mac-setup

Set up personal developing environment for a brand new mac, easy and not much.

Introduction

This repo will fill up commit-by-commit introducing my basic configuration of daily developing.

Steps

Steps are divided into 3 parts: System, Apps and Terminal. Since build and install steps may be vary due to their updates, only sites and simple introductions are listed.

System

• Battery Life: getting the most from computer’s battery.

• Dark Mode: I love dark mode.

• Dracula: My favorite dark theme for many shells, editors and more.

• Path in Finder: for easier navigation.

Apps

• Karabiner-Elements: remapping capslock as ctrl.

• KeyCastr: visualizing keystroke (notice typing password in terminal).

• Hidden Bar: hiding menu bar items for better look.

• Alfred: boosting productivity with it's Powerpack enabled.

• Moom: moving and resizing windows.

• IINA: the modern media player for macOS.

• Sublime Text 4: source code editor outside of Terminal.

• SlowQuitApps: a global delay to stop accidental app quits.

• Vimac: keyboard access almost everywhere.

• espanso: a wonderful text expander.

• Sorted³: schedule my to-do, notes and calendar.

• Dropbox: best file hosting service to me.

• Spotify: listening to music.

• AdBlock: content-filtering and ad blocking.

• Pinboard Extension: this fits all I need for pinboard using safari.

• Vimari: keyboard shortcuts extension for Safari.

• NetNewsWire: open source RSS reader.

Terminal

iTerm2 is my choice of terminal. I spend a lot of time on command line prompt, it works fine.

• Homebrew: managing packages, can be extended by cask.

• Starship: customizable prompt for shell.

• Neovim: once and for all vim solution.

• tmux: pleasant and streamlined workflow.

• Oh My Zsh: managing zsh configuration.

• Docker: making development efficient and predictable.

• fzf: fuzzy finder, together with ripgrep, ripgrep-all and bat.

• htop: a better top command.

• exa: a A modern replacement for ls.

• duf: a better df alternative.

• dust: a more intuitive version of du.

• fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find.

• delta: better viewer for git log and git reflog output.

• diff-so-fancy: makes diffs human readable.

• lnav: the log file navigator.

• rclone: manage files on cloud storage.

• tldr: collaborative cheatsheets for console commands.

• glow: render markdown files.

• entr: run commands when files change.

• jq: a fantastic JSON processor.

• Fig: is a brand new autocompletion CLI tools.

Feedback

Suggestions and improvements welcome!