Mac Setup

The procedure I follow when cleaning or setting up a new Mac

General setup

System Settings

Finder Settings

1. Dock to auto hide
2. Show hidden files
3. Don't show recent applications
4. Configurate Trackpad

Arc

Arc is the best browser that I've ever tried, you can download it on their website.

1Password

1Password is my Password manager and it is available in all platforms and even CLI! You can download it in their website

Homerow

Homerow adds Vim motions to the whole MacOS allowing you to scroll and click buttons with the keyboard. Can be downloaded from their website

Karabiner

Is a keyboard customiser for MacOS and I mainly use it to remap my 'Block Mays' to A combination of keys. So I have more hotkeys, you can download it form their website

Dotfiles

I've uploaded my dotfiles to Github to save my configurations in different apps. You can download it with. Recommended to do it on your home directory.

git clone [email protected]:FeernandoOFF/dotfiles.git

SKHD

SKHD is a hotkey daemon that it is manly configured to be used along Yabai

  brew install koekeishiya/formulae/skhd
  skhd --start-service
  
  ln -s ~/dotfiles/skhd/skhdrc ~/.config/skhd/skhdrc

Yabai

Yabai is a tiling window manager for MacOS that allows you to manipulate your app's windows with the keyboard, you can see how I use it on My Keybindings

brew install koekeishiya/formulae/yabaiw
yabai --start-service
ln -s ~/dotfiles/yabai/yabairc ~/.config/yabai/yabairc

Development Setup

Homebrew Setup

1. Install Home brew

sudo curl -fsSL "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh" | bash

Raycast

Raycast is a powerful replacement for the stock spotlight, all the settings are sync in the cloud.

brew install --cask raycast

Warp

The terminal that I use is Warp, and the keybindings are stored in the account.
At the moment there's no way to sync keybindings,but the main keybinding is ⌘ + ↓ to quick-access the terminal

1. Install Warp (Instructions from their site)

brew install --cask warp

ASDF

asdf Is a tool version manager that allows to have a unique version of a tool shared across teams, but also, per project, which allows to easily come back to old codebases.

brew install asdf
brew install gpg gawk

Node.JS

To Install node JS I use the previous mentioned ASDF tool version manager, installing NodeJS is as simple as adding a plugin to asdf.

asdf plugin add nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git
asdf install nodejs latest
asdf global nodejs latest

Github CLI

Create repositories and manipulate your git account from the terminal

brew install gh

Misc CLIs

1. Railway
2. Netlify!
3. Vercel

Oh-My-ZSH

MacOS should come with ZSH Shell by default (instead of bash) I use Oh-My-ZSH framework to manage plugins and aliases. Follow the guide in their site.

The main plugins I use are:

• Git
• Vim
• Syntaxhighlight

Command-line apps

• Autojump Jump
• Fuck
• FZF
• Ranger (CLI)
• Tmux

Code editors

Nvim

I use NeoVim for editing small files or projects, so what I look for

brew install neovim

ln -s ~/dotfiles/nvim/ ~/.config/nvim

Jetbrains

I really enjoy all the Jetbrains suite as is the main site that I spend when developing web, multiplatform and Android, and I find quite easy to move, configure and share all my configurations.
For this setup we'll install the toolbox, which allows you to install any Jetbrains IDE and (in theory) share all the configurations between them.

brew install --cask jetbrains-toolbox

XCode

When developing React Native applications it seems that you need to have the XCode from the AppStore, otherwise I'd use xcodes

brew install xcodesorg/made/xcodes

References

Relates to

• My Keybindings