💻 New Mac

The things I do when setting up a new Mac

Initial setup

• Set up Touch ID

• Install XCode command line tools with xcode-select --install

• Install homebrew

• Install Brewfile with brew bundle install --no-lock

• Symlink (hard link) hosts to /etc/hosts with sudo ln -f dotfiles/hosts /etc/hosts

• Restore all dotfiles:

  gfind dotfiles -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs -L1 -I{} basename "{}" | xargs stow --dotfiles --no-folding --target ~/ --dir dotfiles  --verbose --adopt
  

• Reset the repo

    git reset .
  

• Optional, on work computer: brew bundle install --no-lock --verbose --file=Brewfile-work

• Run .macos file source .macos

• Transfer .gnupg keyring and .ssh key files

• Disable Ruby documentation parsing

• Add auth sufficient pam_tid.so to /etc/pam.d/sudo for biometric sudo authentication

• Install programming languages with sh ./asdf.sh.

• ﹗ Reboot

• Configure 1Password and let it synch

• Install and configure Dropbox and let it sync

Learn the YubiKey serial number and create the stubs to point to the GPG keyID and Yubikey Serial number

gpg --card-edit
# then in the gpg prompt:
# > fetch
# > verify
# > quit
gpg-connect-agent "scd serialno" "learn --force" /bye
gpg-connect-agent updatestartuptty /bye

Alfred

• Configure Alfred and enable it for ⌘-double tap
• Enable sync via Dropbox

Visual Studio Code

• Enable Settings Sync

Finder

• Remove labels tags and clean up sidebar

Install and configure

• Apple TV Aerial Views Screen Saver
• Apple Watch pam.d auth plugin (pam_tid.so needs to be first)
• Apple watch screensaver
• Bartender
• Fantastical
• GPG Suite
• Hazel (and sync rules with Dropbox)
• Ledger Live
• LiteIcon
• Little Snitch
• MailSuite
• Micro Snitch
• Pock
• Raycast
• Rubitrack
• Shifty
• Stop the Madness
• TamperMonkey
• Termius
• Things
• Viscosity

Dock

• Add commonly used apps to the Dock

Other

• Transfer iMessages history (~/Library/Messages)
• Add email to lock message in Security & Privacy settings
• Disable Siri system wide, and remove Siri button from touch bar
• Disable Fantastical Advanced setting Go to today after adding items
• Block incoming port 80 using Little Snitch
• Configure iMessage and Facetime to allow receiving text messages

iPad

This also works on iPad with iSH:

apk --update add stow gnupg gnupg-scdaemon

find dotfiles -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs -I{} basename "{}" | xargs stow --dotfiles --target ~/ --dir dotfiles --no-folding --verbose --adopt