My MacOS dev setup

No links are provided since most of the software to download is a search-engine-query away.

Firefox

• Set as default browser
• Login in Firefox sync (now with containers)
• Set DuckDuckGo as default search engine (looks like Firefox conveniently forgets this setting)
• Unlock Bitwarden key wallet

System

• Show battery percentage on menu
• Show Bluetooth icon
• Mouse: uncheck "Natural scroll"
• Shortcuts
  • Remove command+arrow to move through spaces
  • Add command to cycle through application windows (Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts / Keyboard / Show the next window): ⌘ \
• Install Flycut for multiple clipboards; preferences:
  • General: Launch Flycut on login
  • Appearance: Menu item icon: Black scissors

Brew

Install the Brew package manager

Python

$ brew install python3

$ pip3 install --user pipenv

This is a user installation. If pipenv isn’t available in your shell after installation, you’ll need to add the user base’s binary directory to your PATH.

1. Get the base path from: python3 -m site --user-base
2. Open the shell profile file in an editor: vi ~/.zshrc
3. Add the path to PATH: export PATH=$PATH:<the base path from before>/bin. Notice we added /bin at the end.

Other apps

• Fork (Git)
• VSCode
• Sketch
• Docker Desktop Community Edition:
  • I used to have an hard time figuring out the download page.

VSCode extensions

• Python
  • Change language server to Pylance (follow instructions)
  • no need for a linter now.
• DotENV
• Vetur
• Django

Setup SSH keys

Fork did that for me. I then copy/pasted the public key in my Github profile.

Node

LTS Version: 14 (until Oct21). Installed with nodenv:

$ brew install nodenv
$ nodenv install 14.16.0
$ nodenv global 14.16.0
$ touch ~/.zshrc

Then add eval "$(nodenv init -)" to .zshrc file.

Font

• FiraCode
• JetBrains Mono