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Prerequisites

  1. Run all of the OS updates that are available
  2. Install Homebrew and tap the casks we'll need (brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts, brew tap homebrew/cask-versions)

Shell setup

  • install ZSH - brew install zsh
  • set ZSH as the default shell by 1) adding the output of which zsh to /etc/shells and 2) changing the default shell with chsh -s $(which zsh)
  • add autocompletion to ZSH brew install zsh-autosuggestions (be sure to follow the instructions output by brew to update your ~/.zshrc)
  • later, after installing Node install a cool command prompt like spaceship (more here) - npm install -g spaceship-prompt

Terminal setup

  • install iTerm2 - brew cask install iterm2
  • install Powerline-ed font (such as FiraCode) - brew cask install font-fira-code
  • set a color scheme (see https://iterm2colorschemes.com for some options) and tweak the font in the iTerm preferences

Editor setup

  • Install Atom - brew cask install atom
  • Customize Atom themes - apm install seti-ui monokai-seti
  • Add some key core packages with apm install atom-beautify linter. The linter package is a base linter toolkit that we'll add to later as we install tools for additional languages.

Apps

Downloads:

From the app store:

(you can install these with mas if you brew install mas)

JavaScript dev tools

  • add NVM to manage mulptiple Node versions - brew install nvm
  • then use it to install the latest version of Node - nvm install node
  • then add the related tools to Atom apm install linter-eslint autocomplete-modules
  • install other JavaScript global dev tools - ex: npm install -g gulp-cli

Python dev tools

Other misc. tools

  • a few other niceties: httpie (brew install httpie), duck (brew install duck)
  • brew install fpp for the Facebook Path Picker, which makes running CLI commands on many files much easier
  • brew install bat for the an improved versin of cat
  • brew install m-cli for the m CLI for OS X

PHP dev tools

  • install the latest PHP brew install homebrew/php/56
  • update your PATH to user the updated Homebrew PHP by adding export PATH="$(brew --prefix homebrew/php/php56)/bin:$PATH" to your ~/.zshrc; verify that it worked by running which php or php -v
  • install Composer brew install homebrew/php/composer

Bash scripting tools

  • install shellcheck - brew install shellcheck
  • add shellcheck linting to Atom - apm install linter-shellcheck

Geo tools

  • QGIS - brew cask install qgis (may require brew cask install gdal-framework, even if GDAL is already installed elsewhere)
  • GeoDa - http://geodacenter.github.io/

Stats tools

  • R - brew install r
  • R Studio - brew cask install rstudio
  • PSPP - brew tap homebrew-science && brew install pspp
  • Add R support to Atom - apm install language-r
  • Add the R Kernel to Jupyter - https://irkernel.github.io/installation/

Databases

You have two options here, when it comes to PostgresSQL. I'm currently using Option 1, but will leave Option 2 here because if you want to go that route the pin-ing of the formula is essential.

1) Use Postgres.app:

  • brew cask install postgres to get the app
  • You'll almost certainly then want to add its CLI tools to your $PATH. Doing that, however, will cause Postgres.app's *-config files to show up in your $PATH while using Homebrew, which can create issues. To fix that, you can use something like the below: 
    export PATH_WITHOUT_POSTGRESAPP=$PATH  # stash the PATH w/o Postgres.app for use in brew() below
export PATH="/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/latest/bin:$PATH"  # adds CLI tools from Postgres.app to the default PATH

# Add a brew alias that excludes Postgres.app's bin dir from its $PATH to suppress
# *-config files from polluting brew installs
brew() {
    export PATH=$PATH_WITHOUT_POSTGRESAPP
    command brew "$@"
    export PATH=$PATH
}

2) Install using Homebrew

  • brew install postgres for the latest version of PostgreSQL; you should also pin Postgres (brew pin postgres) to avoid accidental upgrades, which could lead to your data directory being destroyed during a brew cleanup
  • brew install postgis (also a good idea to pin this)

Media editing

  • brew cask install inkscape for working with SVG files

Parsers/handlers for our favorite (and least favorite) file formats

PDF

  • brew install poppler to get pdftotext, pdfinfo, pdfimages, etc. (this'll give you an updated, more full-featured version of what you'd get from brew install xpdf)
  • gpip install pdfplumber for Jeremy Singer-Vine's PDF mining library
  • brew install tesseract to get Tesseract OCR tool
  • install prerequisites, then gem install docsplit to get DocumentCloud's text-/image-extractor
  • for OCRmyPDF, an all-in-one OCR and PDF cleanup solution, brew install ocrmypdf.

CSV/XLS/etc.

JSON

  • brew install jq to get the jq JSON-parsing/-streaming CLI

MDB

  • brew install mdbtools for an exporter, SQL engine for MS Access/.mdb files

PST/MBOX/MSGetc.

Documents

Archives

  • brew install p7zip for the 7z CLI for working with all sorts of archive formats, including some that tar and zip struggle with

Any text file

  • brew install dos2unix for dos2unix, which converts line endings to/from UNIX format
  • brew install bat for a cat replacement with syntax highlighting and less-like scrolling

A couple of productivity tools

  • Dash (brew cask install dash); open Dash and install some docsets for commonly-used libraries
  • open Alfred and install some customw workflows (see here for a great list)

Web development

  • for sharing localhost with the world - npm install -g localtunnel or brew cask install ngrok

Misc.

  • brew cask install licecap for screencaps
  • brew cask install gas-mask for host-file editing
  • brew cask install bitbar for all sorts of cool menu bar trinkets
  • you'll need to generate a new public key and add it to Github and Heroku
  • before committing with git you'll want to setup your name and e-mail git config --global --edit and push strategy (I use git config --global push.default matching)
  • see Flux and AntiRSI
  • see BlockBlock and other Objective-See apps https://objective-see.com/products.html
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