Set Up a New Mac (August 2023 Edition)

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 and brew 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