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- Apps are for babies. Let's explore command line packages through Homebrew for Mac!
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Homebrew - brew.sh
Python3 - formulae.brew.sh/formula/pyth...
Mailsy - formulae.brew.sh/formula/mailsy
Taskell - formulae.brew.sh/formula/taskell
Speedtest-cli - formulae.brew.sh/formula/spee...
ATA - formulae.brew.sh/formula/ata
Wifi-password - formulae.brew.sh/formula/wifi...
MAS - formulae.brew.sh/formula/mas
MPV - formulae.brew.sh/formula/mpv
c2048 - formulae.brew.sh/formula/c2048
htop - formulae.brew.sh/formula/htop
yt-dlp - formulae.brew.sh/formula/yt-dlp
ImageMagick - formulae.brew.sh/formula/imag...
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0:00 Homebrew, BABY!
0:50 Installing Homebrew
1:55 How to install packages
3:00 MAILSY - temporary emails!
5:00 An app I put on EVERY Mac!
7:50 TASKELL - the free Trello killer!
8:23 Homebrew package and directory info
9:35 TASKELL (cont.)
12:24 SPEEDTEST - without ads!
13:35 ATA - ChatGPT, but good!
16:20 WIFI-PASSWORD - keychain access from the terminal
17:52 MAS - Mac App Store, but text!
20:43 MPV - the VLC killer
22:09 2048 - yep, that game
22:35 HTOP - Activity Monitor, but not garbage
23:58 YT-DLP - CZcams Premium, free
25:50 IMAGEMAGICK - Convert ANY image, ever - Věda a technologie
These YT videos are what set Snazzy Labs out above the crowd for me years ago. Glad to see he brought back his unique skills!
Double this.
Triple!
Homebrew can also install GUI apps (casks). And you can automate installing all of your software on new Mac just by two commands, which is awesome.
"B-but that's so linux!"
Hope someone understands the reference
The rush i get from downloading an app via terminal instead of the internet 😂😂
Shoot, I was ninja'd. 100% agree, that's the best thing about brew.
@@no_name4796 Well MacOS is basically FreeBSD under the hood. FreeBSD is Unix, and Linux is a Unix clone, so yes, they are going to be similar.
I feel dumb for not realizing cask meant gui apps. I’ve been using brew for 6 years now.
20:52 iina on mac is actually based on mpv. there's an option to build mpv as a library (what is called libmpv) and this is what iina uses
9:06 - Quick tip, an even easier way to just open the current directory you're in from the command line is by using the command "open ."
The "." means the current folder, and the "open" command just opens that specific folder in finder. If anyone reads this I hope that helps you! haha
for those on windows, you can do a similar thing with "explorer .", which opens the file explorer on the folder/directory your on in the command line
in the comments to say the same thing haha
it's actually xdg-open, as in some distro, open is just an alias/softlink to xdg-open while others do not even provide that.
So just use xdg-open . if open doesn't work ;-)
And btw, xdg-open works for ALL files, so you can open every kind of file in the default app for that filetype
@@no_name4796Ah, the more you know! open just opens the specified path in a Finder window, assuming you're using zsh (which mostly everyone on a Mac would be using as their shell since it's the default) so I doubt most people on Mac would run into issues - but xdg-open sounds better if you're trying to open a specific file instead of a directory!
Going from Linux where you type dolphin . - I was trying to run finder . ! Thank you for clarifying that "think different" part of MacOS shell.
25:27 shoutout to the sponsorblock community for having an incredible sense of humour 😂
Whoever thought of that is great.
Yes lol
I don’t have auto skip because I like to at least give the sponsor segments a try, and yeah that was funny.
lmao I missed that (wonder why hehe)
Wait, I don't get it, what's the joke there?
Useful tip... CTRL+L is the keyboard shortcut for the clear command. As a bonus, it also works on Linux and Windows (PowerShell). Save those keystrokes!
On linux CTRL+L just moves the cursor down, without cleaning.
So i actually just use clear instead
I thought cmd k clears it
@@no_name4796 Ctrl+L should clear the terminal on Linux systems as well. What terminal and shell (bash, zsh, fish) do you use?
@@jarnobot it clear the terminal. The thing is that it doesn't clean the buffer, so effectively is like it only moves the cursor up.
@@no_name4796 I never realized that but I stand corrected. Thanks for explaining!
btop has way more functionality over regular htop which you may find useful! :)
I was going to recommend btop is amazing! I used to use glances which does something similar but btop is just much faster to start which is handy.
Had not heard of btop, just installed - very nice! Thank you for sharing!
Yessss this is EXACTLY the kind of “obscure” macOS content that I want injected right into my veins
AGREE!!!
hell yeaaa
“If you’re not familiar with Vim… you’re gonna need to learn Vim”
Thanks, this hits even harder when you know Vim
I wonder what the oldest code in OSX is at this point. Like, is there a BSD line dating back to the late 90's? Don't know why this video made me think about that.
Oldest tools I could find and their years
taskinfo 84
sysdiagnose 84
mempurge 84
gnumake 89
rarpd 90
machine 91
whoami 93
tty 93
groups 93
false 93
true 93
logname 93
crontab 93
accton 93
cap_mkdb 93
pagesize 93
pathconf 93
mount 94
mkfifo 94
expect 94
wrjpgcom 95
tops 95
lorder 95
cksum 95
colldef 95
leave 95
xxd 96
vm_stat 97
mkfile 97
cmpdylib 97
gencat 97
bashbug 98
Note: these are not guaranteed to be bsd, I just scraped the man pages
Depends... do you mean OS X? There's no way to check that without having the source code _and_ repository history (there are some sources out there btw, but not with full history). But for Darwin, it also depends if you mean committed by Apple (XNU) or from Mach kernel.
@@heartdyedpurple "January 24, 1984" in the man page for taskinfo and others may be an in-joke at Apple. That's the launch date of the first Macintosh, which didn't have a shell, so no taskinfo command either.
Commands like ‘cat’ originated in Unix v1 way back in 1971, and are still present on macOS today. They’ve been tinkered with over the years, but no doubt some portions of the original code remains.
A great workflow I found is to save the installed packages using `brew list` and `mas list`, and then easily reinstall them if I wipe my OS or move to a new computer.
brew has a tool for this built-in. Use `brew bundle dump` to create a Brewfile.
I some nerdy inspiration from Jeff Geerling and have a ansible playbook I can use to reinstall all my stuff from a net new machine.
2:37 This is incorrect. Python3 does ship with a mac today, the only issue is that to use it you have to type python3 which is non conventional and a lot of scripts\tutorials expect python3 to use "python".
3:11 Shortcut is command+K
I just set an alias in my zshrc file to map “python” to “python3” and I haven’t run into any issues yet
I'm legitimately shocked that Quinn doesn't know about the macOS Terminal command "open". Whatever directory you are in, typing "open ." will open the current directory as a folder in Finder. "Open" can be used in the Terminal to open any file using the GUI.
Can I just say, I thoroughly enjoy your info and tips for mac - I much prefer your style of delivery in this video.
Thanks for all the content either way
I hope you'll make this a regular series.
As an old time Unix guy this video makes me very happy. I'm about to upgrade my Mac and this is a good prompt to install a package manager on it.
instead of `speedtest-cli` you could use `networkQuality` comes already installed with Mac OS Monterey and later
Also if you use `networkQuality -p` it test the quality through Apple's Private Relay
does networkQuality auto stop when a test is done?
Two more things about brew that make it awesome:
1. With brew casks you can install nearly any Mac GUI app. Google Chrome, VLC, Steam, 1 Password etc.
2. You can feed brew a list of packages and casks to install all at once.
Together with the MAS utility in the video, going from a clean computer to having all of your utilities and apps installed becomes a breeze. No need to go to each app's website/App Store page and installing apps manually. Still need to sign into each app though.
Great point
But known issues for mas at GitHub list signin, account, and purchase as not possible in current macOS, and for quite some time. Is there some workaround you know about? The app responded by referring to those limitations when I tried using those commands.
This is what sets snazzy labs apart from the rest. Giving that extra edge to what many tech focused channels miss… because frankly it’s becoming lost on the majority of people. So many have “grown up” with technology don’t REALLY have much of an understanding of how it works other than pretty the superficial. It feels like the bar is so low that if you can remember your password or scan a QR code you are tech savvy.
I work in marketing but have a fairly decent background in technology so when I open terminal your average employee thinks I’m a “hacker” haha. I’m also who IT tends to go to see if I can get around stuff that they are deploying to the rest of the team that is using Macs, but I really don’t know much. Just enough to get myself in trouble.
Such a great video. While I actually do have homebrew already, I haven’t used it much lately. This gave me some inspiration to rethink some of my workflows.
So please don’t hesitate to cover these more niche topics from time to time ;)
While Snazzy's audience is generally more technically savvy, it would have been good to warn people that running scripts downloaded from the internet poses a security risk - not something the average person should make a habit of.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Though install Homebrew is safe, someone who is not savvy enough to know about how insecure it is running scripts from arbitrary websites, may end up doing it from now on. Would have been nice with a disclaimer to warn people about it.
Jep, the average person should stick to run compiled stuff they fund on the internet.
@@RC2225needs the missing /s
I think the warning is implied
This advice applies to any program, whether installed via a package manager or otherwise.
24:08 holy crap Scott the Woz
Hey all, Scott here
Is that the guy who owns Sonic Jam?
WiiU
Oh my gooooo...
@@davidgoncalvesalvarezI have terrible news for you
Started learning to work with terminal recently and this is so helpful. All these apps are geniunely useful. Thanks Quinn!
love these types of videos. thanks for sharing!
These types of videos you do are flippin amazing. Love it every time
You say how useful it is to learn Vim ‘shortcuts’. Then immediately use nano.
Hahaha old habits die hard (but actually just wanted to use nano for beginners watching cause it’s so much easier)
@@snazzy you should try Micro :P, even MORE beginner friendly
I love your guides. Very easy to follow, yet not superficial. Would love a guide on how to use some common tools, not only presenting them. Like, how to use VIM, SSH, nmap, etc
I’ve been interested in learning more about terminal for years but it was always daunting. This video was perfectly situated for my knowledge level. Thank you so much!
Glad you enjoyed it!
h stands for 'human'! Same thing can be passed as an argument to many functions like `ll -h` to get nicer outputs
Fun fact, ll is actually an alias to ls -la, so ll -h is actually ls -lah
this is an amazing video. thought i was a power user before but i've now added like 5 of these to my every day workflow. Thanks!
Awesome! Thanks for doing another app roundup. Love seeing all the cool apps you dig up! :)
I've been using mpv since the Linux days and you're dead on about its efficiency.
12:59 if you want the best speedtest cli experience get the official package! What Quinn installed is speedtest cli in a python wrapper. The official native package performs better especially when testing speeds over a gigabit!
whats the official one?
@@salman_3833 Ookla have their own cli speedtest app, listed on the speedtest web site.
Great apps, even for powerusers. Thank you!
Love these classic Snazzy Labs videos.
Love these types of videos!
I love these types of videos Quinn makes every once in a while
3:05 Why install python? I’m curious - packages have usually just installed their own dependencies anyway in my experience 🤔 that being said I’ve installed python anyway because I write python, so maybe there’s a reason and I just never noticed
Yeah, there's no need to install Python if you don't need it. HomeBrew itself doesn't use it.
Great video! I've been using the terminal on Linux for years and I feel like you did a great job at making it understandable and approachable, while also showing the power of the terminal! One extra tip: Instead of running the "clear" command, you can also press Ctrl+L. Way more efficient and it should work on Mac as well. :)
I'm actually surprised you hit on so many of these. Several of them I use daily, but I also spend my whole day in a terminal since I do software development on distributed computers, glad to see someone suggesting 'vim' over one of the boring editors like 'nano'! I use 'tmux' a lot, so those wanting to use the terminal more, tmux rocks! I will say, plugins are super important though.
Fantastic. Quality stuff as usual.
yes! this is the nerdy stuff i need!
Absolutely tremendous video. Also the delivery made me smirk lots. Top drawer.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I use homebrew for pretty much everything when it comes to installing and managing software on my mac. Plus most of my work related apps like neovim live in the terminal as well, so it's like my home base on my mac :)
Quick tip: Python 2 has not been shipped with the mac for about 2 years now; macOS 12.3 and onwards removed it. A version of Python 3 is *sort of* present (it's part of the Xcode command-line tools, and thereby also full-fat Xcode itself) but in a base OS install with no dev tools, there's no Python any more.
btop is htop but better for general use in my experience, not sure if it works on mac though
it does. just tried it and it is WAY nicer than htop
Thanks for the tip with the speedtest. I hope for more content for hombrew/command line. You seem to have a lot of knowledge. How did you learn VIM? Learning by doing?
Really good video, thanks
Personally I use Nix exclusively on both Linux and Mac machines
Nix is just overkill for me. I use fedora and dnf has already enough packages, otherwise i just download and use the tar/appimage
22:38 Activity Monitor this is a perfect example of how Apple mostly abandons MacOS as a serious OS. Also their refusal to revamp the Dock with is just a terrible design. I guess they don't want to follow Windows or Linux and admit it's an outdated design that looked cool 20 years ago but was never as functional as it looked.
the Dock is awful.
years ago Apple users used to defend it hard and you would get a response that you don't know how to use MacOS and it's your fault. i've noticed years later there is a good portion of Apple users who agree it's completely outdated. to me the litmus test on the dock being a bad design is how everyone has there own way of attempting to use it and the advance guys solution is to basically hide it lmao. yes as you mentioned the good Linux distros like Ubuntu have a modern dock design.
But what functionality to you expect it to have? It's a Dock. It does one thing; docking your applications. If your intent is to use it as a search engine, use Spotlight, Alfred or even better, Raycast for such tasks.
@@EdtheFED6132 Yeah. Not that very long ago got myself Mac out of curiosity to see the "allmighty" OS. Well first thing that struck me that this "dock" thing isn't anything to scream about. Interestingly read somewhere that it's awesome? Second was the discovery of worst application window management of any OS available. Jeeszh it was like going back to WinXP 🤢🤮😀
In the Winblows vs. Mac debate, your average Mac user doesn’t even get the best part of Mac: ‘nix underpinnings.
There’s a reason Microsoft abandoned their own platform (e.g., Winblows NT) for server side backend infrastructure and moved to Linux instead.
Mac users - even on Apple silicon - have choices outside of Mac GUI world… VMs, Docker, native BSD/Linux-ish stuff. There’s a reason Mac has worldwide market share of 43% specifically among developers. Linux desktop GUIs are lame compared to MacOS, so with Mac you kind of get the best of both worlds.
Man I really love these videos. I implement maybe 10% but it's so interesting and useful to know
isn't clean my mac basically malware itself? what the hell?
came to say this, I´ve been seeing several youtubers being sponsored by cleanmymac as of lately
Why?
You can't remove it completely, ever… Unless you reinstall macOS itself. Just one of those fancy-looking junk software that keeps on recommending things that you “need” to buy from them after you purchase it. Basically just more ways for you to give them your money. So many simple open source apps that do uninstalling, etc, much, much better.
@@mlsmlc Thank you for the answer! Could you give me a recommendation for a good alternative? Finding duplicates, keep the storage clean, uninstall completely, etc?
amazing !! pls more of this. thank you for your work
Dude, you are so good at what you do. Where others are boring or annoying, you thread the needle of being just fun, likeable, and informative. Frankly, I think you'd be a good successor to Conan. Good job man.
MPV mentioned lets gooooooo, also I recommend Emacs :)
Great video. A few of these I wasn't aware of. Thank.
I use FFMPEG to convert videos and I love it. It's good for converting any kind of file to another format, burn in subtitles, save a RAW copy in MP4, etc.
Ahh light mode terminal
At an airport my niece wanted to connect her Nintendo switch to the airport wifi but couldn't because of the login requirements. So I used brew to install an tool to clone my niece's Switch MAC address and sign in to wifi with my Macbook. After that, her switch worked with the airport wifi.
Thank you so much for this video! It probably won't get as many views as a review of a fancy new product, but it was really helpful! I use linux at work (mac at home), so I am totally comfortable with the command line, but I only know a few things worth doing in it. This will really upgrade my mac usage, plus I got Clean My Mac based on your glowing rec!
IMO, cleanmymac isn't worth paying for monthly, if you want an uninstaller the best one is appcleaner which is free. I think cleanmymac as a business exists to extract money from the non tech savvy. I refuse the believe snazzy actually uses it / likes it / pays for it.
I'm not a macOS person (more of a Linux daily driver) but some of these really are pretty interesting suggestions. p.s. Big +1 for encouraging folks to pick up some command line skills. 😄
Warning: Just be careful when pasting commands like that first one into the CLI. It's just for installing "brew", but you really need to trust the developer and the developer's own security, since that command would allow them (or whoever potentially hacked their servers) to take 100% complete control over your system if you also enter your credentials into the sudo prompt.
you are my hero, I am new to use terminal and you er perfect to explain how to use it :-D the best regards from Denmark 😀
Awesome video!!! I wish Snazzy Labs taught courses for beginners I would sign up!
Have you tried the Nix package manager? I use it in its bespoke Linux distro, but it's apparently pretty good on MacOS as well.
Nix on macos feels wrong somehow ahahah
@@no_name4796 Haha, that's why I want to hear the thoughts of a Mac power user.
Personally I love homebrew for how many packages it has, no need for Coprs or PPAs just use brew instead and pretty much done
The only obvious tool I thought was missing was ffmpeg - basically imagemagick for video. At the most basic usage, it's dead simple to convert a video from one format to another "ffmpeg -i " where the output file's extension says what format to convert to. Like imagemagick, ffmpeg is wildly powerful.
plop@plops lol, that's literally my go to
"Bean-efits" genius
Your terminal window gives me a headache
Why
@@Ghfvhvfg no dark mode
@@swiftrealmdefault on macOS unfortunately
For imagemagick, the command "mogrify" will do basically everything what "magick" does, but does it to multiple files at once. So "mogrify -resize 20% *.jpg" takes all the JPGs in the folder and resizes them. It is INCREDIBLE!
so useful, needed this
htop is a godsend. I use it on my Linux machine.
23:30 you can indeed see the per core processor load with activity monitor, it is just hidden in a seperate window accessible via the toolbar.
It's pretty crap but it exists
For a video player, I'd recommend IINA. It's FOSS as well, with a beautiful UI and is quite feature laden and supports every codec I've thrown at it so far
I mention IINA. Good app. Prefer hotkeys in mpv.
Yeah, fair, @@snazzy. I really like the web scraping of subtitles, audio eq and visual characteristic controls on IINA despite using mpv for all other kinds of playback, especially in anything I build haha.
@@snazzy iina does actually have an option to replace the default hotkeys with mpv's default ones
Nothing will have me click faster than a macOS related SnazzyLabs video
Make one about the Ollama 🤩
which app you use to record screen like this? with the selfie circle and moving windows and such
ScreenFlow.
22:45 I figured it was ScreenFlow, since I saw the ScreenFlow process in Activity Monitor! 😂 When I worked for a public school, we used SF for user tutorials. Everything from “how to install Office” to “how to send Bill $20”. I still have that one if you’re interested. 😂
I know there's chocolatey, but are there similar apps like this for Windows? Especially mailsy!?
SponsorBlock segment at 25:26 is kinda funny ngl
Yay time to install stuff I will never use again. Not kidding I download everything you suggest 😂
Fellow data hoarder!
Don't remember you saying this, but brew can also keep your apps up to date. Just `brew update` to get the latest information and `brew upgrade` to have it upgrade all your apps to the latest version.
This should be a once a month series - best brew packages and how to use them
I could never date someone who isn’t subscribed to you ❤ great video Quinn!
Did u drop the idea of a video regarding VLANing out your smart home equipment using UniFi?
Otherwise, Love to see a CLI video! Can’t believe you are encouraging vim to new shell users but super cool to see some of your useful tools! I’m gonna pick up ATA and maybe kill my web-based subscription in favor of api now
In case someone stumbles upon this comment, aside from htop there is also nvtop, which is htop for your NVIDIA GPUs. As a machine learning engineer, I find it invaluable to be able to monitor the activity of my GPU and to see which python session consumes what part of RAM, power, e.t.c.. It is not for Macs obviously, but I just wanted to share as it helped me a lot!
As a developer, I use homebrew. However, running a shell script downloaded from the Internet and enabling sudo always scares me. Sure, I guess it is better than an actual mac installer since you can always download the shell script first and look through it to make sure it doesn't do anything bad. One could also say that using any package manager which downloads executables off the Internet to run locally is itself a risky idea. But, I guess you have to trust something otherwise a computer is unusable.
Vim and Haskell mentioned in a Snazzy Labs video? I seriously wasn’t expecting that lmao
Best kind of videos from Snazzyyy
That sponsorblock-remove option is incredible, thank you for that! - I have premium, but sometimes I just don't want to watch those sponsored blocks!
I love this! Thank you.
very cool. mac on expert level
instructions unclear, my computer is sentient now
22:37 btop and glances are better than htop in my opinion
Take a shot every time Quinn says "This takes a minute" 😂
Are there versions of these for windows as well?
last time i was watching these videos like brew i was not a programmer, now its like watching adults play with lego
Any suggestions on a simple free and lightweight app to trim videos while still keeping the same resolution?
Another thing I always do on a new OS install, where possible, is to edit /etc/pam.d/sudo to put “auth sufficient pam_tid.so” at the top. This allows you to use the Touch ID instead of typing in your password when running sudo. (The latest macOS uses “include” to bring in a separate file, so the new line goes into the included file instead.)
not only that, if you play a long list of files with mpv in the command line and then you quit and run the command again will resume where you left off