Mac

Settings and Preferences

Check Clock Timezone

Check For OS Updates

System Preferences

General

• Show scroll bars: always
• Automatically hide and show the menu bar: false
• Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the spot that's clicked

Dock

• Magnification: off
• Position: right
• Show recent applications in Dock: false

Keyboard

• F keys
• Modifier keys (for external keyboard)
• Remove all auto text corrections
• Key repeat: fast
• Delay till repeat: short

Mouse

See image

Sound

• Show sound in menu bar - always
• Play sound on startup - false

Finder

Preferences

• General
  • New Finder windows show: User Home
• Sidebar
  • uncheck All My Files
  • check MB User Home and Root
• Advanced
  • Show all filename extensions

View

• Show Tab Bar
• Show Path Bar
• Show Status Bar

Settings

• Show View Options
  • Always open in column view
• Show dotfiles

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

• Disable Dashboard

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean true
killall Dock

Applications

• Browsers
  • Chrome
  • Chrome Canary
  • Firefox
  • Opera
  • Safari
  • Brave
• IntelliJ
• Visual Studio Code
• Slack
  • Chrome extension: Neutral Face Emoji Tools
• SourceTree/GitHub Desktop
• Evernote
• Spectacle
  • Preferences
    • Login at startup
• iTerm2
• Docker
• Jolt

Spotlight

Privacy -> add repos to search ignore list

XCode

(This also installs git.)

xcode-select --install

First click "Get XCode" button, then after downloading and installing from apple store, run the above command again and click "Install".

sudo xcodebuild -license accept

HomeBrew

• https://brew.sh/

% brew install node

yarn: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44448084/how-do-i-change-the-version-of-yarn-used/53678671

% brew install yarn

ZShell

• Install zsh: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH
• Install oh-my-zsh: https://ohmyz.sh/
• Install theme: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k#installation (do Oh My Zsh install)
• Plugin Autosuggestions: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/INSTALL.md#oh-my-zsh
• Plugin Syntax Highlighting: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/INSTALL.md#oh-my-zsh
• Iterm2 Profile Config:
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42735929/how-to-delete-a-word-in-iterm-in-mac-os

dotfiles

• Create folder Sites in home directory for server
• Clone this repo
• Copy over dotfiles

Hotkey Cmd + Shift + .

Npm

removing node: https://github.com/brock/node-reinstall

% npm install -g n
% npm install -g bunyan
% npm install -g http-server

Setup n permissions: tj/n#416 (comment)

% n lts

Tools

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/ jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

If spotlight isn't working run:

sudo mdutil -E /

Windows

Mouse Scrolling

Open PowerShell as administrator

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 1 }

Choco

• Install: https://chocolatey.org/

% choco install nodejs
% choco install git

cmdr

Setup

net use Z: "\\Mac\Home\" /persistent:yes