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How to Clean Up Homebrew (brew) and Maximize macOS Storage

At some point, every dev hits it.
You’re installing something routine—npm install, a Go build, whatever—and macOS throws it in your face:

Disk Full.

You check storage, expecting the usual suspects. Not your videos. Not even Docker (okay, maybe a little).
It’s Homebrew quietly eating your SSD in the background.

Left unchecked, Homebrew turns into a museum of bad decisions:

  • tools you needed once, 14 months ago
  • duplicate runtimes “just in case”
  • dependencies of dependencies of dependencies

Let’s fix it—without nuking your setup.

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JFrog Artifactory REST API in 5min

A good API is like a classic car - You want to use it again and again.
A good API is like a classic car – You want to use it again and again.

Most of the interactions with Artifactory will be from your CI/CD tools. It might be your build engine or from your log aggregator. This powerful API can be invoked in any of the standard ways you like to work with any other RESTful APIs (e.g. curl, CLI, your source code, etc’).
In many cases, it’s the preferred ‘glue’ for developers when it comes to automation. The options are extensive and you can do many useful things with this API. However, in this short post, we will cover the most popular actions you ‘must have’.

Let’s start with the most common action: “upload/download binaries“. This action could run automatically from the build machine to Artifactory using:

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