Previously:
July 2019,
July 2022
- Upgrade to latest OSX.
- Restore u directory from Backblaze backup. Restore dotfiles, .ssh dir, .vim dir, maybe other dot directories from Backblaze backup. Restore ~/Library/Application Support/Alfred 4/*.
- Alfred (and give it Accessibility access, add license key).
- Set new hostname with:
# Respectively, fully-qualified hostname, Bonjour hostname, the user-friendly computer name you see in Finder, flush the DNS cache … $ sudo scutil --set HostName agrajag.bluebones.net $ sudo scutil --set LocalHostName agrajag $ sudo scutil --set ComputerName agrajag $ dscacheutil -flushcache
- 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": ["super+shift+i"], "command": "exclude_ignored" }
- Keyboard shortcut to toggle word wrap in Sublime Text. Preferences, Key Bindings
{ "keys": ["super+shift+w"], "command": "toggle_setting", "args": { "setting": "word_wrap" } }
- 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.
- Terminal, Settings, Advanced, un-check “Audible bell” and “Only when sound is muted”
- System Preferences, Sound, turn “Alert volume” all the way down
- Use Ctrl-f7 to enable keyboard navigation of dialogs
- Homebrew. (Installs OSX commandline tools.)
brew install mariadb
brew install npm
brew install apache2
. Docker Desktop (below) uses port 8080 so edit/opt/homebrew/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
to use port 8081 and remember that you did it.brew install php
. Enable in Apache with LoadModule, FilesMatch and DirectoryIndex directives as per homebrew output andbrew services restart apache2
.brew install gh
brew install composer
- Docker Desktop.
- 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
- 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.
- IntelliJ IDEs for languages that you’re currently using from the list below. Install Solarized theme and switch to Fira Code as editor font for each.
- PyCharm.
- GoLand.
- WebStorm.
- PHPStorm.
- Spotify.
- Slack.
git clone
important repos (ff, pd, server)- Restore any local databases for dev (ff, decksite, logsite)
ln -s ~/ff/src/www /opt/homebrew/var/www/ff
GRANT ALL ON ff.* TO ff@localhost IDENTIFIED BY *REDACTED*
- pd setup