ahmet’s macOS Setup

Download Xcode

For google, go/xcode. This will take a lot of time, so start with this.

OS Settings

TODO: find defaults write commands for these.

Invert Trackpad Scroll Direction to non-natural.
Show battery percentage on menu bar.
Show date on menu bar.
Keyboard → Text → Uncheck autocorrect and such settings.
Remove useless items from the Dock.
Move Dock to right, make it smaller.
Drag Downloads folder next to the Trash on the Dock.
- Right Click → Sort by Date Added.
Show Path Bar on Finder.
Move $HOME folder to Finder sidebar.
Set shortcuts
- Accessibility: Invert colors: Cmd+Shift+I
- Screenshots:
  - Uncheck all
  - Save selected area to file: Cmd+Shift+4
  - Save selected area to clipboard: Cmd+Shift+2
Hot Corners:
- Top-left: Put Display to Sleep
- Clear other corners

Tweaks:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always" # show scrollbar always
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true   # Show hidden files
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true # Show Finder statusbar

# Default Finder location is the home folder
defaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTarget -string "PfLo" && \
  defaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTargetPath -string "file://${HOME}"

chflags nohidden ~/Library                               # Unhide ~/Library

# disable smart quotes and dashes
defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled 0
defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled 0
defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled 0

Shell

Install oh-my-zsh: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

Package manager

Install Homebrew —to $HOME/.homebrew instead of /usr/local:

git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git $HOME/.homebrew

Run which brew to confirm the one in home directory is picked up.
Run brew analytics off

Installing software manually

Download Dropbox
- Sign in
- Sync only 1Password
Download iPassword 6
- Choose .opvault file from Dropbox
- Go to Software Licenses → open the 1Password license file
- Accept to use 1Password Mini when prompted

Installing software via Homebrew

All software installed on the system must be listed in .Brewfile. This is symlinked at ~/.Brewfile and used by brew bundle.

To install all the software, add it to .Brewfile and run:

brew bundle --global

Some stuff will take long, in that case, identify which packages and update .Brewfile to install them with args: ['force-bottle'] or do a one-off brew install --force-bottle [pkg] install.

Some things that require manual installation after Homebrew:

# if pip requires sudo, something is wrong, because the
# Homebrew bundle should install a $USER-writable over system-python.
    
pip install virtualenv
pip install virtualenvwrapper

Post-Installation Configuration

Rectangle
- Security->Accessibility: Give access
- Launch at Login
Clipy
- Launch at Login
- Hide from Menu Bar
- Set history size to 200
- Set paste key to Cmd+Shift+V
fzf completion scripts:
```
"$HOMEBREW_PREFIX"/opt/fzf/install
```

minikube xhyve driver:

# minikube uses xhyve, which requires privileged access to the hypervisor
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve

Settings Sync

Clone this repo and run install_symlinks.sh
- Open a new terminal to take effect.
iTerm2->Preferences->Load Preferences From: com.googlecode.iterm2.plist directory.
- Restart iTerm2.
VSCode:
- Install "Settings Sync" extension and reload.
- Run '> Sync: Download Settings'
- Enter gist ID in vscode.sync file to prompt.
- Once extensions are installed 'Reload' (or Restart)
- Run '> Sync: Update/Upload Settings'
- Create a token with 'gist' permissions and save it to the prompt
- Wait for the Sync Summary.

Hardware

Evoluent ergo mouse driver: https://evoluent.com/support/download/
Das Keyboard
- Settings → Keyboard → Modifier Keys: flip the Option/Command keys for "daskeyboard" profile.

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