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Jessica Wang

Share Brewfiles - See what tech stack other developers are using

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Run a quick CLI command to upload your Brewfile packages to our site. Then, check out other developers' packages, see our leaderboard to discover top tools, and have some fun generating your very own dev personality type to share with your friends!

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Jessica Wang
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Hey PH community, My career can be tracked by the packages we’ve downloaded. In university, I downloaded frameworks like Python, Node.js, and Java. Upon graduating, Monokai Pro and Dracula made their way into my VSCode themes, Droid Sans Mono became my default Nerd Font, and I used Starship and Oh-My-Posh to customize my terminal prompt. Over the years, I’ve experimented with more tools like Github Copilot, firebase-explorer, LazyGit, ffmpeg, neovim, and much more. What tools we download tell the story of who we are as developers, but right now, there isn’t an easy way to share it out. Once in a while we may tweet or blog about it, but even still it’s usually just a list of 5-10 already-popular tools when our actual list usually includes 30+ packages. It’s also not easy to update this list as we continue to experiment with new things. www.brewfiles.com tries to address some of these pain points. Here’s what we built: – A personalized Brewfile page that is easily shared and just requires one CLI command to be updated whenever you want. – Generates a developer personality profile based off the packages in your Brewfile, really fun to share with friends & social media. – A leaderboard that lets you see what’s popular overall and discover new tools. – Search that allows you to search by package or username so you can stalk other developers’ Brewfiles. Few more things - First, this project is 100% open source. Second, I want to give a huge thank you to Warp (the company I work at) for encouraging me to build this tool and contribute to the developer community in a fun and educational way. Let’s make sharing out our packages more fun and social, while also providing opportunities to educate other developers on what tools might help their productivity. Please give the tool a try and let us know your feedback!
Stefans Keiss
Brewfiles sounds like a fantastic way to make our developer journeys more visible and shareable. Brilliant idea! All the best with your launch!
Serg
The idea is cool, but the positioning is wrong. It is not about the developers sharing brew files that you can't monetize. But using the profiles and helping ppl verify they are not sybil -> can generate money.
Jessica Wang
Maker
@sergproduct Hey Serg! Thanks for the feedback. However, we don't plan on monetizing this tool. This is simply for the developer community to use, contribute to, and have fun with.
Marco A Ruiz
@sergproduct not everything needs to be monetized... 😒
Benjamin Sloutsky
This seems like a fun thing to have, just to see what stack other devs are using. Seems interesting, congrats!
André J
Heads up: I'm getting "internal server error" when trying to visit the website
Jessica Wang
Maker
@sentry_co Thank you for the heads up! I just fixed the issue, so the website should be back up and running :-)
André J
@fuddgubbler Awesome! upvoted! 🤘
Zenda
Amazing! The sharing spirit of developers drives the progress of the world.👍⛽️
Roman Martirosyan
Congrats on the launch! How does the platform handle privacy and security concerns, especially regarding the sharing of potentially sensitive package information, and what measures are in place to ensure the accuracy and relevance of the leaderboard rankings?
Jessica Wang
Maker
@r_martirosyan Hey Roman! A feature we are considering building is allowing a multi-select experience in the CLI. Before uploading your Brewfile to the website, you can take a look at all your packages and deselect any that you do not want to share. In complete transparency, I've been a web developer for most of my career and never had to worry too much about the privacy of the tools I use. I'm curious if you have specific use cases of security concerns you'd like to avoid? Addressing your question around accuracy of the leaderboard rankings, there are some safeguards we can put in: - Checking for duplicates of a package, in case somebody decides to put "docker" 10x in their Brewfile. Addressing your question around relevance of leaderboard rankings: - We decided to create filters for the leaderboard. Currently, there is a universal leaderboard with every package that has been uploaded to the website. We also have a "top dev apps" and "top CLI tools" filter. For example, we currently have "bat", "clang-format", "multitime", "exa" and more under our "top CLI tools" filter. This makes it easier for developers to discover tools specific to their workflow. Let me know if I answered your questions fully!
Jon
Love the concept! Sadly, I develop on Windows (...ducks behind Microsoft Surface...). But when building in python or typescript, I'm always curious if there are packages I could/should be using, or others that are are out of date, etc. Maybe there's a version of Brewfiles that can support pyproject.toml, package.json?
Jessica Wang
Maker
@pigpen That's a great idea. In theory, it should be simple to support other formats, as long as our CLI logic can recognize the type of file that's been uploaded and parse out the package names correctly. I suppose the Windows equivalent for Brewfiles would be something like the Chocolatey package manager packages.config file. However, I find it interesting that you suggested pyproject.toml and package.json, since these are project-specific whereas a Brewfile/Chocolatey is machine-specific. I like the idea of allowing developers to upload packages specific to something they are building. A cool feature would be identifying other projects that are similar to yours (e.g. you're building a website vs performing a data migration) and compare package versions or recommend similar packages.
Jon
@fuddgubbler I think your product does a great job showing how like-minded people are building. At least in my mind (and maybe selfishly-speaking), a natural extension would be to add the project-based packages. I'm currently working on a python-based LLM project. I'd be really curious what other builders of similar apps have in their pyproject.toml. E.g. do they use Agents? If so, do they have an ops package that monitors the agents? Etc.
Tulika Ghosh
Progressive concept
Toshit Garg
Congrats on launch of Share Brewfiles.....
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