Steps for configuring a fresh install of macOS.
Open System Preferences and nvaigate to Mission Control. Deselect the checkbox labeled Automatically rearrance Spaces based on most recent use.
Open System Preferences and navigate to Accessibility. Select Mouse & Trackpad on the left side and click the Trackpad Options... button. Select the checkbox for Enable dragging and set the dropdown to three finger drag.
Open System Preferences and navigate to Trackpad. Set the dropdown under Look up & data detectors to Tap with three fingers.
Open Finder and open Preferences. Navigate to advanced and select the checkbox Show all filename extensions.
Open Terminal and open Preferences. Select Profiles and then Shell. Set the When the shell exits dropdown to be Close if the shell exited cleanly.
Open TextEdit and open Preferences. Select the radio button for Plain text.
On your phone go to the Settings app and navigate to Messages. Select Text Message Forwarding and enable it for the desired computers.
Open iTunes and open Preferences. Navigate to Devices and select the checkbox shown below.
Instructions here.
Install GNU's readlink (greadlink), etc.
brew install coreutils
brew install python3
Installation instructions are here.
Run the following command before opening the GUI for the first time.
rm .config/octave/qt-settings
https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/SSHFS
If there are issues with DNS while on the work VPN then open System Preferences and navigate to Network. Select Advanced and navigate to DNS. Set the DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 as displayed below.
Alias Filemerge to Applications so that it's easy to access.
cd /Applications/
ln -s Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/FileMerge.app/ .Follow this guide.