Álvaro Ramírez is a genius at what might be called programming at the edges. By that I mean he’s good a finding and solving small problems that can negatively effect our workflows. A great example of that is his dwim-shell-command package. Of course, he written some full fledged applications such as Journelly as well.
His latest example of programming at the edges is a post on how to patch an Emacs from Homebrew. For those who don’t know, Homebrew is a package repository that provides pre-built packages for macOS and Linux.
After a long time of building Emacs from source, Ramírez starting using Emacs Plus from Homebrew. It’s a lot easier than worrying about library dependencies, especially on macOS. But what happens if you want to patch Emacs Plus or some other Homebrew package?
Ramírez, of course, has the answer. It’s just the sort of problem that he excels in. There’s no point in me repeating his procedure. Most of us won’t need it but if you’re one who does, take a look at Ramírez’s post.