Max Howell
Creator of Homebrew, the macOS package manager, and a Swift developer.
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Google turned down the author of Homebrew, software 90% of its engineers use, because he could not invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
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Google turned down the author of Homebrew, software 90% of its engineers use, because he could not invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
@mxcl on X Said 10 Jun 2015
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Uses LG 5K display
I don’t want the bulk of a 15" but have an LG 5K to plug in when I need real estate.
usesthis.com 25 Jun 2019
Uses Safari
I use Safari over Chrome because I’m an idiot. I believe Apple when they say it uses less battery
usesthis.com 25 Jun 2019
Loved Swift
For all my Swift dev, which for me is as much as possible. Swift is a great language.
usesthis.com 25 Jun 2019
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Mixed on Xcode
Xcode is too big and bloated, and often feels like it too.
usesthis.com 25 Jun 2019
Liked Steam Controller
I use a Steam Controller, which honestly is a really great choice for PC gaming that didn’t catch on and now Valve seem to have given up on it.
usesthis.com 25 Jun 2019
Loved TablePlus
I use TablePlus for database work. It’s very good.
usesthis.com 25 Jun 2019
Where they publish
Blog mxcl.dev His personal site.
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x.com @mxcl His X account.
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- Bleak. But also shows how IQ as a metric is pointless to apply to LLMs. They might be outpacing us at math and science but conjecture is beyond them. Is there an afterlife? Quite simply: we cannot know. Assuming to know the unknowable as fact shows a limitation in how they think. 15 Oct 2026
- lmfao 13 Oct 2026
- GitHub need to be replaced. 13 Oct 2026
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- I think what we all must accept at this point is that if you don't have distribution now: you'll never have it. Huge new supply means existing consumers get the ick about new things and fall back on what they know: the existing suppliers. 10 Oct 2026
- Devs realized months ago they can be 100x with AI tools. We are producing monuments to what software is capable of. Will mathematicians realize this? And if so… what will they make? 10 Oct 2026
- If you get upset when someone beats you at monopoly people look at you funny. 9 Oct 2026
- we call it: having a social life. 5 Oct 2026
- open source that doesn't remain open to external contribution will be replaced with “open open source—now twice as open” 5 Oct 2026
- A lovely new, native, fast, 2026-era mindset Git client being built in the open right now is https://t.co/xQRB1tHcqj. Super early. You found it here first. 5 Oct 2026
- Probably a good thing. Automic Vault is the complement to Apple’s controls here, being the equivalent sensible set of limits for the command line tool portion. 2 Oct 2026
- This is a pretty good idea tbh. Getting my agent right on it. 1 Oct 2026
- Due to AI-generated pull requests I have increased the amount of external PRs I am accepting. I am sincerely sorry for the increase in velocity and quality in my open source projects. 1 Oct 2026
- The solution is for people to maintain their own forks. Agents can merge upstream daily. The problems are: 1. GitHub has never considered forks to be worth “surfacing” to people visiting projects. 2. Apple demand a $100 tax for open source projects to bypass gatekeeper. The solution is possibly a new GitHub and Omarchy. But Omarchy needs codesigning in this new era. Proving providence of apps matters now. 1 Oct 2026
- BRB giving all my agents avatars and houses in Ultima 7. 1 Oct 2026
- I’m not sure who we should fear more. The AI will kill us all people or the THERE IS ZERO CHANCE AI WILL KILL US ALL. ZERO. people. Decision-making needs to be replaced by AI ASAP since we always seem to be ruled by morons who can only see things one way or another with nothing in-between. I'll take my chances with AI in control since it seems a miracle humans haven't destroyed ourselves since we invented nukes. 30 Sept 2026
- Depressing that even Postma is struggling with new stuff. 30 Sept 2026
- wtf is this shit 29 Sept 2026
- To achieve this at the command line use 29 Sept 2026 automicvault.com
- New in Package Manager Manager! Set the default text editor to an app you installed. Set all text formats! Stop Xcode stealing all file associations! Same for Terminals! 27 Sept 2026
- Taking a break from Automic Vault for a bit. It’s good now though. 25 Sept 2026
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GitHub mxcl His GitHub account, where Homebrew was first published.
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- knock-knock — Easy, GitHub sign-in, pre-hosted chat rooms for your GitHub repo 18 Oct 2026
- pkg.so — A Database for all Open Source Packages 17 Oct 2026
- mxcl.github.io 16 Oct 2026
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- homebrew-made 12 Oct 2026
- package-manager-manager — How many Packages would a Package Manager manage if a Package Manager could manage Package Managers? 12 Oct 2026
- AppUpdater — Automatically update open source macOS apps from GitHub releases. Full support for attestations. 7 Oct 2026
- encrypted-folder — Simple per file encryption for the contents of a folder 29 Sept 2026
- portal — Give your Mac a portal. 5 Sept 2026
- colossal-claw-adventure — Massively branching CYOA for humans and their agents 20 Aug 2026
- clawlicious — Feed your claw tasty links 17 Aug 2026
- git-cryobank — Archive Git repositories over SSH, browse them on the web, then safely Trash the local checkout 14 Jul 2026
- continuum — One chat channel. Quickly auto threaded based on content. Auto archived into web-safe forums. 12 Jun 2026
- YOLOKit — Getting square objects down round holes 3 Jun 2026
- xcodebuild — A continuously resilient `xcodebuild` “GitHub Action”. Also it’s the best. 3 Jun 2026
- UIInvertedImage — [UIImage invertedImage] 3 Jun 2026
- UIImageWithColor — [UIImage imageWithColor] 3 Jun 2026
- UIImageAverageColor — [UIImage averageColor] 3 Jun 2026
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