Setting up a new Mac

Mac.md

Setting up a new Mac

Folders

• mkdir ~/Projects

App installs

• Everything what I own from Mac App Store
• Latest XCode from Mac App Store

Development

• Ruby version manager
  • Ruby 1.9.3
    • Gems: bundler, travis, travis-lint
  • Ruby 2.1.0
• Node.js latest
  • npm install -g grunt-cli imageoptim-cli
• homebrew
  • zsh
  • leiningen
  • git
    • git config --global push.default simple
  • legit
    • legit install
  • autojump
    • Remember [[ -s $(brew --prefix)/etc/autojump.sh ]] && . $(brew --prefix)/etc/autojump.sh to .zshrc
• prezto
• Postgres.app
• heroku CLI
• VirtualBox
• vagrant
• imageoptim

Web browsers

• Chrome
• Chrome Canary
• Opera beta
• Firefox
• Firefox Developer Edition

Code editors

• Sublime Text 3
  • Remember the Dropbox sync!
• Eclipse Java for Clojure development

Entertainment

• Spotify
• VLC
• Steam

Communications

• Flowdock
• Skype

Utilities

• 1Password
• Dropbox
• Ukelele
  • Enable Logitech Finnish; it can be found from the .dmg itself
• Filezilla
• iTerm2 test release
• Fluid
• licecap

OS X settings

TODO! Find out the actual command line commands instead of these Boxen magic-one-liners.

class people::cido::osx {

  # Global
  # ======================================================

  # Disable press-and-hold for accented character entry
  include osx::global::disable_key_press_and_hold

  # Enables the keyboard for navigating controls in dialogs
  include osx::global::enable_keyboard_control_access

  # Expand the print dialog by default
  include osx::global::expand_print_dialog

  # Expand the save dialog by default
  include osx::global::expand_save_dialog

  # Disable remote control infrared receiver
  include osx::global::disable_remote_control_ir_receiver

  # Disables spelling autocorrection
  include osx::global::disable_autocorrect

  # Dock
  # ======================================================

  # Hide dock
  include osx::dock::autohide

  # Clear pinned dock icons
  include osx::dock::clear_dock

  # Finder
  # ======================================================

  # Unsets the hidden flag on ~/Library
  include osx::finder::unhide_library

  # Show hidden files
  include osx::finder::show_hidden_files

  boxen::osx_defaults { 'Show hidden files in Open/Save dialogs':
    user   => $::boxen_user,
    key    => 'AppleShowAllFiles',
    domain => 'NSGlobalDomain',
    value  => true;
  }

  # Mouse and keyboard
  # ======================================================

  # Set a more natural cursor size
  include osx::universal_access::cursor_size

  # Other
  # ======================================================

  # Disable the downloaded app quarantine
  include osx::disable_app_quarantine

  # Disable creation of .DS_Store files on network shares
  include osx::no_network_dsstores

}