Preferences

• Set system mode to dark mode
• Trackpad and mouse
  • Set speed
  • Set tap to click on trackpad
  • Enable secondary click on both
• Menubar
  • Show bluetooth
  • Show sound
  • Set to show battery percentage (surprisingly not straightforward)
• Finder
  • Remove tags from sidebar
  • Remove documents from shortcuts because I never use those
  • Always open in column view. Set to use groups by default.

Download utilities

• MonitorControl to control monitor brightness through software. Used to use Lunar but started having trouble with it.
• Spectacle for window management Spectacle is deprecated. Rectangle for window management
• KeepassXC for managing passwords - the only solution I trust
• Dropbox for syncing keepass db file in sync
• Signal for private chats
• Chrome for development
• Firefox for private browsing
• Slack and discord for personal groups
• Notion for note keeping
• Cleanshot for screenshots. The default one sucks. This is a paid product but worth it for me as I screenshot a lot when working remote.
• Hidden bar to hide menu bar icons when you have too many
• Maccy app for clipboard management. Helpful when I have something in the clipboard and copy something else by mistake.
• Keeping you awake for when you don't want your computer to sleep. Sometimes, on work machines, the sleep settings are managed by the company

Create accounts

• Create a new apple account using the work e-mail address so it's separate from personal stuff

Browser extensions

• JSONView to prettify JSON endpoints in the browser
• Simple modify headers to modify request headers

Dev specific

• NVM to manage node versions Volta for managing multiple versions of Node
• Install Node LTS through NVM volta and pin versions in any projects I am working on.
• Git, sometimes comes preinstalled
• Download and install IBM Plex Mono font family
  • Set font in iterm
  • Set font in vscode
  • Set terminal font in vscode
• Iterm + Oh my Zsh
  • Setup new tab to open in the same directory
  • Setup prompt to display full path using this link
  • The one theme for iterm
• VS Code - extensions synced through personal ID
  • One dark pro theme for VS Code
  • Hack the box theme for VS Code

Uses

At somepoint, I'll write up a /uses list with all my peripherals and preferences.