List of software & tools that I like to use

Note: I'm on a Mac

First off, if you have a fresh macbook, the first things to get are:

Homebrew

iTerm2

Zsh

Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS and the essential tool for any developer.

Press ⌘ + space and type terminal and press <enter>. A new terminal session should be up. In terminal paste the following:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Note: Command Line Tools for Xcode is a dependency for this action, which can be obtained through App Store Updates.

iTerm2

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.

With homebrew installed, we can install iTerm via brew install (taps homebrew/cask):

brew install iterm2

Press ⌘ + space, type iterm, and press <enter>. You are now using iTerm!

Zsh

Zsh (or Z shell) is a much more powerful shell than Bash, so let's get it! Specifically, Oh My Zsh - which is an open-source framework for managing ZSH configs.

brew install zsh zsh-completions
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Don't forget to update the .zshrc with the /usr/local/bin to your $PATH environmental variable:

echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

Note: Doing the above tells the system to use programs installed by Homebrew, rather than the OS default, if exists.

List of software

IDEs

Atom brew install atom
VSCode brew install visual-studio-code - preferred
Sublime brew install sublime-text

Git workflow visualizer

SourceTree brew install sourcetree
Sublime Merge brew install sublime-merge

Testing/Debugging

Postman brew install postman
Charles brew install charles

Web browsers

Google Chrome brew install google-chrome
Google Chrome Canary brew install google-chrome-canary
Vivaldi brew install vivaldi
Brave Browser brew install brave-browser

Window manager

Spectacle brew install spectacle

Communication

Slack brew install slack
IrcCloud brew install irccloud

Agile

Trello trello.com
Harvest brew install harvest for time-tracking

Markdown editor

Typora brew install typora

DB GUI

Postico (for postgreSQL) brew install postico

Credential Management

1Password brew install 1password
MacPass brew install macpass

Misc

Flux brew install flux (this feature is built-in to newer MacOS)
Duet brew install duet for dual screen set-up
Charles Proxy brew install charles for viewing all HTTP(S) incoming and outgoing traffic

To remove the delete key delay

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 0
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Creating memorable passwords in command line interface

While you can use Mac OS's Keychain Access app to generate a password or test the strength of a password, it's not nearly as cool as doing it in terminal- and at the time of this writing, there is no way to generate a memorable password with the native app.

Memorable passwords are easier to remember than traditional passwords as they are a random collection of commonly used english words. There are many way to create memorable passwords, below are two ways.

Option 1: Using `shuf`

Install shuf

brew install coreutils

Use shuf like so:

shuf -n4 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs echo | pbcopy && pbpaste

The above will output the generated password and also copy it to clipboard. Just paste (⌘ + v) the password where necessary.

To adjust complexity of password, change the number following -n, for example -n4 outputs 4 words, where as -n5 would output 5 words so it has higher entropy, increasing guess difficulty. An argument of -n3 outputs 3 words, therefore decreases complexity and guess difficulty. At the time of this writing

To hide the password output in the CLI, remove && pbpaste from the above script.

Option 2: Using `xkcdpass`

Install xkcdpass

pip install xkcdpass

Running xkcdpass

$ xkcdpass
> pinball previous deprive militancy bereaved numeric

For more, see https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator#running-xkcdpass

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