feat: add homebrew automation scripts for macOS

[bniladridas]

Homebrew Scripts Collection

This PR adds a new homebrew-scripts directory containing safe shell scripts for common Homebrew operations. The scripts provide automated ways to manage packages without destructive actions, enhancing the dev environment setup process.

Changes

• Added update-brew.sh: Updates and upgrades Homebrew packages.
• Added install-common-tools.sh: Installs essential dev tools.
• Added cleanup-brew.sh: Cleans up old versions and unused dependencies.
• Added check-outdated.sh: Lists outdated packages.
• Added install-languages.sh: Installs additional programming languages.
• Added install-utilities.sh: Installs common CLI utilities.
• Added minimal-install.sh: Minimal example script with substantial commentary.
• Added README.md: Documentation for all scripts.

All scripts are executable, linted, and follow safe practices. This aligns with the repo's focus on streamlining macOS development environments.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request introduces a set of opinionated yet safe Homebrew automation scripts designed to significantly streamline the setup and maintenance of macOS development environments. By encapsulating common Homebrew commands into repeatable shell scripts, it aims to enhance efficiency, reduce manual effort, and ensure consistency in managing software packages, tools, and languages.

Highlights

• New Homebrew Scripts Directory: A new homebrew-scripts directory has been added, containing a collection of safe shell scripts to automate common Homebrew operations.
• Automated Package Management: Scripts like update-brew.sh, cleanup-brew.sh, and check-outdated.sh provide automated ways to manage Homebrew packages, ensuring a clean and up-to-date environment.
• Streamlined Tool Installation: Dedicated scripts (install-common-tools.sh, install-languages.sh, install-utilities.sh) are introduced to simplify the installation of essential development tools, programming languages, and CLI utilities.
• Documentation and Examples: A README.md provides comprehensive documentation for all scripts, and minimal-install.sh serves as a commented example for basic installations.

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Code Review

This pull request introduces a helpful set of shell scripts for managing Homebrew. The scripts are well-structured and follow safe practices by using set -e. My review includes suggestions to further improve the scripts' efficiency and robustness. Specifically, I've recommended combining multiple brew install calls into a single command for better performance and updating the shell options to set -euo pipefail for stricter error handling. I also noted a redundant package installation. Overall, these are great additions to streamline the development environment setup.

[graphite-app]

Installing npm separately when Node.js already includes it will cause conflicts. When brew install node is executed on line 15, npm is bundled with Node.js. Installing npm again on line 20 creates a duplicate installation that can lead to version mismatches, PATH conflicts, and unpredictable behavior where commands may use the wrong npm version.

Fix: Remove line 20 entirely:

# Remove this line:
brew install npm

Node.js installation already provides npm, so this separate installation is both redundant and problematic.

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[bniladridas]

I'll keep it concise.

[harper-bot-glitch]

It's up to date with origin and the working tree is clean.