Setup mac

General settings

• general -> dark mode
• trackpad -> tap to click, increase tracking speed, turn off force click
• edit the menu bar
  • show battery percentage in the menu bar
  • hide spotlight search
• turn off hot corners
• system preferences -> view -> in alphabetical order
• edit widgets, remove all except screen usage and calendar
• bluetooth > show in menu bar
• remove unnecessary apps including downloads, but leave system preferences
• enable automatically hide and show dock
• disable "show recent applications in Dock"

Finder preferences

• general -> change default finder window
• sidebar
  • turn off recents
  • turn off recent tags
  • turn off icloud drive
  • turn on home folder
• advanced
  • show all filename extensions
• view
  • show path bar
• change all to show items as list

Menu bar preferences

• battery -> show percentage
• now playing -> don't show in menu bar
• hide zoom from menu bar

Keyboard shortcuts

• remove "omw" from text
• shortcuts > launchpad & dock > toggle "dock hiding on/off" in shortcuts -> launchpad & dock
• uses raycast for windows and hotkeys

Apps

Core

• Chat: Discord
• Browser: Brave
• Editors: vscode and vscodium (for hotkey switching between these), one is for notes one is for code
• Input format: osprette mx keyboard + vim keybindings (qwerty pleb but looking at hands down layout)
• Terminal: wezterm + zellij
• navigation: raycast
• music: spotify
• meetings: zoom, discord
• docker: docker desktop

Configure Brave

• Set the search engine to Google
• Customize new tab page
• Turn off "offer to save passwords" and "auto sign in"
• Import bookmarks

Setup VS code

• user settings: turn off enable persistent sessions integrated terminal
• user settings: set fish path in integrated.profiles.osx and select as default profile
• user settings: hide minimap
• copy keybindings.json and settings.json
• remove keybinding for "close open window"

VScode extensions

• Peacock
• GitLens -> and configure
• Dendron
• Fish
  • set fish path in settings to /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
• Copilot (stable)
• Prettier
• ESLint
• New (wenfangdu.faster-new)
• Material icon theme
• Thunder Client

Setup terminal / shell

1. Install xcode command line tools by entering git in the terminal, and following the prompts
2. Install caskaydiacove code font
3. Install Homebrew
4. Install fish and add homebrew to path
   1. /opt/homebrew/bin/brew install fish
   2. fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/bin/
5. brew install starship
6. brew install zellij
7. fish_add_path /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin (add vscode to path) see [[reference.shell]] for more
8. install fisher
9. install nvm (TODO: use pnpm instead)
10. npm install -g pnpm install pnpm

Copy over config files

1. ~/.config/zellij/config.yaml
2. ~/.config/fish/config.fish
3. vscode keybindings
4. vscode user settings

TODO chezmoi