macOS Monterey setup

TODO: Ansible playbooks to setup a mac from scratch

Summary

• Prerequisites
  • Update system
  • System Preferences
• Terminal
  • Homebrew
  • iTerm2
  • ZSH
  • Starship
  • Nano
• VSCode Setup
• Finder Preferences
• Itsycal Preferences
• Unshaky
• Resources

Prerequisites

Update system

Apple menu > System Preferences… > Software Update

System Preferences

1. Security & Privacy > General > "Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins"
2. Security & Privacy > Firewall > Turn on, then Options > check "Stealth mode"
3. Security & Privacy > Privacy > Analytics > uncheck "Share Mac Analytics"
4. Trackpad > check "Tap to click"
5. Trackpad > uncheck "Scroll direction natural"
6. Dock > check "Automatically hide and show the Dock"
7. Dock > "Prefer tabs when opening new documents" > choose "Always"
8. Battery > check "Optimize video streaming while on battery"

Terminal

Homebrew

1. Install Homebrew
2. Brew installs: ansible, bandwhich, docker, docker-machine, ghc, go, git, haskell-stack, htop, imagemagick, nano, ncdu, node, sshpass, starship, yarn, zsh
3. Cask installs: appcleaner, background-music, ccleaner, dbeaver-community, flux, font-firacode-nerd-font, google-chrome, iterm2, itsycal, kap, keepingyouawake, notion, omnidisksweeper, qlmarkdown, smcfancontrol, usage, virtualbox, visual-studio-code
4. Aliases in ~/.zshrc:

alias du="ncdu --color dark -rr -x --exclude .git"

iTerm2

Install

brew install --cask iterm2
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install --cask font-firacode-nerd-font
nano ~/Desktop/Nord.itermcolors # copy/paste https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-iterm2/blob/develop/src/xml/Nord.itermcolors, can be deleted afterwards

Preferences

1. General > Closing > uncheck all
2. Appearance > Panes > uncheck "Show per-pane title bar"
3. Appearance > Dimming > check "Dim inactive split panes"
4. Profiles > General > "Working Directory: Advanced conf" > Edit > "New Split Panes: Reuse previous session's directory"
5. Profiles > Terminal > check "unlimited scrollback"
6. Profiles > Colors > Color Presets… > Import > ~/Desktop/Nord.itermcolors > Color Presets… > "Nord"
7. Profiles > Text > Check "Vertical Bar" + check "Blinking Cursor"
8. Profiles > Text > Select "FiraCode Nerd Font Mono" + "Regular" + size 14 > check "Use Ligatures"
9. Profiles > Keys > Key Mappings > Presets… > "Natural Text Editing"

References

• https://iterm2.com
• https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-iterm2
• https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

ZSH

1. Create a config file nano ~/.zshrc
2. Enable ZSH options: setopt autocd
3. Enable Homebrew completions
4. Install ZSH Completions: brew install zsh-completions
5. Install ZSH Autosuggestions: brew install zsh-autosuggestions
6. Install ZSH Syntax Highlighting: brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
7. (still needed?) Fix ZSH Autosuggestions copy/pasting lag in ~/.zshrc:

# This speeds up pasting w/ autosuggest
# https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/issues/238#issuecomment-389324292
pasteinit() {
  OLD_SELF_INSERT=${${(s.:.)widgets[self-insert]}[2,3]}
  zle -N self-insert url-quote-magic # I wonder if you'd need `.url-quote-magic`?
}
pastefinish() {
  zle -N self-insert $OLD_SELF_INSERT
}
zstyle :bracketed-paste-magic paste-init pasteinit
zstyle :bracketed-paste-magic paste-finish pastefinish

Starship

Install

brew install starship

Add eval "$(starship init zsh)" at the end of ~/.zshrc.

Create a config file: touch ~/.config/starship.toml

Preferences

[aws]
symbol = "  "
disabled = true

[battery]
disabled = true
full_symbol = " "
charging_symbol = " "
discharging_symbol = " "

[cmd_duration]
style = "yellow"
format = "[$duration]($style) "

[conda]
symbol = " "

[directory]
style = "bold blue"

[docker_context]
symbol = " "

[elixir]
symbol = " "

[elm]
symbol = " "

[env_var]
variable = "ENV"
style = "dimmed blue"
format = "ENV=[$env_value]($style) "

[git_branch]
symbol = " "
style = "dimmed white"

[git_status]
style = "dimmed white"
ahead = "⇡${count}"
diverged = "⇕⇡${ahead_count}⇣${behind_count}"
behind = "⇣${count}"

[golang]
symbol = " "

[hg_branch]
symbol = " "

[java]
symbol = " "

[julia]
symbol = " "

[nix_shell]
symbol = " "

[package]
symbol = " "

[php]
symbol = " "

[python]
symbol = " "
style = "yellow"

[ruby]
symbol = " "

[rust]
symbol = " "

References

• https://starship.rs

Nano

Install

brew install nano nanorc
echo 'include "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/nanorc/*/share/nanorc/*.nanorc"' >> ~/.nanorc

References

• https://www.nano-editor.org
• https://github.com/scopatz/nanorc

VSCode Setup

Extensions:

• Auto Close Tag
• Auto Rename Tag
• Bracket Pair Colorize
• Debugger For Chrome
• Flow Language Support
• Git History
• Latest TypeScript and JavaScript Grammar
• Monokai Pro
• NPM Intellisense
• Path Intellisense
• Prettier
• TODO Highlight
• vscode-styled-components

User settings:

{
  "editor.fontFamily": "Fira Code",
  "editor.fontLigatures": true,
  "editor.fontSize": 15,
  "editor.minimap.renderCharacters": false,
  "editor.renderIndentGuides": true,
  "editor.tabSize": 2,
  "extensions.ignoreRecommendations": false,
  "files.trimTrailingWhitespace": true,
  "git.autofetch": true,
  "workbench.colorTheme": "Monokai Pro (Filter Machine)",
  "workbench.editor.tabSizing": "shrink",
  "workbench.iconTheme": "Monokai Pro (Filter Machine) Icons",
  "window.zoomLevel": 1,
}

FINDER PREFERENCES

1. View > Show Path Bar + Show Status Bar
2. Toolbar > Add Get Info + Remove Arrange, Action, Share and Edit tags
3. View > Show View Options > Big Icon Size + Text Size 14px + check Calculate all sizes > Use as Defaults
4. Preferences: General > New Finder: Downloads
5. Preferences: Advanced > uncheck Show warnings + check Remove items from the trash & Keep folders on top

ITSYCAL PREFERENCES

Before: Click on the date in menu bar > Open Date & Time Preferences > Clock > uncheck "Show date and time in menu bar"

1. General > check "Launch at login" + first day of week: Monday
2. Appearance > Format: "E d MMM H:mm" + check "Hide icon"

UNSHAKY

On a mac with a broken keyboard, install https://github.com/aahung/Unshaky.

RESOURCES

• https://github.com/drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide
• https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps
• https://www.reddit.com/r/OSXTweaks