diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index 1c99fbf..e01a154 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -5,31 +5,20 @@
         "railwaycat/emacsmacport"
     ],
     "brew": [
-        "ansible",
-        "automake",
-        "awscli",
         "bash",
-        "binwalk",
-        "cask",
-        "chezscheme",
         "clojure",
         "cmake",
         "coreutils",
         "curl",
-        "dep",
         "direnv",
         "emacs-mac",
-        "entr",
         "fd",
-        "fzf",
         "gawk",
         "git",
         "git-lfs",
         "global",
         "gnu-sed",
-        "gradle",
         "httpie",
-        "ical-buddy",
         "imagemagick",
         "jam",
         "jq",
@@ -38,35 +27,17 @@
         "librsvg",
         "libssh2",
         "libxml2",
-        "mosh",
         "neovim",
-        "nim",
-        "nmap",
-        "nnn",
-        "osquery",
-        "pandoc",
         "parallel",
-        "pdfgrep",
         "pkg-config",
-        "qrencode",
-        "qt",
         "ripgrep",
-        "sdl_mixer",
-        "sdl_sound",
-        "shellcheck",
-        "smpeg",
-        "socat",
         "stubby",
-        "swiftlint",
         "tag",
-        "tailor",
         "terminal-notifier",
-        "tesseract",
         "texinfo",
         "the_silver_searcher",
         "tmux",
         "unbound",
-        "unison",
         "vim",
         "watchman",
         "wget",
@@ -78,39 +49,34 @@
     ],
     "casks": [
         "alfred",
-        "arq",
+	{"name": "arq", "when": "home"},
         "bettertouchtool",
+	"brave-browser",
         "dash",
         {"name": "epic-games", "when": "home"},
         "fantastical",
         "firefox",
         "font-fira-code",
         "font-fira-mono",
-        "franz",
+	{"name": "franz", "when": "home"},
         {"name": "gog-galaxy", "when": "home"},
-        "google-chrome",
         "hammerspoon",
         "iina",
-        "iridient-developer",
-        "java8",
-        "julia",
+	{"name": "iridient-developer", "when": "home"},
+	{"name": "java8", "when": "home"},
         "keka",
-        "keybase",
+	{"name": "keybase", "when": "home"},
         "lunchy",
-        "onyx",
         {"name": "openemu", "when": "home"},
         "osxfuse",
-        "popclip",
-        "r-app",
         "racket",
-        "rstudio",
-        "signal",
+	{"name": "signal", "when": "home"},
         "skim",
         {"name": "steam", "when": "home"},
         "tla-plus-toolbox",
-        "transmission",
+	{"name": "transmission", "when": "home"},
         "virtualbox",
-        "vmware-fusion",
+	{"name": "vmware-fusion", "when": "home"},
         "xquartz"
     ],
     "mas": [
@@ -148,8 +114,8 @@
         "config/*": "~/.config/",
         "launchagents/*.plist":"~/Library/LaunchAgents/",
         "hammerspoon/*": "~/.hammerspoon/",
-        "etc/unbound/*": "/usr/local/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/",
-        "etc/stubby/*": "/usr/local/etc/stubby/"
+        "etc/unbound/*": "~/homebrew/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/",
+        "etc/stubby/*": "~/homebrew/etc/stubby/"
     },
     "post-install": [
         "brew cleanup",
diff --git a/install.py b/install.py
index 950e92c..4c0e666 100644
--- a/install.py
+++ b/install.py
@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ def install_mas(apps, tags):
 
 
 def check_install_deps_macos():
-    if not os.path.isdir("/usr/local/Cellar"):
-        print('Installing homebrew')
-        runcmd('/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"', stderr=STDOUT, shell=True)
+    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.expanduser("~/homebrew/Cellar")):
+        print('installing homebrew for the current user')
+        runcmd('mkdir ~/homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C ~/homebrew')
     if not os.path.isfile('/usr/local/bin/mas'):
         print('Installing mas')
         runcmd('brew install mas')
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ def install_from_config(config_file, tags):
     # FIXME: only do the following four on macos hosts
     if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
         check_install_deps_macos()
-        install_taps(config.get('brew-taps', []))
+        install_taps(config.get('taps', []))
         install_brew(config.get('brew', []), tags)
         install_casks(config.get('casks', []), tags)
         install_mas(config.get('mas', []), tags)
diff --git a/launchagents/local.timods.watchman.plist b/launchagents/local.timods.watchman.plist
index 02c74b4..05541d4 100644
--- a/launchagents/local.timods.watchman.plist
+++ b/launchagents/local.timods.watchman.plist
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
     <false/>
     <key>ProgramArguments</key>
     <array>
-        <string>/usr/local/Cellar/watchman/4.9.0_2/libexec/bin/watchman</string>
+        <string>/Users/timods/homebrew/Cellar/watchman/4.9.0_2/libexec/bin/watchman</string>
         <string>--foreground</string>
-        <string>--logfile=/usr/local/var/run/watchman/timods-state/log</string>
+        <string>--logfile=/Users/timods/homebrew/var/run/watchman/timods-state/log</string>
         <string>--log-level=1</string>
-        <string>--sockname=/usr/local/var/run/watchman/timods-state/sock</string>
-        <string>--statefile=/usr/local/var/run/watchman/timods-state/state</string>
-        <string>--pidfile=/usr/local/var/run/watchman/timods-state/pid</string>
+        <string>--sockname=/Users/timods/homebrew/var/run/watchman/timods-state/sock</string>
+        <string>--statefile=/Users/timods/homebrew/var/run/watchman/timods-state/state</string>
+        <string>--pidfile=/Users/timods/homebrew/var/run/watchman/timods-state/pid</string>
     </array>
     <key>KeepAlive</key>
     <dict>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
     <dict>
         <key>PATH</key>
-        <string><![CDATA[/Users/timods/.local/bin:/Users/timods/.cargo/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:]]></string>
+        <string><![CDATA[/Users/timods/.local/bin:/Users/timods/.cargo/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/timods/homebrew/bin:/Users/timods/homebrew/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:]]></string>
     </dict>
     <key>ProcessType</key>
     <string>Interactive</string>
diff --git a/launchdaemons/local.timods.stubby.plist b/launchdaemons/local.timods.stubby.plist
deleted file mode 100644
index e0a88f8..0000000
--- a/launchdaemons/local.timods.stubby.plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-/Apple/DTD PLIST 1.0/EN" "http:/www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
-<plist version="1.0">
-  <dict>
-    <key>Label</key>
-    <string>local.timods.stubby</string>
-    <key>KeepAlive</key>
-    <true/>
-    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
-    <true/>
-    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
-    <array>
-      <string>/usr/local/opt/stubby/bin/stubby</string>
-      <string>-C</string>
-      <string>/usr/local/etc/stubby/stubby.yml</string>
-      <string>-l</string>
-    </array>
-    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
-    <string>/usr/local/var/log/stubby/stubby.log</string>
-    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
-    <string>/usr/local/var/log/stubby/stubby.log</string>
-  </dict>
-</plist>
diff --git a/launchdaemons/local.timods.unbound.plist b/launchdaemons/local.timods.unbound.plist
deleted file mode 100644
index f3a72ea..0000000
--- a/launchdaemons/local.timods.unbound.plist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-/Apple/DTD PLIST 1.0/EN" "http:/www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
-<plist version="1.0">
-  <dict>
-    <key>Label</key>
-    <string>local.timods.unbound</string>
-    <key>KeepAlive</key>
-    <true/>
-    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
-    <true/>
-    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
-    <array>
-      <string>/usr/local/opt/unbound/sbin/unbound</string>
-      <string>-d</string>
-      <string>-c</string>
-      <string>/usr/local/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf</string>
-    </array>
-    <key>UserName</key>
-    <string>root</string>
-    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
-    <string>/dev/null</string>
-    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
-    <string>/dev/null</string>
-  </dict>
-</plist>
diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 8886ef1..ea6e19b 100755
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ python3 install.py config.json $* || (echo "Setup failed!" && exit 1)
 test -f /tmp/casks && xargs </tmp/casks brew cask install
 case $(uname -s) in
   Darwin)
-    for plist in launchdaemons/*; do
+    for plist in launchdaemons/*.plist; do
       daemon_path="/Library/LaunchDaemons/${plist#launchdaemons/}"
       sudo cp "./${plist}" "$daemon_path"
       quietly sudo launchctl stop "$daemon_path"
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ case $(uname -s) in
       sudo launchctl load "$daemon_path"
       sudo launchctl start "$daemon_path" || echo "Error loading ${plist}!"
     done
-    quietly test /usr/local/sbin/stubby-setdns-macos.sh && sudo /usr/local/sbin/stubby-setdns-macos.sh
+    # quietly which stubby-setdns-macos.sh && sudo stubby-setdns-macos.sh
     ;;
   *) # Linux setup
     ;;
diff --git a/zsh/1.sh b/zsh/1.sh
index be68e5f..0dbaea5 100644
--- a/zsh/1.sh
+++ b/zsh/1.sh
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 # Do nothing if not interactive
 [ -z "$PS1" ] && return
+PATH="$HOME/homebrew/sbin:$HOME/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH"
diff --git a/zsh/path.sh b/zsh/path.sh
index bab3ac1..6ef9584 100644
--- a/zsh/path.sh
+++ b/zsh/path.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ case $(uname -s) in
         ;;
     Darwin)
         # since /usr/local is managed by homebrew (and it complains about "unmanaged" pkgs, I use $HOME/.local
-        BASEPATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:"
+        BASEPATH="$HOME/homebrew/sbin:$HOME/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:"
         BASEPATH=$(__maybe_append "$BASEPATH" "/opt/X11/bin" "/Library/TeX/texbin" "$HOME/macports/bin" "$HOME/Library/Python/3.7/bin")
 
         if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" -a -d /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home ]; then