Set Up a New Mac (July 2022 Edition)

Updated from three years ago: https://bluebones.net/2019/07/set-up-a-new-mac/

• Upgrade to latest OSX.
• Restore home directory from Backblaze. (Or at least dotfiles, .ssh dir, .vim dir, bin directory, ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 4/*, pwd.dsv.gpg, business, travel)
• Alfred (and give it Accessibility access, add license key).
• Dock: remove everything, hiding on, magnification on.
• Sublime Text 4 (add license key, set "trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true in sublime prefs, install Package Control, install Solarized Theme).
• subl commandline sublime.
  $ ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/u/bin/subl
• sublime-git-ignorer: (1) add Package Control repo https://github.com/apc999/sublime-text-gitignore (2)
  add package sublime-text-gitignore (3) use menu item : File->Exclude Git-ignored (4) Give this a keyboard shortcut in Sublime, Preferences, Key Bindings with { "keys": ["alt+shift+i"], "command": "exclude_ignored" }
• Install FiraCode and add it to Sublime Text prefs with "font_face": "Fira Code".
• Hide Desktop icons
  $ defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
$ killall Finder
• Solarized theme for Terminal and make default in preferences.
• “Use Option as Meta Key” in Terminal to make left Alt work as Esc.
• Use Ctrl-f7 or the Keyboard, Shortcuts in System Preferences to give Full Keyboard Access so that tab takes you to every button in a dialog, etc.
• Homebrew. (Installs OSX commandline tools.)
• brew install mariadb
• brew install npm
• brew install gimme-aws-creds
• brew install awscli
• brew install kubectl
• brew install sops
• brew install kubectx
• brew install apache2
• brew install php
• Discord.
• Change all .txt to open with Sublime Text.
• Show hidden files in Finder. Cmd-Shift-.
• WhatsApp.
• 1Password.
• Chrome. (Log in to Chrome to get uBlock Origin and other extensions.)
• Skitch.
• Backblaze.
• Parallels Desktop + MTGO
• npm install -g rtm-cli
• Disable Ask Siri in System Preferences, Siri +Remove Ask Siri from touchbar in System Preferences, Keyboard, Customize Touch Bar…
• Turn on “tap to click” in System Preferences, Trackpad.
• Disable long-press (it’s wayyyyy too annoying when selecting text in Chrome): defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• Zoom.
• Skype.
• PyCharm (and Solarized theme).
• GoLand (and Solarized theme).
• WebStorm (and Solarized theme).
• Spotify.