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I recently restored from a Mojave time machine backup to Catalina on a new computer and it wasn't flawless, as I had to basically reinstall homebrew and its packages.

Fortunately brew bundle helped and most of my apps are installed with brew cask so they were simply listed there and one command later (plus the install time) I was back on with my apps and data (the latter from Time Machine) but I still had to nuke my entire homebrew directory, recompile Python and Ruby (which is understandable) and their packages.

The great thing about this is that I didn't have to configure much as my home directory was in Time Machine, I just went through the new "System preferences" to see what was new as I never had used macOS Catalina before.

My coding setup is pretty straigthforward: zsh + oh my zsh and iTerm2, git on the command line + github's cli, overmind to start processes from Procfiles and Sublime Text 3 as an editor with these extensions:

sublime text 3 extensions.

Probably the fanciest tool is overmind which is quite helpful on the day to day.