justintime50 / homebrew-formulas

My personal Homebrew tap housing formulas for all my Homebrew projects.

Hey, I'm Justin Hammond 👋

Senior Software Engineer @EasyPost, IT Pro, Tech Enthusiast

I love all things tech. I've been programming for 18+ years, tinkering with electronics for 15+ years, and founding or building tech companies for 10+ years. I'm an open source fanatic, Apple fanboy, and love to explore new tech. I spend my time coding open source projects, tinkering with electronics and new tech products, and consulting teams on how to get things done.

Noteworthy Projects

The following are items that may not be represented on my GitHub profile but are noteworthy in the software space:

• Crazy Color Clash, my iOS game, is available on the App Store for free! Visit https://crazycolorclash.com for more details.
• Magic Mirror: I built a Magic Mirror which combines the best of software and hardware. Read all about it.
• I've been designing 3D printable models lately and am slowly uploading my creations to Thingiverse. Check them out here.

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Latest Blog Posts

• How to Win Friends and Influence People Book Notes
• The One Line Traefik/Docker Config That Broke My Routing
• Do Not Hold the Picture Button Down on iPhone for Videos, You'll Regret It
• Book Notes: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
• Lessons Learned Running a Space Simulator

homebrew-formulas's Issues

Add Brew Test Bot

Add Brew Test Bot to test the build, test, and install of brew formulas in this tap.

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-test-bot

Create a GitHub Action that Update the Project Table

Whenever new formulas are released, I have to come in and update the Project table in the README with the name, link, and install command of the new project. It'd be really cool to have a GitHub Action setup that would automatically update the project table in the README with this info for me whenever there is a push to this repo so that end-to-end it could be automated (since we have homebrew-releaser and goreleaser automated for the releasing aspects.)

eg:

| Project                                                                      | Install Command                     |
| [alchemist](https://github.com/Justintime50/alchemist)                       | `brew install alchemist`            |

Use https://github.com/Justintime50/pretty-tables to accomplish this.

Auto-Purge Dead Formula from Tap

Summary

If a repo or project ever dies and is no longer accessible, it'd be cool if we could auto-purge that formula from the tap. For instance, freedom was no longer accessible because I deleted the repo. I use the homebrew-releaser project which keeps all my formula up to date but it can't detect a formula that's no longer accessible and so the formula stayed up on the tap for awhile before I remembered and removed it manually.

Acceptance Criterai

• Run a cron job or something that checks if a formula is still accessible. This could actually be pretty cool to run a cron on GitHub Actions daily that simply attempts to install each package from a tap and fails the build if it cannot. Even if it cannot remove something at first, we could have a "healthcheck" that would notify a human to take action if a formula is suddenly gone.
• Document that process and make it reusable for others hosting their own taps?