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Adam and Wynn caught up with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew to talk about package managment on OSX, beer, and scrobbling.

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Featuring:

• Max Howell – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

• Homebrew The awesome OSX package manager from Max Howell
• Last.fm - The world’s largest online music catalogue, powered by your scrobbles. Max’s former employer.
• Tweet Deck Desktop and mobile Twitter client
• ImageMagick - fabulous software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images which can be a pain to install on OSX.
• Amarok - is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix
• GitHub - where all the cool people put code
• Homebrew terms in the Homebrew Cookbook
• No sudo for you and the dangers therein
• MacPorts - an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system
• Gentoo - highly optimized Linux distro
• Most forked projects on GitHub
• Max prefers British ales
• pengwynn is looking to get his hands on the Tatical Nuclear Penguin from Brewdog
• The Silicon roundabout gets its name due to the prominence of British web based companies
• Max created the Last.fm Scrobbler, proving open source can land you a job
• Transmission is beautiful on the Mac
• Glasses, This is the next generation of VLC for Mac also called Lunettes.
• brew install sl, then sl — enjoy the ride!

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!