thhuang / mac-setup

This is how I set up my MacBook!

Mac Setup

System Preferences

• Dock & Menu Bar
  • Dock Size: smaller
  • [Check] Automatically hide and show the Dock
  • [Check] Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop
  • [Check] Automatically hide and show the menu bar on full screen
• Keyboard
  • Keyboard
    • Key Repeat: fast
    • Delay Until Repeat: short
  • Input Sources
    • Add
      • ABC
      • Zhuyin - Traditional
    • Settings
      • [Uncheck] Use the 中/英 key to switch to and from ABC
  • Shortcuts > Input Sources
    • [Uncheck] Select the previous import source ^Space
• Trackpad > Point & Click
  • [Check] Tap to click

Applications

• Chrome
• Xcode
• Grammarly
• Homebrew

Fonts

• Fira Code, Hack Nerd Font, Meslo Nerd Font, and Lato

  brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
  brew install --cask font-fira-code font-hack-nerd-font font-meslo-lg-nerd-font font-lato

Terminal Settings

• iTerm2

  brew install --cask iterm2

• Preferences > Profiles > Text > Font

  • MesloLGS Nerd Font Mono
  • Regular
  • 14
  • 100
  • 100

• Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Color Presets

  • Download color schemes
    • Tokyonight - Night
    • Neutron
      • Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Color Presets > ANSI Colors > Black > Normal: 30% Gray
      • Preferences > Profiles > Colors > Color Presets > ANSI Colors > Black > Bright: 40% Gray

• Preferences > Profiles > Session

  • [Check] Status bar enabled
  • Configure Status Bar
    • Active Components
      • CPU Utilization
      • Memory Utilization
      • Network Throughput
    • Auto-Rainbow: Light Colors

• Preferences > Profiles > Keys

  • Left Option key: Esc+

• Z shell (if zsh is not the default shell)

  chsh -s /bin/zsh

• Zim

  curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zimfw/install/master/install.zsh | zsh

• Powerlevel10k

  echo '\n# -------\n# thhuang\n# -------\nzmodule romkatv/powerlevel10k --use degit\n' >> ~/.zimrc
  zimfw install
  
  # configuration wizard
  p10k configure
  
  # configuration file
  vi ~/.p10k.zsh

• Pass the bad match onto the command

  echo '\nsetopt no_nomatch # use the command as is when pattern matching fails' >> ~/.zshrc

Command Line Tools

• cmake

  brew install cmake

• wget

  brew install wget

• htop

  brew install htop

• ncdu

  brew install ncdu

• tree

  brew install tree

• ripgrep

  brew install ripgrep

• git
  • Connect to GitHub with SSH
  • Config

    git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"

• lazygit

  brew install lazygit

• xcode command line tools

  xcode-select --install

• neovim

  brew install neovim

Programming Language Runtimes

• Go
  • Download the binary release and untar it
  • Move the go folder into ~/Development/libraries/

    mv ~/Downloads/go ~/Development/libraries/.

• Lua
  • Formatter: stylua

    brew install stylua

• NVM, Node.js, NPM, & Yarn

  echo 'zmodule lukechilds/zsh-nvm\n' >> ~/.zimrc
  zimfw install
  nvm install node
  nvm use node
  npm install -g npm
  npm install -g yarn
  npm install -g prettier

• Rust

  curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

neovim

Soft link .config/nvim to ~/.config/nvim

• Language Server Protocol
  • C++: clangd

    brew install clang-format

  • Go: gopls
  • JSON: jsonls
  • Lua: sumneko_lua
  • Python: pyright
  • Rust: rust_analyzer