Max Howell ✓

@mxcl · Apex, NC, USA · joined 03 Apr 2007

Creator of Homebrew. You’re welcome and I apologize. Now building the security layer for what happens when AI agents use it: @AutomicVault

34 817Followers

684Following

5 003Posts total

11.1KViews on collected posts

Derniers posts

Max Howell ✓@mxcl19 Sep

I have been using curly quotes; em dashes; not X, but Y; and the rule of three for decades. Check my prior work. The rest of you are in trouble though. 1.1K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Max Howell ✓@mxcl16 Sep

Package Manager Manager v0.25: - manage installations from go, pip, pipx, pkgx, bun, pnpm - can update most things in /Applications/ without brew - improvements for managing mise, rust, python, uv, node, npm & brew package ecosystems Manage everything on all your Macs and http

1.9K views · 23 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Max Howell ✓@mxcl15 Sep

Products for devs are quite dead. SaaS for devs is dead. There are exceptions, though I think you have to extrapolate on variables that are not raw software. I have ideas and am implementing them. Mostly in private because building in public also can no longer be capitalized 3.4K views · 24 likes · 1 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Max Howell ✓@mxcl14 Sep

I'm not saying replacing Steam is trivial but I am saying that a version of steam where I am not signed out of the website after 22 seconds would have a chance. 1.1K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Max Howell ✓@mxcl4 Sep

Your agents run Full Access. The Supply Chain is Compromised. The apps are vibe-coded. It’s fine: just install Automic Vault. 1.7K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Max Howell ✓@mxcl4 Sep

https://t.co/U0Y9lEFTIz

1.8K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Face aux comptes de taille comparable

6 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé largement, mais peu de ces spectateurs réagissent.

Vues médianes1 767ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %5.08%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.46%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
Vues médianes par post	1 767	924	1.91×
Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	5.08%	3.62%	1.40×
Taux d'engagement	0.46%	1.52%	0.30×

Autres comptes de cette tranche → Comparer avec un autre compte → Comment ces repères sont établis →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.8K4 Sep

1.7K

1.1K14 Sep

3.4K15 Sep

1.9K16 Sep

1.1K19 Sep

Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.22%4 Sep

0.23%

0.27%14 Sep

1.02%15 Sep

1.53%16 Sep

0.66%19 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes67.7%63 in total

Reposts5.4%5 in total

Replies12.9%12 in total

Quotes2.2%2 in total

Bookmarks11.8%11 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.