I used homebrew bundle to setup a brewfile for everything installed on my laptop.
Then on new laptop I just ran a script that installed everything on my brewfile.
Here are some references I used:
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Excellent. Thanks. How did you handle dot files?
It’s been a while since I migrated last but I believe I used thoughtbot’s RCM to manage my dotfiles and back them up in a git repo
Then just pulled them down from git and used rcm (installed from laptop script) to put them back in place
Fantastic. Thanks again. 🙌🏼