🆒 How to cooly setup a Mac for develop

Hardware

• track-pad
• HHKB keyboard
• Apple studio-display

System Configs

• mouse sensitivity config to your own preference
• track-pad: three finger drag for window move, two finger drag for scroll
• iCloud setup for all devices
• instal fonts of your preference, for me FiraCode and JetBrains Mono are the best

Apps

• 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Alfred / 🌟🌟 Raycast for the basic system-level efficiency of Mac Spotlight ...
• 🌟🌟🌟 Arc the best browser till-now to browse the Internet world -> Arc Browser and its pals
• 🌟🌟🌟 ClashX v2ray core with its client, its configuration file can be found in the section of dot-files below
• SougouInput or WechatInput for Chinese input enhancement (especially sync with elder vocabulary library)
• DingTalk / WeChat / Slack IM tools...
• 🌟🌟 InfusePro for media and NAS resource player
• DaisyDisk disk cleaner and space visualization
• BarTender for menu bar management
• iStat Menus for system monitoring
• Contexts for window management and tabs accurately switch
• Flow for Pomodoro working method

DevEnv

Dev

• Chrome for web debug
• iHosts for hosts management
• 🌟 Warp terminal enhancement

Cli tools

• homebrew for package management on Mac
• oh-my-zsh for terminal enhancement (shell and bash)
• commitizen for git commit message standardization
• nvm / pnpm for node version management
• tree for directory structure visualization
• tldr for command line help
• ...

Dot-files

• .zshrc oh-my-zsh config file as replacement for bash_profile
• config.yaml proxy config file for ClashX

For my own dot-file you can find it here: 🗄️ Arno dot-files

CodeEditor and IDE

• XCode for basic dev.
• ⚒️ VSCode and its extensions for web development
• 🚀 Github Copilot: wroth much more than its subscription price

Other AI Coding tools see -> AI Coding Tools

Reference

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• 2025-05-13 upgrade more steps on configs and tool to setup my new Mac