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New comment by PufPufPuf in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

PufPufPuf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:48:17 +0000

The "beer drinking simulator" we all had on our phones in 2010 wasn't a very accurate representation of drinking beer either

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Beagle: Git, URIs and all the dirty words"

PufPufPuf — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:26:52 +0000

That seems unnecessarily cryptic -- the whole HTTP analogy doesn't really work well, or the article doesn't do a good job of explaining it. I know, I come from a place of knowing git and beginners are often confused by it... but surely "checkout a branch, make a commit" has a clearer mental model than "post ?branch!", whatever that is supposed to mean.

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:11:07 +0000

Mise has two ways of running tools: the default one is ad-hoc PATH modifications, but there's also a shim folder you can add to PATH globally. If you mean the Claude desktop app or IDE plugin, the shim option is usually required, just edit the PATH the app is using (or the system-wide one).

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:26:15 +0000

We're discussing Homebrew now, which includes discussing alternatives, and I'm telling my story of switching to a tool that I found better for my purposes. I'm not affiliated or anything. I agree this comment would be weird e.g. on the official Homebrew blog.

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:15:56 +0000

Mise now has lockfiles as a stable feature, which has the benefit of hash checking if you use Mise in a CI environment!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:00:51 +0000

For system-wide things I usually use "latest" but it's nice being able to downgrade and/or stick to a working version using lockfiles. I remember back when I used Homebrew, Teleport shipped a bug that prevented me from accessing our servers and downgrading was a pain.

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:53:56 +0000

I've been using it lightly as a "better nvm" for a longer time, but only switched to it as a primary "tool installer" a few months ago. I've seen it improve quite a lot over the time, you could give it another try!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:46:12 +0000

FWIW you can replace pngpaste with a simple script: https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/impaste

Zbar seems to provide prebuilt binaries here https://linuxtv.org/downloads/zbar/binaries/ (haven't checked it myself)

Thanks for the docker tip!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:03:40 +0000

I looked around and found this fun project -- basically "Arch Linux in userspace on top of any other Linux": https://github.com/fsquillace/junest

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:27:51 +0000

Haven't had any serious problems so far!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:19:07 +0000

Exclusively? No, the very first option is the install script, which downloads and unpacks the correct binary for your OS from the Mise website:

curl https://mise.run | sh

...which is the same way Homebrew is installed too.

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:15:56 +0000

Thank you for making Mise!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:17:07 +0000

Here's my modest collection of global tools I install in my dotfiles: https://github.com/JanPokorny/dotfiles/blob/master/dot_confi...

Projects then have their own dependencies, e.g. https://github.com/i-am-bee/agentstack/blob/main/mise.toml

Mise also has a task runner which automatically uses correct tools. Onboarding a new team member is super easy now, they just need Mise, "mise install" and they're up.

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:13:31 +0000

Nope, still rolling. Have a look at https://mise.jdx.dev/ if you need exact versions

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:12:31 +0000

Mise is also cross-platform, we actually use it at work for projects we develop locally on macOS, then build in CI on Linux -- it even supports multiplatform lockfiles. I had a few tries with Nix but it's a lot to wrap your head around, Mise is simple to "just try".

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:10:24 +0000

I'm in the "switched most to Mise" stage, might look into MacPorts for the remaining stuff, thanks for the tip!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:08:27 +0000

Have a look at https://mise.jdx.dev/, it's exactly what you're looking for!

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:06:02 +0000

The concept of a "userspace package manager" is something I would expect Linux to have figured out twenty years ago. It's ridiculous that the usual situation for non-root users is "you can't install XY but feel free to build from source". Homebrew, Mise and Nix are filling that hole now. (Flatpak is more oriented towards GUI apps, and Snap... exists.)

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:56:26 +0000

Mise installs itself as a static binary actually (but it's of course packaged in many registries), and while there are some third party registries it delegates to for some packages (aqua, asfd), most stuff I have installed is either built-in, or from PyPI, npm or GitHub, i.e. directly published by the upstream maintainers. More info: https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/backends/

New comment by PufPufPuf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

PufPufPuf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:47:25 +0000

That's only for upstream packages, i.e. what the CI pulls in when building bottles. Homebrew itself is a rolling package manager, essentially only supporting the "latest" version for each package, which doesn't work well with the usual "only install packages older than X" concept.