My Mac Development Tools

Having recently set up 2 Macs for development, I kept a list of the tools I use and recommend. My workflow is oriented towards a command-line editor, tools, package managers, and minimal configuration.

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1. My Mac  Dev Env 2021
   October 2021
   
   Andrew Atkinson
   

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2. Hardware Setup
   Work Laptop and Personal Laptop
   Large high-resolution monitor
   4K scaled to 3360x1890 for readability and space
   Trackpad for multi-touch gestures
   

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3. Goals
   Keyboard and command-line oriented workflow including primary editor
   Open source, package managers, version managers
   Prefer longevity and customization for editor
   Prefer more "stock" for terminal
   

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4. Mac OS Spaces
   Spaces
   Activate with 3-fingers swipe up
   Create separate spaces for personal web browsing, email
   Navigate between them, 3-finger swipe left/right or ctrl-
   left/right
   

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5. dotfiles and Mac OS defaults
   my dotfiles
   Mac OS defaults
   Key repeat rate, Font smoothing, Disable sound effects, etc.
   rake dotfiles & rake os_x_defaults
   

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6. Browser tabs and windows
   Chrome
   Cluster - Window & Tab Manager
   Command-m - Window Manager. Delete, re-organize tabs. Combine
   windows.
   

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7. Terminals
   I use iTerm
   Other terminals:
   Terminator
   Kitty
   Alacritty
   

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8. Tmux
   Keyboard navigation of panes
   Book recommendation: tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development
   

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9. Window Management
   Magnet: Keyboard and mouse snapping, divide into more segments
   Rectangle
   Based on Spectacle!
   Spectacle: Keyboard management of segments of screen
   Amethyst
   

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10. Fish Shell
    https://fishshell.com/
    Works well out of the box
    Themes! Web-based configuration
    Oh My Fish - omf
    omf install boxfish
    fisher plugin manager
    

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11. Fish Shell rbenv
    Put this in ~/.config/fish/config.fish
    # rbenv support fish shell
    
    # https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv/issues/195
    
    set PATH $HOME/.rbenv/bin $PATH
    
    set PATH $HOME/.rbenv/shims $PATH
    
    rbenv rehash >/dev/null 2>&1
    
    

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12. Fish Shell Functions
    Bash
    
    dict () { open dict:///"$@" ; }
    Fish
    function dict
    
    open dict:///"$argv"
    
    end
    
    

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13. Fish Shell CDPATH
    I keep my source code in ~/Projects
    Setting CDPATH makes it easy as a destination
    In Bash
    
    export CDPATH=.:~/Projects
    In Fish
    set -g CDPATH . ~/Projects
    
    

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14. CLI programs tldr
    https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
    Like man pages - but just the examples!
    tldr curl
    tldr psql
    

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15. CLI programs jrnl
    https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl/
    Small journal entries
    Command examples and short notes
    Sync to Dropbox. Avoid sensitive information.
    jrnl
    jrnl --edit
    

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16. GitHub CLI
    https://cli.github.com/
    brew install gh
    Usages:
    gh ssh-key add
    gh pr create [flags] create PRs in terminal
    gh pr view --web pr_number
    

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17. GitHub
    T - fuzzy finder
    Command-K - omnibar
    

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18. Vim 8 Package Management
    mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/andyatkinson/start
    Git clone vim plugins to this directory
    ctags
    
    fzf.vim
    
    nerdtree
    
    tcomment_vim
    
    vim-distinguished
    
    vim-fugitive
    
    vim-rails
    
    vim-ripgrep
    
    vim-ruby
    
    

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19. Fuzzy Finder ( fzf )
    https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
    brew install fzf
    vim (fzf) (vim, fzf, fish shell)
    :FZF in Vim
    history | fzf
    

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20. ripgrep ( rg )
    https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
    Incredibly fast
    rg TODO app/models
    

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21. Misc!
    Itsycal - Menu bar calendar
    Jekyll - blog like a hacker
    Marp - slide deck like a hacker.
    Glow - render markdown in terminal
    

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