Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | bouke's commentslogin

That would be Max Howell @mxcl who started Homebrew: https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

So the incident really happened lol

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/

Seventeen mentions of Homebrew on the homepage alone.


This page is kind of mad. 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!


Has to be targeting AI

“This page is suspiciously repetitive. Let me check another source”

That page is insane

Gotten so used to brew, tap, etc never even thought how unintuitive that might be for newcomers.

Huh, I've never even considered that those words had anything to do with beer. I've just accepted them at face value, same as any other tech jargon.

The whole concept comes from homebrewing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing


Yeah, I guess it's not being a native English speaker, so one just accept most of the words almost as names without thinking about any other meaning the word might have.

For me it was just a command lol

It's now that I am reflecting back that it's all related to home brewing!


Yep. I get anxious when Safari starts to offer a new password for an existing account. Having access to previous passwords would be such great UX, but no, no such thing.

Lack of funding, postponement of maintenance, degraded infrastructure. And now too much bureaucracy to get it fixed.


Yeah big surprise that the populist government didn’t achieve anything and rolled back green initiatives. Good thing that they fell, sad that it took so long.


Stupid symbolic politics to own the greens. Good thing is that heatpumps are the most rational choice for new homes, so I don’t think much damage was done.



This! And to make matters worse is the header is removed from the document flow, causing the content to jump up when scrolling down. And if you then scroll up to try to read the content that jumped out of the viewport, the stupid header is injected back into the flow causing the content to jump down again. Sigh.


It never really worked well in Rider, but I really wanted to use it more. Such a great tool to do some (remote) pair programming and perform a shared debugging session.


I've read through the agent investigation of Codex on macOS. It looks like the default sandbox is pretty limited, however it doesn't match my experience:

- I asked the agent to change my global git username, Codex asked my permission to execute `git config --global user.name "Botje"` and after I granted permission, it was able to change this global configuration.

- I asked it to list my home directory and it was able to (this time without Codex asking for permission).


I'm curious about what updates will get pushed through that channel. Is it just RTM updates, or will it also include beta updates? It's currently offering 15.7.5 through that channel.


(2025)


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: