A custom Homebrew tap for personal/third-party macOS applications and tools.
- Alacritty (
alacritty): GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. - Radicle (
radicle-desktop): Desktop client for the Radicle peer-to-peer code collaboration network. - MarkText (
mark-text): Markdown Editor
Because third-party Homebrew taps run custom package code on your system, Homebrew's security policy requires you to explicitly trust the tap before installing from it.
Run the following commands to add the tap and authorize it on your machine:
brew tap justin24506/tap
brew trust justin24506/tapOnce the tap is trusted, you can install the application natively:
brew install --cask <cask-name>If you prefer to install it immediately using a fully-qualified name without tapping first, Homebrew will prompt you for trust dynamically:
brew install --cask justin24506/tap/<cask-name>If you manage your software setup via a Brewfile using brew bundle, add these lines:
tap "justin24506/tap"
cask "<cask-name>"(Note: If running automated bundles, you may need to execute brew trust justin24506/tap prior to running brew bundle to prevent the installer from skipping it).
Some apps do not go through Apple's official App Store notarization.
My cask configuration automatically strips the macOS quarantine flag for such unnotarized apps during installation. However, if macOS Gatekeeper still blocks the app from launching with an "unverified developer" warning, you can easily bypass it:
- Open your
/Applicationsfolder in Finder. - Right-click (or
Control+ click) the application icon. - Select Open from the context menu.
- Click Open again on the security confirmation dialog. (You will only need to do this once).
OR
You can clear the quarantine attribute via the terminal:
xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/<AppName>.appbrew help, man brew or check Homebrew's documentation.