This guide helps me set up my macOS laptop in a fairly simple manner. I'll need to go back to this guide roughly every 2–3 years. Maybe it'll help you, too!
Use Karabiner Elements
Map Caps Lock to Ctrl (when long-pressed) or Escape (when tapped). See this guide
Use Karabiner Elements
adding the following entry in Simple Modification – For all devices –
non_us_backslash->grave_accent_and_titlde.
On a German keyboard, this changes caret key to produce the backtick/tilde characters, which is very frequently needed for coding and hard to reach when it's to the left to the Y/Z key.
Gotta go faster than the defaults
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 13
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1
You need to log out and log in again to make these settings take effect. source
Necessary
- iTerm2 with solarized theme
- apptivate
- spectacle - no longer maintained but it still works
Optional
- cleanshot X - screenshots that you can draw on. I didn't know I needed this! Best feature: you can OCR strings on your screen ("Capture Text")
The package manager for macOS that's not great but kinda works
Create the initial version of the Brewfile:
brew bundle dump
Re-install from scratch
brew bundle --force --cleanup
This distribution works best for me