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Thank you guys for making my life as a software dev and end user infinitely easier.

- brew install postgresql

- brew install mpv

The list goes on and on and on. You rock!

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Postgres.app[1] would make your life even easier. :)

[1]: http://postgresapp.com/

I switched to use the homebrew version because I couldn't get the pg tools and such to work from the command line. Nobody got time for that. :P

Fair enough, I've personally never had that experience.

After doing both homebrew and Postgresapp for a while, I've switched to using Docker to run it. It's really nice because then on a per-app basis I can have separate versions easily and all checked into version control.

Postgres.app is "easier" to install but more trouble to develop with than properly installed Postgres. And "easier" means downloading an app, since it's quicker and fewer steps to install via Homebrew.

It's a convenient app but I'm very conscious of menu bar real estate, and mostly don't use it for the reason of adding an icon where the only interaction is launching / quitting it.

I wish we had a better GUI for managing a user's daemons on OS X.

Yeah, I'd definitely love to see an option to hide the icon.

It seems like there could be territory here for a menu bar app that hooks into homebrew-services [1]. It'd still take some menu bar room, but it could have one dropdown for a whole variety of services in an integrated way.

[1]: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-services

And you can do `brew cask install postgres`.

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