New Mac setup notes

New-Mac-setup.md

Mac setup

System prefs

• upper left corner hot corner turns on screensaver
• single press for a click
• turn off scroll direction natural
• speed up key repeat
• Keyboard - text
  • turn off correct spelling automatically, capitalize words automatically, touch bar typing suggestions, use smart quotes and dashes
• shortcuts
  • Mission control = option + S
  • show dashboard = option + 0
  • move left a space = option + command + J
  • move right a space = option + command + L
  • switch to desktop 1 = option + 1 (repeat for additional desktops)
• Mission control
  • turn off automatically rearrange spaces, displays have separate spaces
• Dock & Menu Bar
  • select Automatically hide and show the dock

Install apps

• Sublime
• Slack
• iTerm2
• IntelliJ / Goland
• Flycut
• Trello
• Homebrew
• Slate / alternative window manager
  • https://github.com/mattr-/slate
  • https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
• Docker for Mac (set max memory to 4GB)
• 1Password
• Karabiner
• Amphetamine (Caffeine alternative)

Configure apps

• setup Sublime shortcuts, key bindings
  • https://gist.github.com/davidkuster/8852939
  • https://gist.github.com/davidkuster/8852887
• setup IntelliJ shortcuts
• setup Slate shortcuts
  • https://gist.github.com/davidkuster/de9f745679a4b8f167ad
• Calender
  • Week starts on Monday

CLI setup

• Bash profile / aliases setup
• Git prompt script
• Brew (https://brew.sh/)
• Pip (sudo easy_install pip)
• AWS CLI (pip install awscli)
• JDK
• SDKMAN
• Groovy (sdk install groovy)

Apps to install via brew (brew install ...)

• adr-tools
• git
• go
• graphviz
• httpie
• jq
• maven
• postgresql
• prometheus
• ripgrep
• shellcheck
• telnet
• watch
• yq

Access

• Slack
• Git repo(s)
• JIRA(s)
• email
• VPN

Dir setup

• mkdir ~/opt/scripts
• mkdir ~/data
• mkdir ~/workspace