Gian's current macOS setup

as of Sept 2021, Big Sur

Initial setup

Dead simple script to setup my new Mac:

cd ~/Downloads
curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/master/defaults.sh | bash
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/master/install.sh
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
./install.sh >> install_log.txt

Taken from https://github.com/pathikrit/mac-setup-script

1. Install brew

2. Clone repo

   git clone git@github.com:gianpaj/mac-setup-script.git

3. Set macOS settings

   cd mac-setup-script
   bash defaults.sh

4. Install apps

   bash install.sh

5. Reboot

Applications

Hardware

• Karabiner Elements

  • to fix the back tick character ` when pressing §
  • non_us_backslash to grave_accent_and_tilde

• Alfred workflows

  • SwitchAudioSource (to switch between audio devices)

    

  • Switch Appearance – Change between Light and Dark Mode

    

Work desktop apps

• Linear - Ruler app with web-development in mind

  My bug fix

  git clone git@github.com:gianpaj/linear.git
  git checkout -b upgrade-electron-package origin/upgrade-electron-package
  npm install
  npm run package

  Disable Gatekeeper:

  sudo spctl --master-disable

Productivity apps

• NightOwl - Toggle the Dark mode via the Menu Bar
• Horo (timer/pomorodo menu app)

Software development apps

• VSCode

• Android Studio

  • Android SDK path

• Xcode

  • Command-line tools

• asdf (Manage multiple runtime versions - Node.js, Python, etc.)

• iTerm2

  • Zsh (Guide)

  • oh-my-zsh

    sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

    • zsh-syntax-highlighting

      git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

    • zsh-autosuggestions

      git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

    • zsh-completions

      git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:=~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions

    • pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

      (already installed in install.sh)

    • Update .zshrc

  • Load .zshrc from Dropbox

    cd ~
    ln -s ~/Dropbox/Mac/.zshrc .zshrc
    
    # results in
    $ l .zshrc
    lrwxr-xr-x - gianpaj 30 Aug  2022 .zshrc -> /Users/gianpaj/Dropbox/Mac/.zshrc

  • Load .aliases from Git repo

    cd ~
    ln -s ~/github/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/bash/.aliases .aliases
    
    # results in
    $ l .aliases
    lrwxr-xr-x - gianpaj 29 Nov 12:11 -M .aliases -> /Users/gianpaj/github/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/bash/.aliases

• asdf

  asdf plugin-add python
  asdf install python latest

• zed config

  ln -s ~/github/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/apps/zed/settings.json ~/.config/zed/settings.json
  ln -s ~/github/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/apps/zed/keymap.json ~/.config/zed/keymap.json
  ln -s ~/github/gianpaj/mac-setup-script/apps/zed/snippets.json ~/.config/zed/snippets.json

Clean merged branches

git branch --merged | egrep -v "(^\*|master|dev)" | xargs git branch -d

Ubuntu linux useful commands

Upgrade all security packages

sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade | grep "^Inst" | grep -i securi | awk -F " " {'print $2'}
sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade | grep "^Inst" | grep -i securi | awk -F " " {'print $2'} | xargs sudo apt-get install -y

VSCode extensions

• GitLens
• Sublime Text Keymap and Settings
• ESLint
• EditorConfig for VS Code
• DeepScan - Detect bugs and quality issues in JavaScript, TypeScript, React and Vue.js more precisely
• JavaScript (ES6) code snippets
• Prettier - Code formatter
• Markdown All in One - keyboard shortcuts, table of contents, auto preview and more
• markdownlint - Markdown linting and style checking
• npm Intellisense - autocompletes npm modules in import statements
• Path Intellisense - autocompletes filenames
• TODO Highlight - highlight TODOs, FIXMEs, and any keywords, annotations...
• Color Highlight - Highlight web colors in your editor

General apps

• Dropbox
• Spotify
• App Cleaner
• Window and Keyboard managers (skhd and yabai)
  • https://blog.dsubachev.com/install-a-tiling-window-manager-on-your-mac/

Firefox Settings

about:config

• Disable zooming with Cmd + Mouse wheel mousewheel.with_meta.action = 0 disabled from 3 zoom

Firefox Extensions

• Auto Tab Discard (similar to The Great/Marvellous Suspender)
• Grammarly
• uBlock origin

Chrome Extensions

• New Tab Clock
• uBlock origin
• Ghostery - Privacy Blocker
• The Marvellous Suspender
• LastPass
• Grammarly
• Pushbullet
• Wappalyzer
• Time Zone Converter - Savvy Time
• Hide Likes
• Hide Feed
• xTab - Limit the maximum number of tabs that can be open at the same time.
• Reader View
• Google Image Search

Web development

• webhint
• Preact Developer Tools
• React Developer Tools
• OctoLinker

uBlock filters

ublock-filters

Desktop apps

• Giphy Capture

• or kap

  brew install kap --cask

Resources

• macOS Setup Guide by Sourabh Bajaj