How Will sets up a Brand New Mac (cloned from https://gist.github.com/dmerrick/5275190)

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Will New Mac Runbook

How to get a Macbook operational general development. Also, take all those stupid icons off your dock.

Initial Setup

• Create account on the machine- don't copy over old settings or files
  • If asked to opt into iCloud sharing, don't.
• Check for software updates.

Get Mac Preferences just the way I like

• Change Scroll direction from Natural
  • System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Scroll & Zoom -> Scroll direction
• Turn off Trackpad Swipe with two fingers gesture
• Rebind Caps Lock to Control
  • System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Modifier Keys
• Check "Use F1, F2 as standard function keys"
• Remove everything from Dock except for Finder
• Add Hot Corner settings
  • System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> Hot Corners...
    • Bind Lower right corner to "Put Display to Sleep"
    • Bind Lower left corner to "Start Screen Saver"
• Have Screen Saver prompt for password immediately
  • System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General
    • Change Require password after sleep or screen saver begins to "Immediately"
• Turn on Night Shift on in Displays -> Night Shift or alternately use flux (see below)
• Turn on Dock Auto-hiding
  • System Preferences -> Dock
• In Finder:
  • Customize Toolbar and add "Path" to the toolbar.
  • Add your "Home", "Movies", and "Code" directories to the favorites sidebar
• In System Preferences -> Users & Groups -> Guest User disable "Allow guests to log into this computer"

Set up accounts

• Open Terminal
  • run homebrew install script
    • /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • install all basic apps needed to access other apps and use mac effectively.
    • brew cask install firefox iterm2 google-chrome
    • Launch Firefox and set Options -> Keep in Dock
      • sign in with firefox account
      • Make Gmail the default mail handler.
        • Go to Preferences and search for mailto and set Gmail as the default handler
    • install browser extensions if necessary

Set up basic computer usability

• brew install bash wget coreutils tmux node yarn
• brew install brew install github/gh/gh
• Open iTerm Preferences
  • set Options -> Keep in Dock
  • Open preferences and set Profiles->General->Working Directory->Reuse previous session's directory
  • Go to General->Selection and check both "Copy to Pasteboard on selection" and "Applications in terminal may access clipboard"
  • set default profile login command to /usr/local/bin/bash
    • In Terminal, go to Preferences -> Shells open with: and fill in /usr/local/bin/bash
    • echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
• Install apps needed for developing and doing teamwork on a Mac environment.
  • brew cask install spectacle slack resilio-sync

Set up development environment

• Generate a pubkey
  • ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -b 521
• Add this to the top of your ~/.ssh/config

TCPKeepAlive yes
ServerAliveInterval 60
forwardagent yes
Host *
    compression yes
    UseKeychain yes

• Upload this public key to github.
• Upload this public key to BitBucket (optional).
• If you have a passphrase on your private key you can add your private key to your keychain- it will prompt you for your passphrase.
  • ssh-add -K /path/to/private_key
• cd ~ && mkdir Code && cd Code
• Clone github dotfiles repo to ~/Code/dotfiles
  • symlink .vim/vimrc
• Set up resilio sync to sync your vimwiki to ~/vimwiki
• Configure apps
  • Launch slack and add all relevant accounts.

Clone and set up all repos for work/projects

• Clone all repos (Sourcetree makes this very easy if you have lots of them)
  • brew cask install sourcetree
  • You may need to symlink your generated pubkey to be accessible to SourceTree- it is expecting them in the location ~/.ssh/<username>-GitHub and ~/.ssh/<username>-GitHub.pub
• Install IDE tools
  • brew cask install jetbrains-toolbox visual-studio-code

Set up quality of life stuff

• brew cask install itsycal
  • itsycal is a nice way to have the current date displayed in the Mac upper righthand corner (it's weird that Mac doesn't do this by default).

Set up hardware

• Download latest printer software here.
• Plug in logitech unifying device and configure
  • brew tap homebrew/cask-drivers
  • brew cask install logitech-options
  • In the keyboard settings for the logitech keyboard, rebind Caps Lock to Escape
    • System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Modifier Keys
  • Launch Logitech Options
    • Check "Use F1, F2 as standard function keys"
  • Launch Spectacle and turn on accessibility settings
  • In mouse settings turn the Scrolling speed down to slow

Work specific stuff

Tunnel

• brew install ccrypt kustomize skaffold
• brew cask install tunnelblick docker -- this is docker desktop specifically

Set up recreational stuff

• brew cask install battle-net steam calibre plex-media-player vlc flux
  • Battle.Net and Steam are the two gaming platforms I use
  • Calibre is a formatter for eBooks
  • Plex is how I access all my media
  • VLC is how I play local media
  • Flux is like the built in Night Shift for OSX but I prefer Flux as it is more customizable.
• Things I'm trying out...
  • brew install bash-completion