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
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
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
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
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
6. Browser tabs and windows Chrome Cluster - Window & Tab Manager Command-m - Window Manager. Delete, re-organize tabs. Combine windows.
7. Terminals I use iTerm Other terminals: Terminator Kitty Alacritty
8. Tmux Keyboard navigation of panes Book recommendation: tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development
9. Window Management Magnet: Keyboard and mouse snapping, divide into more segments Rectangle Based on Spectacle! Spectacle: Keyboard management of segments of screen Amethyst
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
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 $PATH rbenv rehash >/dev/null 2>&1
12. Fish Shell Functions Bash dict () { open dict:///"$@" ; } Fish function dict open dict:///"$argv" end
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
14. CLI programs tldr https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr Like man pages - but just the examples! tldr curl tldr psql
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
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
17. GitHub T - fuzzy finder Command-K - omnibar
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
19. Fuzzy Finder ( fzf ) https://github.com/junegunn/fzf brew install fzf vim (fzf) (vim, fzf, fish shell) :FZF in Vim history | fzf
20. ripgrep ( rg ) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep Incredibly fast rg TODO app/models
21. Misc! Itsycal - Menu bar calendar Jekyll - blog like a hacker Marp - slide deck like a hacker. Glow - render markdown in terminal