 My Macos Setup

General Apps

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• Floorp Browser
  • Install Bypass Paywalls
• Arc Browser
• Google Drive Client
• Obsidian - Note Taking App
• StrongBox - Password Manager
• Tutanota - Email Client
• List of Wonderful Apps Waiting to Be Explored!

Pre-requisites

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Package Manager

• Brew
• NPM
• Pipx

Terminal & Shell Setup

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• Install FiraCode Nerd Font
• ZSH - Shell
• ohmyzsh - Shell Enhancement
• Termius - Terminal GUI
  • Modify Default Shell
  • Your Termius configuration page should look something like the following picture

Terminal Productivity Tools

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Display of Icons

Make sure you install one of the Nerd Fonts to have icons display correctly inside your terminal

• eza - ls replacement
• xcp - cp replacement
• zoxide - cd replacement
• bat - cat replacement
• q - dig replacement
• Atuin - history replacement
• joshuto - Terminal File Manager
• dua - Disk Usage Analyser
• brew install btop - htop/top replacement
• fastfetch

brew install fastfetch
# Add the following to the start of .zshrc
fastfetch --logo <ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_LOGO_FILE> --logo-width 70 --logo-height 30 --logo-type iterm

• stow

brew install stow

Others

• brew install watch
• Custom bash commands (to be added to .zshrc)

# cht.sh shortcut
h() {
	curl cht.sh/$1
}

Programming Language Setup

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• Python Toolset
• JS Toolset
• Rust Toolset
• Go
• npm i -g typescript
• brew install elixir - Install elixir with Brew
• Java JDK

Software Engineering Tools

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• Neovim
• Code Editor Setup
• GitKraken - Git GUI Tool
• Postman - API Testing Tool
• MySQL Workbench
• jq
• brew install socat
• brew install hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool
• brew install --cask dbeaver-community - Open-source DB viewer
• gh

#!/bin/bash
brew install gh
gh auth login # Painless Github CLi Auth
 

• Bandwhich

Virtualisation Tools

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• Docker Installation
• Vagrant
• QEMU

DevOps Tools

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• Cloudflare CLI
• cloudflared
• Ngrok
• brew install terraform
• brew install azure-cli
• brew install infracost
• brew install terraform-docs
• Obtain a ssh shell into ECS on local machine
• Update parameters in AWS Parameter Store in a semi automated way
• AWS Nuke
• aws

#!/bin/bash
brew install awscli
echo >> ~/.zshrc
echo "# AWS Cli Env Variables" >> ~/.zshrc
echo "export AWS_PROFILE=<DEFAULT_PROFILE_NAME>" >> ~/.zshrc
echo "export AWS_REGION=ap-southeast-1" >> ~/.zshrc
echo >> ~/.zshrc
aws configure # Auth CLi

• pipx install checkov
• pipx install ddtrace

Hardware Tools

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• rpi-imager
• arduino ide

MISC

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• wireguard
• ipython
• brew install --cask logisim-evolution - circuit design software
• telnet
• brew install parallel

#!/bin/bash
brew install wireguard-tools# Place conf in /usr/local/etc/wireguard/ 
sudo wg-quick up wg0 # Connect Wireguard
 
brew install ipython
 
 
brew install telnet

OS Config

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• Add Geist Font
  • Drag and drop the installed font to built-in app Font Book
• Add Chinese Input
• Change Hostname

#!/bin/bash
sudo scutil --set HostName mac
sudo scutil --set LocalHostName mac

• Change the VSC Terminal font size to 16 in the setting page

Cheatsheet

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• Command used to give unverified app permissions to execute - xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine/Applications/<APP_NAME>.app
• Terminal Cli Navigation Shortcut
• Remove an app from system entirely