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Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

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macOS 10.12 Sierra Setup

Custom recipe to get macOS 10.12 Sierra running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. This is very similar (and currently mostly the same) as my 10.11 El Capitan setup recipe and 10.10 Yosemite setup recipe. I am currently tweaking this for 10.12 Sierra and expect to refine this gist over the next few weeks.

I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. I generally reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between releases.

This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.

You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your o

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Create a bootable installer for macOS

The following instructions were predominantly sourced via this Apple Support Document.

With macOS, you can use a USB flash drive or other removable media as a startup disk from which to install macOS. These advanced steps are intended primarly for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line.

The final executable command(s) are found within Section III. Final macOS Executable Commands labled as Full Example or Full Example w/Options. I personally use the w/Options command which include both the --nointeraction and &&say Installation commands.

I. Overview

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Troubleshooting Mom's iPad Air & iTunes Issue

😠 Current Issue 😡

When connecting any apple provided USB (all ports affected) from Mom's iPad Air to her MacBook Pro the following issue happens.

The MacBook Pro will connect & disconnect to the iPad Air every second. Example: First connection to MBP is successful and iTunes (or any other .app for that matter) recognizes it. +01 seconds into the connection it disconnects the +02 seconds it reconnects. This pattern will continune until the USB is disconnected from the MBP.

==Impt Note== This does not occur and there are no issues when connecting her other iOS devices (iPhone 6 & iPad mini).

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

(set -x; brew update;)
(set -x; brew cask update;)

(set -x; brew cleanup;)
(set -x; brew cask cleanup;)

red=`tput setaf 1`
green=`tput setaf 2`

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Markdown and reStructuredText

GitHub supports several lightweight markup languages for documentation; the most popular ones (generally, not just at GitHub) are Markdown and reStructuredText. Markdown is sometimes considered easier to use, and is often preferred when the purpose is simply to generate HTML. On the other hand, reStructuredText is more extensible and powerful, with native support (not just embedded HTML) for tables, as well as things like automatic generation of tables of contents.

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echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

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#!/bin/sh

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

# Set the colours you can use
black='\033[0;30m'
white='\033[0;37m'
red='\033[0;31m'

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#!/bin/bash
#####################################################
# Name: Bash CheatSheet for Mac OSX
# 
# A little overlook of the Bash basics
#
# Usage:
#
# Author: J. Le Coupanec
# Date: 2014/11/04

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# There was a day where I have too many color schemes in iTerm2 and I want to remove them all.
# iTerm2 doesn't have "bulk remove" and it was literally painful to delete them one-by-one.

# iTerm2 save it's preference in ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist in a binary format
# What you need to do is basically copy that somewhere, convert to xml and remove color schemes in the xml files.

$ cd /tmp/
$ cp ~/Library/Preferences/com.googlecode.iterm2.plist .
$ plutil -convert xml1 com.googlecode.iterm2.plist
$ vi com.googlecode.iterm2.plist