Setup macOS / OS X so that is does not suck quite that hard (living doc)

setup_osx.md

Setting up OS X macOS

Things to configure

• Install latest software update
• Enable touch ID
• Make Dock hide and remove some silly apps (photobooth, ...) disable recently used apps
• Finder:
  • change to list view
  • display all file extensions
  • list view by default
  • oder by name
  • remove shit from sidebar
• Config keyboard key repeat to fastest and delay to shortest (sider is inversed!).
• Trackpad. Make mouse fast and touch soft, disable "swipe between pages", enable 3 finger app switch swipe
• Remove siri from touch bar
• Go to app store, log in, DL basic apps, do updates.
• Config exchange account
• Set in mail display preferences to display newest first in threads
• Change console font to "Menlo" and set it to close window when done
• Download Fira code: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
• Setup clock to show date, too
• Setup battery icon to show percentage, too
• In safari settings, last tab enable the developer's menu
• defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false && killall Finder
• Add finger to touch ID
• In Mission Control settings untick the box to re-arrange spaces by recent usage
• In Mission Control settings disable active corners

Apps to install

• Google Chrome
  • go to chrome://password-manager/settings and disable saving
  • and on chrome://settings/addresses disable autofill
  • install Empty new tab page plugin
  • install react dev tools plugin
  • Turn off "sing in with Google" popups https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14264742?sjid=6769725481476063287-EU
• GIMP
• Caffeine
• XCode and xcode-select --install
• Slack? Sequel pro? Blender? Discord? KaraFun? ...?
• Volta

VS Code

• Download: https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Enable Fira Code: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/VS-Code-Instructions
• Disable telemetry
• Settings > Keybingings > "go to file" > siwtch to cmd+t
• Use atom color theme: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=akamud.vscode-theme-onedark
• Use vs-minimal icon theme.
• Change font size to 15px.
• Install github pull requests, github actions, copilot plugins
• Utils:
  • Install sorting plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/itemdetails?itemName=Tyriar.sort-lines
  • Todo Highlight plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=wayou.vscode-todo-highlight
  • Code spell checker: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker
  • Editorconfig: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EditorConfig.EditorConfig
• Install ESLint pluigin and prettier plugin
• install Apollo plugin, but disable because it impacts performance
• on demand install plugins for Deno, styled components, Scala Metals, rust-analyzer, Prisma, go, MDX

Homebrew

Install some useful packages:

# Tools
brew install wget tree git git-gui pwgen imagemagick htop jq gh gsed
# Git completion (there some stuff you need to paste into bash_profile!)
brew install git bash-completion
# Or:
brew install zsh-completions

# Rails and gem dependencies
brew install openssl readline libyaml libxml2 libxslt libiconv icu4c
# Actual dev stuff:
brew install postgresql redis
# Gollum dependency
brew install icu4c
# JS development
brew install zmq node yarn
# Docker n shit
brew install kubernetes-cli kubectx

Copy from the logs the commands to have launchd start redis/postegresql at login.

Remember to run this from time to time:

brew update && brew upgrade; brew cleanup

To get latest stuff and cleanup.

To copy the installed things use brew bundle dump to produce a Brewfile which you can transfer to another machine and use brew bundle to install everything in it.

Ruby

Install the rubies with rvm:

echo "gem: --no-document" >> ~/.gemrc
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto-dotfiles --autolibs=enable --rails

Install the one most important gem:

gem install bundler

When installing the nokogiri gem, use:

gem install nokogiri -- --with-xslt-dir=$HOME/homebrew/opt/libxslt
# Or:
gem install nokogiri -- --with-xml2-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/include/libxml2 --with-xml2-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.9.2/lib --with-xslt-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.28_1 --with-iconv-include=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/include --with-iconv-lib=/usr/local/Cellar/libiconv/1.14/lib

When installing sqlite3 gem, use:

gem install sqlite3 -- --with-sqlite3-lib=/opt/local/lib/

Bash and firends

Do vim ~/.inputrc and add:

# History search

"\e\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e\e[B": history-search-forward
"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

Get the Bashrc or zsh/ohmyzsh.

Do vim ~/.ssh/config and add ServerAliveInterval 120.

Git config:

git config --global user.name "Bernhard Häussner"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
git config --global pull.ff only
git config --global gui.gcwarning false
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true