Homebrew Recommendations
This page contains interesting Homebrew formulae I have installed.
- angband
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The classic dungeon-exploration game based on The Lord of the Rings.
Not much more to say.
- asciiquarium
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Displays an acsii aquarium animation in your terminal window.
Very nice as a screensaver for monitors that are not in use.
- cairo
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Useful library for drawing vector graphics. Cross-platform support.
- calc
- Command-line calculator. Support arbitrary precision.
- ccrypt
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Command-line utility for encryption and decryption.
- cmatrix
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Displays terminal raindrops in the style of The Matrix. Neat.
Somehow manages to segfault at times.
- cowsay
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Makes an ascii cow deliver terminal output.
Provides several options for more interesting characters to state
output as well.
- doxygen
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Fully-featured tool for automatically documenting C/C++ code.
Features exportable output to LaTeX, HTML, and more.
- figlet
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Displays terminal output in big blocky ascii-art letters.
Great for splash screens.
- fortune
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Delivers a random (hopefully interesting) adage upon invocation.
- gmp
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Useful multiple-precision arithmetic library.
- hh
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Suggestion box for Bash and zsh history.
- htop
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Interactive process viewer with more features than basic
top.
- imgcat
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"Like
cat, but for images."
Really just prints pictures in your terminal.
- latex2html
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Great tool for converting LaTeX documents to well-formatted HTML.
- latex2rtf
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Like latex2html, but converts LaTeX to RTF instead.
- links
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Fork of
lynx which supports tables and menus.
- lolcat
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Converts terminal output into rainbow colors.
- lynx
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Terminal-based web browser. Surprisingly functional.
- ncdu
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View your disk usage using ncurses.
- ncurses
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UI library specifically for text and terminal.
Comes bundled with MacOS.
- nethack
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A great roguelike and time waster. Lots of content and strategy.
- nettle
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A small low-level crypto library.
- nyancat
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It's nyancat in terminal form.
- oniguruma
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Solid regex library.
- pandoc
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Fully-featured document format converter. Can convert nearly any
format to nearly any other format.
- pixman
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Library for single-pixel manipulation.
- sfml
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Cross-platform simple media library. Excellent resources available
online as well.
- stone-soup
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, a deep roguelike with a lot of playstyles.
- the_silver_searcher
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Highly functional code searcher, similar to ack.
- thefuck
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Command-line tool for correcting your previous commands.
Surprisingly, extremely useful.
- tig
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Text UI for viewing Git information. A great alternative to
git log --graph.
- tmux
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A terminal multiplexer. Vital if you are the kind of person who
posts screenshots of your desktop on Cambodian basket manufacturing
imageboards.
- tree
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Displays the contents of a directory in tree format inside the
terminal.
- unrar
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Command-line tool for extracting compressed archive formats.
- valgrind
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The classic memory analysis tool for debugging and profiling.
- youtube-dl
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Downloads YouTube videos from command line.
- zsh
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An excellent UNIX shell command interpreter.
- zsh-completions
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Defines additional completions for zsh. Useful if you're using zsh,
useless otherwise.
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