MacOS Setup

Docking Station

• Remove all unnacessary/not often used apps

System Settings

Open System Settings... under Apple's icon and make the following changes:

• Desktop & Dock
  • Dock
    • Resize dock
    • Minimize windows into application icon : uncheck
    • Show indicators for open applications : check
    • Show suggestede and recent apps in Dock : uncheck
  • Widgets
    • Show Widgets
      • On Desktop : uncheck
• Keyboard
  • Key repeat rate : set to fastest value
  • Delay until repeat : set to shortest value
• Trackpag
  • Point & Click
    • Secondary click : Click in Bottom Right Corder
  • Scroll & Zoom
    • Natural scrolling: uncheck

Finder

Open Finder in your docking station and make the following changes:

• Settings
  • General
    • Show these items on the Desktop : uncheck everything
    • New Finder windows show : select home folder
    • Open folders in tabs instead of new windows : check
  • Tags : uncheck everything
  • Sidebar
    • uncheck folders you don't want to show
    • drag home folder to the top of the list (using finder window)
  • Advanced
    • Show all filename extentions : check
    • Show warning before changing an extension : uncheck
• View
  • Set as List
  • Toggle Show Status Bar
  • Toggle Show Path Bar

Google Chrome

Install and set Google Chrome as the default browser.

Homebrew

Install homebrew by following the steps at brew.sh.

Terminal

Install iterm2 terminal.

brew install --cask iterm2

Install font dependency.

brew search nerd-font
brew search nerd-font | grep caskaydia 
brew install font-caskaydia-cove-nerd-font

Set Window arrangement when opening terminal:

• Open "Window" on very top bar
  • click on "Save window arrangement"
  • open "Arrangements" in iterm profile
  • choose arrangement you have just saved
  • instructions below will show how to use this setting

Make the following settings changes:

• Settings
  • General
    • Startup
      • Window restoration policy : Open Default Window Arrangement
      • Uncheck everything else
    • Closing
      • Quit when all windows are closed : check
      • Uncheck everything else
  • Appearance
    • General
      • Theme : Minimal
    • Windows
      • Hide scrollbars : check
      • Show line under title bar when the tab bar is not visible : check
      • Uncheck everything else
    • Tabs
      • Show tab bar even when there is only one tab : check
      • Show tab numbers : uncheck
      • Stretch tabs to fill bar : uncheck
  • Profiles
    • General
      • Window Directory : Reuse previous session's directory
    • Colors
      • Use different colors for light mode and dark mode : uncheck
      • Color Presets
        • Download cyberdream.itermcolors file from this repo and set/import as your color theme
      • Minimum Contrast
        • If planning on using transparent background, might need to play with this value i.e. 50
    • Text
      • Font : CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font Mono
      • Font weight : Regular
      • Font size: 17
      • Line height (n/n) : 127
    • Window
      • Add background image
      • Blending : 20 (play with value based on backgound image)
      • Use transparency : check
    • Terminal
      • Show mark indicators : uncheck
    • Keys
      • Key Mappings
        • Presets... : Natural text editing
          • This allows to jump words in cli using CMD
          • You can still go to next/prev tab using CMD + Shift + [

Prevent login message every time you open a terminal by creating a .hushlogin file at your home dir:

touch ~/.hushlogin

zsh

Install plugins.

brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
brew install zsh-autosuggestions

Activate plugins by adding the following to ~/.zshrc file:

# Activate syntax-highlighting.
source $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh

# Active autosuggestions.
source $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

Oh My Zsh

1. Install ohmyzsh by following the steps at ohmyzsh.

2. Create the following file theme under ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/dylan.zsh-theme file:

ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX=" on %{$fg[magenta]%}"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="%{$reset_color%}"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="%{$fg[red]%}!"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_UNTRACKED="%{$fg[green]%}?"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN=""

PROMPT='
%{$fg[green]%}%~%{$reset_color%}$(git_prompt_info) %{$reset_color%}
$ '%

3. Set the following lines in your ~/.zshrc file:

# Set name of the theme to load.
ZSH_THEME="dylan"

4. Source file source ~/.zshrc.

Git

1. Instal git cli.

brew install git

2. Set configs.

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

3. Setup SSH keys.

# https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
chmod 600 __PUBLIC_KEY__

4. Add the following content to your ~/.ssh/config file:

touch ~/.ssh/config
Host github.com
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

5. Add ssh key to use apple keychain.

ssh-add --apple-use-keychain ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

6. Add public SSH key to Github by following steps in adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account.

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

NOTE if you get a prompt for username and password when running git commands, don't enter your password, but the token you have created some time in the past. Otherwise, create a new token.

VSCode

Install vscode text editor.

brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Add code command to your path by clicking Cmd + Shift + p and type shell command: install code command to path.

Set the minimal settings.

{
    "editor.fontSize": 16,
    "editor.lineHeight": 1.7,
    "editor.fontFamily": "'CaskaydiaCove Nerd Font', Menlo, Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace",
}

NodeJS Install

Check docs at nvm for installation steps.

Helpful commands.

# Install node latest version
nvm install __VERSION__

# Check node install
node -v

# Check npm install
npm -v

# If needing to upgrade npm, run latest
npm install -g npm

Go Install

Follow steps at go.dev.