![]() ![]() I could not install HomeBrew and install software through it. I do not think it is very hard but it does require some familiarity in working with the command line. Now obviously, since I am working in a highly regulated industry where security is the biggest concern, I had no admin access on the machine hence I could not install what I wanted. You can argue there’s Git bash but not the same. OMG, I was just so so happy, in my first year at the bank I used a Windows machine but it was good to be have the command line again. As of the last few months, they introduced MacBooks for engineers in the bank and I was one of the first people to be given the opportunity (or I was just a guinea pig) to get the Macbook. Hence, coming to work for a bank was a huge shift for me in many ways. This was a surprise for me, seriously, in the last 13 years of my 15 years career in software engineering, I have worked with Unix based systems for development. If they were to try and find something in a large codebase, they would use a GUI based search tool, as opposed to grep. My god! everyone here uses Windows, the engineers I work with, love GUI based applications. My most recent job is to build software at a bank and as I entered the highly regulated banking industry, I realised something. In the last 15 years of my career, not once had I worked in a bank, hence I had no idea of just how restricted the development environment is. This post aims to be a guide on how to install software on your Mac without Homebrew & admin access or Homebrew by adding path variables to your terminal profile. Now the question is, as a software engineer, how do you do your best work when you have to work with a Macbook without admin access? Add to it, you cannot even install Homebrew on your Mac. As a software engineer, for you to be productive, it is important for you to be able to freely install and experiment with all the software development tools out there. a Macbook you most likely do not have admin access. If you are a software engineer who works for a bank and if you are allowed to use Mac machines e.g.
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