Useful homebrew formula

Last week I was telling Paul about things I have brew installed on my work laptop. I pulled a full list as I was doing some upgrades and stuff this morning.

Glancing over it a bit, here are some of my favorites/most usefuls:

• autojump for a usage-adjusting cd – given a partial string it just goes to the most-used directory with that prefix. I have autojump aliased to j to shorten it up even more.
• colordiff to make diffs/grep/etc nicer to look at in the terminal.
• coreutils/dateutils is nice because it installs the GNU versions of a lot of standard linux commands like du and ls and date that work a bit strange/differently on OSX.
• jq is amazing — lets you query JSON objects.
• ledger to manage bank balances in plain text.
• newsbeuter to subscribe to RSS feeds.
• osquery lets you do SQL-like queries to find out about the system it’s running on (sharvil did a bunch of work on it, actually…)
• terminal-notifier to pop up notifications from terminal/cron jobs.
• tmux to have long-running terminal windows without having terminal windows open.
• watch instead of “some command”+uparrow+enter+uparrow+enter+….
• wget as shorthand for “curl http://xyz/tuv.json > tuv.json” (old habits…),
• youtube-dl for downloading youtube videos.