installing new software from scratch on OSX and new habits in my brain

prehensile / freshstart

documenting the process of setting up a fresh development mac

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installing new software from scratch on OSX and new habits in my brain #1

Open prehensile opened 9 years ago

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed homebrew

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed zsh & oh-my-zsh

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed rbenv from homebrew.

pay attention to the slightly misleadingly-titled section of the docs Basic Github checkout: the extra path & rbenv init lines need adding however rbenv is installed.
also, in zsh, the rbenv init line needs tweaking as per this issue

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed Spectacle for window management, tweaked shortcuts not to clash with tab control in Chrome

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installed iTerm 2

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Installed Chrome & Firefox

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installed Sublime Text 2, Sublime Package Control & SublimeCodeIntel

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed VirtualBox

set up two network adapters: NAT (for internet) and host-only (to ssh in from host). Works around bridged adapters currently being broken on OSX
host-only adapter (eth1) needs adding to /etc/network/interfaces
installed avahi-daemon to make host accessable via hostname.local

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed boot2docker

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed python-pip & virtualenv.

keeping virtual environments in ~/.venv ; I keep some proejcts in Dropbox, which doesn't like venv symlinking to system python

prehensile commented 9 years ago

installed Dropbox

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installed iStat Menus

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installed Hex Fiend

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trying to learn-by-using as many of these CLI shortcuts as possible

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set up commandline shortcut for Sublime as per this gist

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installed Tower for a nice git GUI

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installed SourceGear DiffMerge

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installed tmux

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learning the zsh git shortcuts

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installing noisy, for blocking out background sounds / unwanted pesky human noise

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installed chrome plugins:

postman for fiddling with web APIs
JSONView
Markdown Preview Plus

prehensile commented 9 years ago

Getting into the habit of using VMs for hacking about on weird bits of code with lots of system dependencies.

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learning vim. dotfile here.

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set up iterm to open new tabs in same directory.

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Installed tmux Learning tmux

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# Disable transparency in the menu bar and elsewhere on Yosemite
defaults write com.apple.universalaccess reduceTransparency -bool true