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post created: Mar 07, 2024

MacBook Pro Specification

  • 13-inch, 2020
  • 2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 512 GB SSD
  • Key Layout - QWERTY
  • macOS Sonoma 14.4

System Preferences

  • Appearance
    • Appearance - Light
    • Show scroll bars - Always (ugly I know)
  • Control Center
    • Battery - Show Percentage
    • Automatically hide and show the menu bar - Always
  • Siri & Spotlight
    • Ask Siri - Disable
    • Spotlight Search result - Disable all except
      • Applications
      • Calculator
      • Conversion
      • Definition
      • System Settings
  • Privacy & Security
    • FileVault - ON
  • Desktop & Dock
    • Position on screen
      • if a single monitor -> Left
      • Multiple monitors -> Bottom
    • Automatically hide and show the Dock - Enable
    • Animate opening applications - Disable
    • Show suggested and recent apps in Dock - Disable
    • Default web browser - Safari
  • Displays
    • Use as - More Space
  • Wallpaper
    • Slam Dunk
  • Battery
    • Low Power Mode - Only on Battery
  • Lock Screen
    • Start Screen Saver when inactive - For 20 minutes
    • Turn display off on battery when inactive - For 10 minutes
    • Turn display off on power adapter when inactive - For 30 minutes
    • Require password after screen saver begins or display is turned off - After 15 minutes
  • Touch ID & Password
    • Use Apple Watch to unlock you applications and your Mac - Enable
  • Keyboard
    • Text Input
      • Dvorak
      • Japanese - Romaji
      • 3-Set Korean (390)
    • Text Input Options
      • Correct spelling automatically - Disable
      • Capitalize words automatically - Disable
      • Add period with double-space - Disable
      • Use smart quotes and dashes - Disable
  • Trackpad
    • Point & Click
      • Tracking Speed - all the way to fast
      • Silent clicking - Enable
      • Force Click and haptic feedback - Disable
      • Tap to click - Enable
    • More Gestures
      • Notification center - Disable
  • Finder -> Settings
    • General
      • Show these items on the desktop: Disable All
      • New finder windows show: Home
    • Tags
      • Disable All
    • Sidebar
      • uncheck Recents
      • check Home
      • uncheck Shared iCloud
    • Advanced
      • Show all filename extensions - Enable
      • Remove items from the Trash after 30 Days - Enable
  • Sharing
    • Disable all sharing
    • Edit Local hostname
    • Also in terminal:
      • sudo scutil --set ComputerName "newname"
      • sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "newname"
      • sudo scutil --set HostName "newname"

System Preferences (Terminal)

Take screenshots as JPG

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg

Show hidden files

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Show path bar

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true

Show status bar

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true

Homebrew

Install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Update everything in Homebrew to recent version:

brew update
brew upgrade # if you have any outdated packages

Install GUI Applications

brew install --cask \
	bitwarden \
	figma \
	karabiner-elements \
	obsidian \
	nota \
	rectangle \
	spotify \
	gifski \
	obs \
	kitty

Install CLI Applications

brew install \
	bat \
	curl \
	fish \ # used for oh-my-fish
	fisher \
	git \
	git-lfs \
	gh \ # github CLI
	gpg \
	pinentry-mac \
	nvm \
	pnpm \
	neovim \
	tmux \
	ripgrep \ # used for telescope.nvim
	fd \ # used for telescope.nvim

Git & Git LFS

Configure the global user name and email:

git config --global user.name 'NAME'
git config --global user.email 'EMAIL'

Initiate LFS setting by installing it:

git lfs install
git lfs install --system # you may skip this

To process unicode file names:

git config --global core.precomposeunicode true

Backup previous SSH and GPG keys or create new ones.

Get the GPG key using gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long and set the global defaults to sign your commits.

git config --global user.signingkey <key>
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
git config --global gpg.program /usr/local/bin/gpg

You may need to run the following:

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
echo "pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac" > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
gpgconf --kill gpg-agent # restart the gpg service

Neovim

I'm using the kitty terminal.

Oh-My-Fish

Install Oh-My-Fish.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/master/bin/install | fish

Install packages and setup Node

Install packages using omf install:

omf install z nvm

Set the NVM directory

set -gx NVM_DIR (brew --prefix nvm)

Install the NVM plugin for Fisher

fisher install jorgebucaran/nvm.fish

Install and use Node

nvm install latest
nvm use latest
set --universal nvm_default_version latest

You may want to remove the conflicting Node versions:

which -a node
...
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/node

Install Theme and Fonts

Show all themes using omf theme:

omf theme

Available:
...
toaster

Install a theme toaster:

omf install toaster

If you need to uninstall it, run omf uninstall <THEME>

omf uninstall toaster # and reload the terminal

Install the Meslo Nerd Font:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew install font-meslo-lg-nerd-font

You can change the font from the configuration file: Settings or ⌘ + , on macOS. Find # font_family, un-comment it, and replace the monospace with MesloLGS Nerd Font Mono.

Set tmux as default

Open the configuration file: Settings or ⌘ + , on macOS.

Find # shell . and replace it with shell tmux.

Then configure tmux (~/.tmux.conf) to start with a fish shell.

set-option -g default-shell /usr/local/bin/fish

Configure Fish shell's greeting message

set fish_greeting 'Happy Coding ヾ(*´ ∇ `)ﾉ'

Install LazyVim

Make a back up of your current neovim files.

# required
mv ~/.config/nvim{,.bak}

#optional; you can delete it instead of backing it if you want
mv ~/.local/share/nvim{,.bak}
mv ~/.local/state/nvim{,.bak}
mv ~/.cache/nvim{,.bak}

Install it.

git clone https://github.com/LazyVim/starter ~/.config/nvim
rm -rf ~/.config/nvim/.git
nvim

When you first launch nvim, it will install lazy vim and its plugins.

If you have your neovim setup template/backups, copy and/or replace files in ~/.config/nvim/lua.

I saved my current setups in a private repository in github.

Configure aliases

Create a file aliases.fish inside ~/.config/fish/conf.d.

alias vim='nvim'
alias cat='bat'

Add another aliases for git, git_aliases.fish.

# ~/.config/fish/conf.d/git_aliases.fish

alias g='git'
alias gd='git diff'
alias gst='git status'

alias ga='git add'
alias gaa='git add --all'
alias gcmsg='git commit -m'

alias gl='git pull'
alias gll='git pull origin (current_branch)'
alias gp='git push'
alias gpp='git push origin (current_branch)'
alias gpf='git push -f origin (current_branch)'

alias gco='git checkout'
alias gs='git switch' # switch branch
alias gsp='git switch -' #switch back to previous branch
alias gsm='git switch main'

alias gb='git branch'
alias gba='git branch -a'

alias gcount='git shortlog -sn'
alias glo='git log --oneline'
alias gloga='git log --oneline --graph --all'

alias gwc='git whatchanged'
alias gwcp='git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty=medium'

alias gr='git restore --staged' # unstage changes; git reset file
alias grd='git restore --staged --worktree' # unstage and discard changes; git checkout file
alias gsundo='git reset --soft HEAD~1'
alias ghundo='git reset --hard HEAD~1'

alias gwa='git worktree add'
alias gwr='git worktree remove'
alias gwl='git worktree list'

alias gbs='git bisect start'
alias gbb='git bisect bad'
alias gbg='git bisect good'

function current_branch
    set ref (git symbolic-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null); or set ref (git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null); or return
    echo $ref | sed -e 's|^refs/heads/||'
end

Source two alias files or restart the terminal.

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