My personal installation script for a new computer.
Note, this sets up an extremely opinionated and highly personalized installation, with my preferences and dotfiles. Please adjust as needed!
My dotfile repo is currently private, but I plan on creating a public repo before the end of the year.
These apps need to be configured manually.
For OSX settings, I'm still looking for the command line way to change this preference.
Checked:
- Reverse Scrolling
- Reverse vertical
- Reverse horizontal
- Reverse Mouse
Unchecked:
- Reverse Trackpad
Checked:
- Start at login
Unchecked:
- Show in menu bar
- Iterm2 -> Preferences -> General
- Check: Load preferences from custom folder /Users/nina/dotfiles/iterm-profiles
- Check: Save changes to folder when Iterm2 quits
Users & Groups
- make sure guest account is turned off
Keyboard
- Use F1, F2 as standard function keys: ON
- Turn off spotlight (use Alfred instead)
- Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Spotlight -> Deselect all
- Customize control strip -> Delete siri from touchbar
- Touch Bar Shows -> F1, F2, etc. Keys
General
- Recent items: None
- Appearance: Graphite
- Highlight color: Pink
Mission Control
- Dashboard: As Overlay
Desktop & Screen Saver
- Screensaver
- Hot Corners
- Top right -> Dashboard
- Bottom right -> Start screen saver
- Hot Corners
Trackpad
- Tap to click: ON
- Secondary click: ON
Security & Privacy
- Firewall -> on
- Firewall options -> Enable stealth mode
- FileVault -> Turn On FileVault (encrypt harddrive)
Sharing
- Ensure everything is unchecked
Finder Preferences
- General
- New finder window show: home folder
- Sidebar
- Show home, remove Recents
- Advanced
- Show all filename extensions: ON
- Show warning before changing an extension: OFF
- Show warning before emptying the trash: OFF
TrackPad
- Point & Click
- Silent clicking -> On
- Sign into chrome to sync profile & bookmarks
- Chrome -> Warn before quitting: ON
- Set Double Cmd to Alfred hotkey
- configure license
- settings -> automatically start at login
- Simple Modifications
- From key caps_lock to key left_control (Remap caps lock to control for emacs)
- From key right_control to key
b
(custom setting for my ergonomic keyboard)
- Devices
- For all devices -> Caps Lock LED Check Manipulate LED
- Preferences -> Additional Boards Manager URLS -> https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json
- Tools -> Board -> Board Manager. Install:
- Arduino SAMD Boards
- Adafruit AVR Boards
- Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries. Install:
- Adafruit NeoPixel
- FastLED
- Download
- docs for:
- python2
- python3
- django
- flask
- arduino
- processing
- man pages
- cheatsheets for:
- emacs
- git
- python debugger
- python unittest assertions
- log into freenode
Useful shipping status tracker widget
Apps:
- Send to kindle for Mac
- Delivery Status Dashboard Widget
- Flip Clock Screensaver
- FlyCut Clipboard Manager
- Visit this page to opt out of ads (turn off adblock first)
- Configure touchbar?
- Set up wallpaper
- osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to set desktop picture to "/Users/wilsonmar/Pictures/wallpapers/macOS-High-Sierra-Wallpaper-2880x1494.jpg" as POSIX file'
- Set up alfred powerpack