Mac Dev Setup

Simple setup with lot of goodies 🍎

Preferences

1. Enable Trackpad / Tap to click

2. Enable Accessibility / Mouse and trackpad / Trackpad options / Enable dragging / Three finger drag

3. Disable accent menu (needs restart):

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

4. Move key repeat rate and delay until repeat all the way to the right

Setup

1. Install Brave.

2. Install homebrew. Also installs command line tools.

3. Install brew packages.

brew install git vim yarn wget watchman tree ffmpeg gh coreutils

4. Configure git:

git config --global user.name "First Last"
git config --global user.email [email protected]

5. Install Cascadia Code font

6. Add GPG and SSH keys

7. Install quick-look plugins:

brew install qlcolorcode qlstephen qlmarkdown quicklook-json qlimagesize webpquicklook quicklookase qlvideo --cask

CLI

1. Install Oh my ZSH

2. Install dotfiles

CLI plugins

• Fig - modern terminal autocomplete
• ZSH autosuggestions
• bgnotify
• ZSH syntax highlighting
• z
• fzf
• fkill-cli
• fx
• bat
• diff-so-fancy
• pgcli
• mycli
• ag
• cleanup
• sudo
• web-search
• jay
• yt-dlp - improved youtube-dl

Browsers

• Firefox
• Brave

Extensions

• Bitwarden
• Dark Reader
• File icons for GitHub and GitLab
• Keepa
• Lighthouse
• Markdown Here
• MetaMask
• Minimal Theme for Twitter / X
• Phantom
• Raindrop.io
• React Developer Tools
• Reddit Enhancement Suite
• Wikiwand
• SponsorBlock - auto skips YouTube sponsors

Utils

• TickTick - task management
• Raycast - spotlight and alfred alternative
• Dato - better date menu bar app
• Bandwidth+ - bandwidth monitoring
• Sensible side button - for gaming mouse
• Scroll reverser - auto scroll reverse on mouse
• Itsycal - view calendar from menu bar
• KeepingYouAwake - prevent mac from sleeping
• Lungo - prevent mac from sleeping
• Maccy - clipboard manager
• Rectangle - window manager
• Kap - screen recorder
• Mounty - NTFS volumes in write mode
• Thor - painless application switching
• Dozer - hide menu bar icons
• Android File Transfer - for android phones
• Pock - touchbar dock
• MTMR - touchbar customizations
• Markdown here - email in markdown
• Mos - smooth scrolling with external mouse
• Flotato - turn any webpage into floating app
• Background Music - auto pause music
• QRCP - share files to and fro another device through QR code
• Latest - check for all apps updates
• OneMenu - menu bar app for checking resource utilization, quick window management, keyboard cleaning

Dev

• iTerm - terminal
• VSCode - code editor
• GPG Suite - gpg manager
• Xcode - react native stuff
• Android Studio - react native stuff
• React Native Debugger - react native debugging
• Table Plus - the DB app
• Sequel Pro - MySQL client
• Postgres app - Postgres for mac
• Postico app - Postgres client
• MongoDB app - MongoDB for mac
• Redis app - Redis for mac
• Contraste - simple color contrast ratio viewer
• Medis - redis client
• Proxyman - proxy client for apps
• brew-services-menubar - managing brew services from menubar
• ngrok - localhost tunnel
• RunJS - JS runtime desktop app that executes as you type
• Hoppscotch - API Client

Music

• SpotMenu - spotify and itunes menubar app
• Spotify - best music app
• LyricsX - song lyrics

Apps

• Obsidian
• Raindrop - all my bookmarks
• Zoom - video calls
• Black Out - hide sensitive information on images
• Dropbox - cloud storage
• Discord - chat client
• Telegram - chat client
• Figma - design software
• IINA - media player
• Pym - image compression
• Davinci Resolve - video editing
• Clocker - timezones menubar app
• Flip clock screensaver - nice screensaver
• Notion
• WhatsApp
• Signal
• Slack
• Kindle
• Darkroom - photo editing

Related

• Linux dev setup
• Mac dev setup
• Dotfiles

Author

• @divyanshu013 👋

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