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Install Xcode

You will need to install the Apple Xcode developer tools application from the App Store.

🔒 You will need an Apple ID to sign into the App Store to download XCode

⏩ Try clicking this link in Safari and following any prompts to allow opening the App Store

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Configure Your User Profile (~/.zshrc)

Once you have Homebrew installed, it is really helpful to have your user profile ~/.zshrc setup. This will give you your aliases, paths, environment, etc.

🍺 Homebrew in its installation output instructs you to add it to your ~/.zshrc.

⚙️ You may find it useful to both automate the installation of your common profile files as well as keep them under source code

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Configure Your Git Globals

Once you have at least a basic user profile with Homebrew, you can configure your git.

⚙️ You can use an automated script to configure your basic git global configuration.

I use a GitHub repository mac-setup for my basic Mac setup scripts including one to configure

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Add an SSH Key on a Mac

Add and configure an SSH Key to connect to remote source code repositories (like GitHub) and servers.

⚙️ You can use an automated script to add an SSH Key to your Mac.

I use a GitHub repository mac-setup for my basic Mac setup scripts including one to add a new SSH Key.

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Install Git and Vim (with Janus: Vim Distribution) Using Homebrew

Here you will install...

• git the source code control versioning system using Homebrew
• vim the command line editor using Homebrew
• The Janus: Vim Distribution plug-ins and mappings for vim

⚙️ You can use an automated script to install git and vim and extensions such as the Janus: Vim Distribution.

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Install Development Applications Using Homebrew

You can use homebrew --cask to more easily install and manage many of your binary applications like...

• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Docker Desktop for Mac
• IDE's such as Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code

⚙️ You can use an automated script to install

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Set Up a Mac Development Environment (Sonoma 14)

This guide helps you set up the fundamentals needed for software development on macOS. This enables you to install your own language/framework specific development environment (such as Ruby/Rails, Python etc.)

This guide is optimized by following the minimum critical path to get you up and running.

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Enabling and Building Multi-Platform Images in Docker Desktop for Mac

🏫 To learn what multi-platform images are, see this post from Docker Multi-arch build and images, the simple way

You can use Docker Desktop for Mac to build and push multi-platform images to support your containers running on different CPU architectures like Intel/amd64 and Apple Silicon/arm64.

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Using a Counter for Simple and Performant JWT Revocation

📷 Photo: Pioneertown Jail, CA by Wendy Bayer

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One of the biggest challenges with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) as an authentication and/or authorization mechanism is the ability to easily and quickly revoke the token if it becomes compromised.

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Fundamentals of Testing 1: The Three Things to Prove

I'll start with one of the most basic testing fundamentals. It is also one that you will likely find applies in your day-to-day software development.

When you make a software change like adding new behavior or changing existing behavior, you need your testing to prove 3 things:

1. Your changes result in the desired new or changed behavior.