My 2021 New Mac Setup

• Twitter
• Github (more setup instructions below)
• Gmail

• Disable Spotlight search for all miscellaneous crap except apps and system preferences
  • including stupid Developer option (make sure to add Xcode.app to /Applications not /user/swyx/Applications)
• Disable Ask Siri
• Set to Big cursor for accessibility during presentation
  • some reports of memory leaks when doing this
• Fix trackpad direction: Trackpad -> Scroll & Zoom - Natural off
• Disable dictionary lookup: Trackpad -> Point & Click -> Look up & data detectors off
• (if using windows keyboard) remap alt and cmd keys for ergonomics

• Preferences → show filename extensions
• Enable showing dotfiles (just hold Cmd + Shift + . (dot) in a Finder window)
• Show path bar in footer for easier navigation
• Prune the excessive sidebar bookmarks
  • create "Work" folder and pin it

• remap command+Q to literally anything else - to prevent accidental close-all
• Shortcuts: copy picture of selected area to clipboard -> Cmd+E

• Remove everything from the Dock except: Finder, System Preferences and Trash
• Turn Dock Auto Hiding on
  • turn this on for MacOS Menu bar as well

• Paywall blocker https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/
• See Tweets about any page https://github.com/sw-yx/Twitter-Links-beta (my blogpost here)
• Morpheon Dark theme
• Lastpass
• Display Anchors
• React Devtools
• Refined Github
• Code Copy
• Video Speed Controller ← VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
• Palettab
• Privacy Badger
• RescueTime
• uBlock Origin
• Octolinker
• async render toolbox (i made this)

Install ZSH (first usage of git will prompt you to install git - takes 15 minutes)

• git config --global init.defaultBranch main
• git config --global user.name "swyx"

• git config --global user.email shawnthe1@gmail.com

  • Font - Inconsolata for Powerline
  • autosuggestions

  • syntax highlighting

    • may need to chmod stuff or warnings show at start of every session

    $ sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/zsh
    $ sudo chown -R root:staff /usr/local/share/zsh
    
    

Hyper Terminal

• settings: shell: '/bin/zsh'
• settings: fontFamily: '"Inconsolata for Powerline", Menlo, "DejaVu Sans Mono", Consolas, "Lucida Console", monospace',
• Fig - context-aware autocomplete for terminal. Waitlisted now, but you can skip the waitlist here (i get nothing from this)
  • More CLI tools recommended by Brendan Faik (founder of Fig) - bat, exa, ripgrep, and other Rust CLI alternatives. Also zsh abbreviations
  • More CLI tools from Earthly - HN here
    • broot - a better tree
    • funky - simple shell functions
    • fzf - fuzzy finder
    • mcfly - guesses commands based on your history
    • zoxide - a better cd
    • gitupdate - use file names to create a more meaningful commit message

Install Homebrew - /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

i have a bunch more stuff in brew list but i'm not sure what i use actively. You can mass install these: brew install $(cat packages.txt)

bat             gdbm            libuv           python@3.9
brotli          gh              libyaml         readline
c-ares          go              mpdecimal       ruby
deno            gradle          nghttp2         sqlite
diff-so-fancy   icu4c           node            xz
fnm             jemalloc        openjdk         yarn
fzf             libev           openssl@1.1     z

brew update on m1's have turned out to be super annoying. this helped me: arch -x86_64 brew install YOUR_PACKAGE

brew install bat

Github CLI: brew install github/gh/gh

• you need to login to git - if you have 2fa enabled, you cant use your normal github password. try pushing to a repo and enter in a Personal Access Token for password.
• then run gh auth login
• add GitHub SSH key (not optional)

brew install fzf - fuzzy finder - usage example is here

brew install node

• Node.js/NPM
• npm login
• npm config set loglevel
• sudo npm install netlify-cli -g
• npm i -g sign-bunny fortune-node parrotsay
• npm install -g undollar for removing $
• sudo npm install -g trash-cli

brew install yarn --ignore-dependencies - yarn note

you may need to work around Mac OS Sierra

brew install z - REALLY GOOD TRY IT

Misc

• pip3 install --user powerline-status
• go to a neutral folder and git clone <https://github.com/powerline/fonts> && cd fonts && ./install.sh
• fnm faster alternative to nvm: curl -fsSL <https://fnm.vercel.app/install> | bash or brew install fnm
• Anaconda Python distro - be careful they tend to [modify your bash prompt without asking](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1026383/why-does-base-appear-in-front-of-my-terminal-prompt\)
• Docker Desktop
• brew install ffmpeg and then
• https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
• download Audacity - and install ffmpeg
• brew install java - you could download Java Development Kit from Oracle but fuck them for putting it behind signup wall
• brew install go you may need to export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
• brew install diff-so-fancy - then set git config --global core.pager "diff-so-fancy | less --tabs=4 -RFX" - makes for much nicer git diff
  • You can also diff with this bash function dif() { git diff --color --no-index "$1" "$2" | diff-so-fancy; } or with VSCode code --diff file1.js file2.js.
  • You can also try https://github.com/dandavison/delta

• used to be http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
• maintained version: Amphetamine (thanks Matt Mischuk!)

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notion-web-clipper/knheggckgoiihginacbkhaalnibhilkk?hl=en

• set to Alfred Dark
• airdrop to iphone/ipad
• Cupcake Ipsum

Editor: Download VS Code (I used to use Insiders but the popups are super annoying). use Settings Sync to sync across machines

• have to set up powerline fonts "Meslo LG M for Powerline" (download)
• auto-close-tag v0.5.6
• auto-rename-tag v0.0.15
• Bookmarks v9.1.0
• code-settings-sync v3.1.2
• debugger-for-chrome v4.10.2
• es7-react-js-snippets v1.8.7
• graphql-for-vscode v1.12.1
• mdx v0.1.0
• prettier-vscode v1.6.1
• python v2018.9.2
• python v0.2.3
• rainbow-brackets v0.0.6 - this is now deprecated, use the native "editor.bracketPairColorization.enabled": true
• shades-of-purple v3.17.0
• vscode-graphql v0.1.5
• vscode-import-cost v2.9.0
• vscode-styled-components v0.0.23
• vscode-wakatime v1.2.3
• TabNine AI completions
• GitHub Copilot
• to try: File Utils - recommended by Stolinski
• Here's the full list you can run from command line

code --install-extension 2gua.rainbow-brackets
code --install-extension ahmadawais.shades-of-purple
code --install-extension austenc.tailwind-docs
code --install-extension bradlc.vscode-tailwindcss
code --install-extension cpylua.language-postcss
code --install-extension dbaeumer.vscode-eslint
code --install-extension dsznajder.es7-react-js-snippets
code --install-extension esbenp.prettier-vscode
code --install-extension formulahendry.auto-close-tag
code --install-extension formulahendry.auto-rename-tag
code --install-extension GabrielNordeborn.vscode-graphiql-explorer
code --install-extension GitHub.copilot
code --install-extension golang.go
code --install-extension heybourn.headwind
code --install-extension jpoissonnier.vscode-styled-components
code --install-extension kgscott.retreon
code --install-extension kumar-harsh.graphql-for-vscode
code --install-extension luyizhi.vscode-graphql
code --install-extension ms-python.python
code --install-extension ms-python.vscode-pylance
code --install-extension ms-toolsai.jupyter
code --install-extension msjsdiag.debugger-for-chrome
code --install-extension NickScialli.svelte-dark
code --install-extension octref.vetur
code --install-extension oderwat.indent-rainbow
code --install-extension sdras.night-owl
code --install-extension silvenon.mdx
code --install-extension svelte.svelte-vscode
code --install-extension TabNine.tabnine-vscode
code --install-extension ThreadHeap.serverless-ide-vscode
code --install-extension tht13.python
code --install-extension WakaTime.vscode-wakatime
code --install-extension Wattenberger.footsteps
code --install-extension wix.vscode-import-cost