemcquaid · 2016-11-07 · in Homebrew 1.1.0