A fresh install of a Macbook Pro

What’s the first thing you usually do when you setup a new computer? Yup – Install Chrome. This time I’ve also installed Brave and i’m actually enjoying it.

After the browser the next best thing is my password manager: 1Password. This gives me access to everything I need. Next up is:

• WhatsApp
• PHPStorm
• Figma
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• iTerm
• Brew
• ZSH and Oh My Zsh
• Node
• MAMP Pro
• Todoist
• Slack
• Spotify
• Droplr

Configuring Oh My ZSH

There’s a couple of extensions I can’t miss for Oh My ZSH:

• git
• wp-cli
• gulp docker
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting

The last two plugins need to be installed manually by running:

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Afterwards, you can activate the plugins by changing a line in the ~/.zshrc file, as below:

Run 'nano ~/.zshrc'
And change the contents of the plugins line to:
git wp-cli gulp docker zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting

Other optimisations

• Partition the hard drive (separate Workspace from OS)
• Make symlinks from home folder to hard drives
• Delete the downloads folder and create a symlink for it to /Volumes/Data/Downloads
• Enable tap for the mousepad
• Increase backspace speed
• Increase arrow speed
• iTerm:
  • Profiles -> Default -> General -> Reuse previous session’s directory
  • Profiles -> Default -> Terminal -> Unlimited scrollback
• Set Paste and Match Style as default (https://twitter.com/marinusklasen/status/1259077017632415745)
• Install mkcert
• Install mailhog

MAMP Pro and WP-Cli: Setting the right PHP version for CLI

“env: mysql: No such file or directory”

To prevent this, and to generally MAMP’s PHP library in the terminal, add the following code to your ~/.zprofile file. (if it doesn’t exist, create it)