GLMeece

New macOS Machine Setup

This guide is based on my own experience, but also draws on other guides. It is primarily oriented towards those doing code-related stuff (e.g., I'm mostly an SDET, but is also applicable to those doing either Python or Web-based development).

A couple of other examples:

• Setting up my Dev Environment on a Mac.
• macOS Catalina: Setting up a Mac for Development

Most of the setup will use the terminal. For more details on how to setup an awesome terminal experience on the Mac, see my guide Steps to Terminal Enlightenment on a Mac (tweaking your terminal for fun and profit), which in fact includes some of these steps (you're welcome!).

pudquick

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

• Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account

GLMeece

NANO on macOS and Windows

This should get you up and running with the installation and basic configuration of GNU Nano on both macOS and Windows. In the case of macOS, this will install a newer version of Nano that includes syntax highlighting.

macOS Installation

Homebrew

It is assumed you already have Homebrew installed. If not, then Verify or Install Apple's Command-line Tools and then proceed with the installation of Homebrew. 🍺