Homebrew Roundup — 2026-06-12
A roundup-style entry rather than one file per package. From today's Homebrew publish list, these are the formulae and casks worth flagging — short paragraph each, link straight to the brew page.
Formulae
merman-cli — Mermaid.js, but headless, in Rust. A parity-focused reimplementation of
mermaid@11.15.0 that parses, lays out, and renders diagrams without a browser or JavaScript runtime — emits semantic JSON, layout JSON, SVG, raster (PNG/JPG/PDF via SVG rasterization), and ASCII/Unicode for terminals and logs. The corpus-driven benchmark harness clocks it at 4.3× to 56.4× faster than mermaid-rs-renderer and upstream Mermaid JS, median ~15.8×. Interesting for Lossless-Flavored-Markdown pipelines that currently shell out to mermaid-cli (Puppeteer + headless Chrome) just to bake one diagram — replacing that with a static Rust binary collapses CI image-size, cold-start, and font-loading footguns in one move. brew install merman-cli.mimo-code — Xiaomi's open-source terminal AI coding agent, built for long-horizon tasks that span dozens of steps and multiple sessions. The differentiator is the cross-session memory architecture: a four-layer SQLite FTS5–backed system with project memory (
MEMORY.md), session checkpoints (checkpoint.md), scratch notes (notes.md), and per-task progress logs (tasks/<id>/progress.md), plus a dedicated background subagent that continuously condenses context when the active conversation approaches its limit. Past 200 execution steps Xiaomi claims a >65% win rate against Claude Code — which is the right benchmark axis to argue on (single-shot quality matters less than whether the agent remembers architectural decisions you made yesterday). Pair-think with Kimi from the June 8 roundup — the Chinese-lab terminal-coding-agent cohort is now a category, not a one-off.Casks
shade — AI-native media storage and asset management platform, built for video post-production studios, sports media teams, agencies, and content teams. Block-level streaming engine makes large files editable the moment they upload (no local downloads); AI processes footage on ingest — transcripts, face recognition, scene descriptions, keyframes — so editors can find a specific soundbite or visual moment via natural language query. The product thesis is collapsing the Frame.io + Dropbox + Iconik three-tool stack into one workspace; raised $14M from Khosla, Construct, and Bling in April bringing total funding to $20M. Adjacent in pattern to Freepik is Now Magnific - A Stock Library Becomes an AI Studio — both are AI-first reimaginings of incumbent creative-workflow categories rather than thin wrappers bolted onto them.
brew install --cask shade.terax — Terminal-first AI-native developer workspace built on Tauri 2 and React 19. ~7–8 MB on disk, 300ms cold boot, no Electron tax, no telemetry, no account — bundles native PTY (portable-pty + WebGL renderer, multi-tab, split panes), CodeMirror 6 editor with Vim mode and hunk-by-hunk AI edit diffs, file explorer, git graph, web preview pane, and an agentic AI side-panel into one window. BYOK across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, Cerebras, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Mistral, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, plus fully-local via LM Studio, MLX, or Ollama. Sits in the same category fight as Windsurf - Six Weeks of Changelog from Adaptive to Devin Local and Kiro - Three Months from Custom Subagents to CLI 2.0 but stakes out the "boring, fast, no-account" corner — closer in spirit to Helix + tmux than to Cursor.
brew install --cask terax.