PinnedMax HowellinteaxyzSomething new is brewingI created Homebrew nearly 13 years ago out of sheer necessity. I found the tooling available to developers at the time haphazard and…Mar 23, 202215Mar 23, 202215
Max Howellinteaxyzdev.diary — tea is env++A few aspects of the shape of tea’s CLI have been bothering me.Jan 31, 20231Jan 31, 20231
Max Howellinteaxyzdev.diary—Finding the FunWhen building any kind of product it takes a little time before you figure out its shape. Famous games developer Sid Meier described this…Jan 23, 20232Jan 23, 20232
Max HowellMaintaining a Homebrew Tap for Swift projectsI read somebody recently complaining that installing Swift projects was hard because SwiftPM has no install command. Ignoring my opinion…Feb 9, 20201Feb 9, 20201
Max HowellWorkbench: Seamless, Automatic, “dotfile” Sync to iCloudAs part of my one‐week‐one‐open-source series this year I have released Workbench.Feb 20, 2019Feb 20, 2019
Max HowellMassively Contributing to Swift Open Source in 2019One-week, one-project, 2019Feb 16, 2019Feb 16, 2019
Max HowellNew Open Source: LegibleErrorLegibleError’s goal is to prevent you showing the user a string like this:Feb 7, 2019Feb 7, 2019
Max HowellKeeping Swift Tests on Linux Sync’dIf your Swift project uses swift test on Linux then you are aware that you need to run swift test --generate-linuxmain in order to get for…Jan 25, 20191Jan 25, 20191
Max HowellServer-side Swift: Making Canopy (5/6)Last time I talked about deploying and maintaining a Linux server. This time I’m finishing up, which leaves a bunch of topics, but mostly…Jan 22, 2019Jan 22, 2019