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All the homebrew packages I've installed on Mac OSX

I've used `brew install ....` many times, but now I'm regretting it because:

  • `brew update` takes so incredibly long to run, and downloads lots of unnecessary git history
  • `/usr/local/Cellar` is 3.8Gb big and I'm short on disk space
List of brew installed apps, in date order:
  • redis@4.0
  • watch
  • tree
  • dnsmasq
  • libunistring
  • libxmlsec1
  • xmlsec1
  • ack
  • putty
  • cmatrix
  • the_silver_searcher
  • ag
  • youtube-dl
  • elasticsearch@6.7
  • vbindiff
  • libpng
  • ilmbase
  • oniguruma
  • jq
  • telnet
  • gifsicle
  • fontconfig
  • tidy-html5
  • minio
  • gcc@4.9
  • autoenv # bugged: breaks "cd -"
  • direnv
  • maven@3.6
  • htop-osx
  • htop
  • xvid
  • npm
  • node@14
  • lsd
  • id3v2
  • nghttp2
  • gnutls
  • sphinx-doc
  • protobuf@3.17
  • markdown
  • postgres@13
  • ruby
  • httrack
  • chafa
  • wget
  • python@3.7
  • python2
  • coreutils
  • ctags-exuberant
  • ctags