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# 💻🎁 New Computer Checklist 🎁💻



A checklist and list of scripts I should run when getting a new computer or reinstalling OSX.



It'll feel like a super fast, new machine!



> Updated for macOS 13, M1 by Grant Timmerman



Imagine your MacBook was stolen tomorrow. Or you started a new job with a new machine fresh off the press. Would you be able to recover your favorite settings?



## Getting Started



You should have the following user/pass combinations ready:

- Wifi password (OS setup)

- Apple ID (OS setup)

- LastPass (Password manager)

- Phone – 2FA



## Performance



**Computer performance is extremely important.**



To do our jobs faster, we try to balance two things:

- Use of applications to make our lives **easier**

- Performance/Efficiency to make our lives **faster**



## System Preferences



### 🍎 General

  - Appearance: Dark

  - Accent color: Multicolor

  - Highlight color: Accent Color

  - Sidebar icon size: Small

  - [x] Allow wallpaper tinting in windows

  - Show scroll bars: Automatically based on mouse or trackpad

  - Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the next page

  - Default web browser: Google Chrome

  - Prefer tabs: in full screen

  - [ ] Ask to keep changes when closing documents

  - [x] Close windows when quitting app

  - Recent items: None

  - [ ] Allow Handoff



### 🖥 Desktop & Screen Saver

  - Message: Start after: 1 hour

  - [x] Show with clock

  - Hot corner: bottom-left, put monitor to sleep

  - Screen Saver: Default

  - [ ] Use random screen saver



### 🚢 Dock & Menu Bar

  - Dock

    - Size: Smallest

    - [x] Magnification

    - Position on screen: Right

    - Minimize windows using: Scale effect

    - [x] Double-click on a window's title bar to zoom

    - [ ] Minimize windows into application icon

    - [ ] Animate opening applications

    - [x] Automatically hide and show the Dock

    - [x] Show indicators for open applications

    - [x] Show recent applications in Dock

  - Menu Bar

    - [ ] Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop

    - [x] Automatically hide and show the menu bar in full screen

  🕒 Date & Time

    - Date & Time: Set date and time automatically

    - Time Zone: Set time zone automatically using current location

    - Clock

      - [x] Show date and time in menu bar

      - Time Options: Digital

      - Date options:

        - [x] Show the day of the week

        - [x] Show the date



### 🖲 Mission Control

  - [x] Automatically rearrage Spaces based on most recent use

  - [x] When switching to an applications, switch to a Space with open windows for the application

  - [ ] Group windows by application

  - [x] Displays have separate Spaces

  - Dashboard: Off

  - Mission Control: Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Up

  - Application windows: Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + Down

  - Show Desktop: F11

  - Show Dashboard F12



### 🌐 Language & Region

  - Preferred languages

    - English - Primary

    - 简体中文 - Chinese, Simplified

  - Region: United States

  - Calendar: Gregorian

  - Time format: [x] 24-Hour Time



### 🔒 Security & Privacy

  - General

    - [x] Require password for 1 minute after sleep or screen saver begins

    - Allow apps downloaded from: Mac App Store and identified developers

  - Privacy

    - Allow the apps below to control your computer: (when downloaded)

      - Google Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/features.html)

      - Moom (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12)

        - Allow the app to control your computer via System Preferences > Security & Privacy



### 🔍 Spotlight

  - Only the following:

    - Folders

    - PDF Documents

    - System Preferences



### 🔔 Notifications

  - Allow Notifications: Banners

  - [x] Show notifcations on lock screen

  - [x] Show in Notification Center



### 📺 Display

  - Default for display

  - [x] Automatically adjust brightness

  - [x] True Tone

  - Refresh Rate: ProMotion



### 🔌 Battery

  - Turn display off after 15 minutes

  - [x] Put hard disks to sleep when possible

  - [x] Slightly dim the display while on battery power

  - [ ] Optimize video streaming while on battery

  - [x] Optimized battery charging

  - [x] Show battery status in menu bar

  - [ ] Low power mode



### ⌨ Keyboard

  - Key Repeat - 2nd to fastest

  - Delay Until Repeat - 3rd tick from left

  - [x] Adjust keyboard brightness in low light

  - [ ] Turn off when computer is not used

  - [x] Show Keyboard, Emoji, & Symbol Viewers in menu bar

  - [x] Use all F1, F2, etc.



### 🖱 Mouse

  - Tracking speed: Fastest

    - (you can increase it beyond this by doing this http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15210/how-to-increase-tracking-speed-beyond-the-maximum)

  - Scrolling speed: 4th tick from left

  - Double-Click speed: 2nd tick from right

  - Primary mouse button: Left



### ⬜ Trackpad

  - Point & Click

    - [ ] Look up & data detectors

    - [x] Secondary click

    - [x] Tap to click

    - Click: Medium

    - Tracking speed: 2nd to last tick

    - [x] Force Click and haptic feedback

  - Scroll & Zoom

    - [x] Scroll direction

    - [x] Zoom in or out

    - [x] Smart zoom

    - [x] Rotate

  - More Gestures

    - [x] Swipe between pages

    - [x] Swipe between full-screen apps

    - [x] Notification Center

    - [x] Mission Control

    - [x] App Exposé

    - [x] Launchpad

    - [x] Show Desktop



### 🖨 Printers & Scanners - Nothing special



### 🔊 Sound

  - Nothing special

  - [x] Show volume in menu bar



### ☁️/🌐 iCloud / Internet Accounts



- Uncheck all besides hardware settings. Use G Suite, Chrome, and Google Photos instead.

  - [x] Keychain

  - [x] Find My Mac



Ignore all those scary warnings and click "Remove from Mac".



### 💎 Extensions

  - DON'T DOWNLOAD DRIVE OR DROPBOX

  - Actions: Not enabled

  - Finder: Not enabled

  - Share Menu: Mail, AirDrop, Messages

  - Today: Not enabled



### 🕸 Network

  - Show Wi-Fi status in menu bar

  - Advanced

    - Nothing really different besides default

    - DNS Servers

      - 192.168.0.1



### 📲 Blootooth

  - Turn Bluetooth Off

  - [ ] Show Bluetooth in menu bar



### 👫 Sharing

  - Nothing should be on



### 👤 Users & Groups

  - Grant Timmerman - Admin

    - Avatar: Fox

  - Other Users - Guest User - Off



### 🕰 Time Machine: Off



### 💬 Accessibility

  - VoiceOver: Disabled

  - Zoom

    - [x] Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom

    - [ ] Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom

    - Zoom style: Full screen

    - Advanced

      - Maximum Zoom: 0

      - Minimum Zoom: 0

      - When zoomed in, the screen image moves: Continuously with pointer

  - Display

    - [ ] Invert colors

    - [ ] Use grayscale

    - [ ] Differentiate without color

    - [ ] Increase contrast

    - [ ] Reduce transparency (you could add this if you want)

    - Display Contrast: Left-most tick

    - Pointer

      - Pointer Size: 2nd tick from left

      - [x] Shake mouse pointer to locate

  - Descriptions: Disabled 

  - Captions: Default

  - Audio: None

  - Keyboard: All disabled

  - Mouse & Trackpad

    - [x] Spring-loaded delay: middle

  - Switch Control: Default

  - Dictation: None



## 🖥 Applications



> OPTIONAL: Any application that you have pinned constantly should be converted to a native app

  - https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier `sudo npm install nativefier -g`

- Applications +(Less tabs, more isolation), -(Links don't work)

  - SoundCloud: `nativefier --name "SoundCloud" soundcloud.com`

  - Google Chat: `nativefier --name "Hangouts Chat" chat.google.com`



### 📂 Finder

  - in folders, right-click, View > as List

  - Finder > Preferences

    - Sidebar

      - Favorites

        - [ ] All My Files

        - [ ] iCloud Drive

        - [ ] AirDrop

        - [x] Applications

        - [x] Desktop

        - [x] Documents

        - [x] Downloads

        - [ ] Movies

        - [ ] Music

        - [ ] Pictures

        - [ ] granttimmerman

        - Shared

        - [ ] Back to My Mac

        - [ ] Connected Servers

        - [ ] Bonjour computers

        - Devices

        - [x] Grant's MacBook Pro

        - [ ] Hard disks

        - [x] External disks

        - [x] CDs, DVDs, and iPods

        - Tags

        - [ ] Recent tags

    - Advanced

      - [x] Show all filename extensions

      - [ ] Show warning before changing extension

      - [ ] Show warning before emptying the Trash

      - When performing a search: Search the Current Folder



### ⬛ Terminal Settings

  - Download my settings here: https://github.com/grant/iterm-profile

    - Set as default iterm settings

  - Setup https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

  - Copy `.ssh` folder from this repo.

  - Generate a key and [add it to GitHub](https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent):

    - ```sh

      ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "[email protected]"

      eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

      /usr/bin/ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa

      pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

      ```

    - Use GitHub UI to add public key to GH

  - [iTerm](https://www.iterm2.com/) - Terminal

    - General

      - Startup

        - Use System Window Restoration Setting

      - Closing

        - [ ] Quit when all windows are closed

        - [x] Confirm closing multiple sessions

        - [x] Confirm "Quit iTerm2 (⌘Q)" command

      - Magic

        - Instant Replay uses [4] MB per session

        - [ ] Save copy/paste and command history to disk

      - Services

        - [ ] Add Bonjour hosts to Profiles

        - [x] Check for updates automatically

        - [ ] Prompt for test-release updates

      - Preferences

        - [ ] Load preferences from custom folder or URL

      - Selection

        - [x] Copy to pasteboard on selection

        - [ ] Copied text includes trailing newline

        - [ ] Applications in terminal may access clipboard

      - Window

        - [ ] Smart window placement

        - [x] Adjust window when changing font size

        - [ ] Zoom maximizes vertically only

        - [x] Native full screen windows

      - tmux integration

        - Open tmux windows as native windows

        - ...

    - Appearance

      - Tabs

        - Tab bar location: Top

        - Theme: Dark

        - [x] Show tab bar even when there is only one tab

        - [x] Show tab numbers

        - [x] Show tab close buttons

        - [x] Show activity indicator

        - [x] Show new-output indicator

        - [x] Show tab bar in fullscreen

      - Panes

        - [x] Show per-pane title bar with split panes

      - Screen

        - [ ] Auto-hide menu bar in non-native fullscreen

      - Window & Tab Titles

        - [x] Show window number

        - [x] Show current job name

        - [ ] Show profile name

      - Dimming

        - [ ] Dimming affects only text, not background.

        - Dimming amount: 1/4 Minimal

        - [x] Dim inactive split panes

        - [x] Dim background windows

      - Window

        - [ ] Show border around window

        - [ ] Hide scrollbars

        - [ ] Disable transparency for fullscreen windows by default

    - Profiles

      - General

        - Basics

          - Name: ?

        - Command

          - [x] Login shell

        - Working Directory

          - [x] Reuse previous session's directory

      - Colors

        - Use the defaults for everything besides the following

        - Selection: ff8000

        - Minimum contrast: min

      - Text

        - Cursor

          - [x] Vertical bar

          - [x] Blinking cursor

        - Text Rendering

          - [x] Draw bold text in bold font

          - [x] Draw bold text in bright colors

          - [ ] Blinking text allowed

          - [x] Italic text allowed

        - Defaults for other things

      - Window

        - Transparency: 1/4 from left

        - [x] Blur: 1/2 from left

        - Defaults for everything else

      - Scroll

        - Scrollback Lines: 50000

        - Defaults for everything else

      - Session, Keys, Advanced

        - Defaults

    - Preferences

      - Terminal

        - Shell Integration

          - [ ] Insert newline before start of a command prompt if needed

          - [ ] Show mark indicators



### 🌐 [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/desktop/index.html?brand=CHBD&gclid=CjwKEAiA94nCBRDxismumrL83icSJAAeeETQYOf76erQPwAxn-3VFJoyB4jKG8rRaojywrA5DvKOjxoC-Ofw_wcB)/[FF](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paidsearch&utm_campaign=sitelink&utm_term=download%20firefox&gclid=CjwKEAiA94nCBRDxismumrL83icSJAAeeETQ083MCGKGd4nl3St2NhpixoUvlbAvbJIU0zwHss-RaxoCpC7w_wcB) - Web browser

  - Log in to Chrome profile

  - Chrome Extensions (chrome://extensions/)

    - Adblock Plus

    - Checker Plus for Gmail

    - Checker Plus for Google Calendar

    - GoFullPage - Full Page Screen Capture

    - Hacker News Collapsible Comments

    - JSON Formatter

    - LastPass: Free Password Manager

    - Refined GitHub

    - Save as PDF

    - Tab Pinner (Keyboard Shortcuts)

    - Tab Size on GitHub

    - Video Speed Controller

    - WhatFont

  - [Open email in Gmail instead of Apple Mail](https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/set-gmail-as-browser-default-email-client-ht#sm.0000orlgqi4b7e33zxa10x3lz8ehe)

      - Display density: compact



### ↔️ [Moom](manytricks.com/moom/) - Window Management



- General

  - Launch on login

  - Show preferences on launch

  - Run as faceless application

- Keyboard

  ![https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/744973/20869168/67cc16b0-ba21-11e6-9c03-c06f44e32d39.png](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/744973/20869168/67cc16b0-ba21-11e6-9c03-c06f44e32d39.png)



### 🖼 Images/GIFs



- [Screen Studio](https://www.screen.studio/) - Create HQ GIFs with smooth animations

- [Giphy Capture](https://giphy.com/apps/giphycapture) - Create GIFs

- [KeyCastr](https://github.com/keycastr/keycastr) - `brew install --cask keycastr`

- Screenshots:

  - Open `screenshot.app`, options, save to `~/screenshots`.



## 🚢 Dock



- Remove all but the following:

  - Finder

  - Chrome

  - iTerm

  - VS Code



## 🚀 Launchpad



- This will be cluttered, but uninstall anything not relevant.

- Put all pre-installed apps in folders



## 🐚 Shell Software



- Download personal dotfiles: https://github.com/grant/dotfiles

- Download Homebrew: `ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"`

    ```sh

    git config --global user.name "YOUR NAME"

    git config --global user.email "YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS"

    git config --global pull.ff only

    git config --global push.default current

    git config --global help.autocorrect 1

    git config --global --add --bool push.autoSetupRemote true



    ```

- `bat`: `brew install bat` – `cat` is `bat` with syntax highlighting

- `gh`: `brew install gh` – GitHub CLI



- Setup OSX defaults

    ```sh

    ## All scripts not effective until Finder and Dock are restarted (see below)



    ## Speed up exposé animation

    defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1 && killall Dock

    ## Show hidden files in finder

    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES && killall Finder

    ## Disable animation for Get Info window

    defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true

    ## No .DS_Store files

    defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

    # Disable "Last Login"

    touch .hushlogin



    ## !!! Commit changes by running the following

    killAll Finder && killAll Dock

    ```



## Programming Languages



- Node: https://nodejs.org/en/download/

- Golang: https://golang.org/dl/

- Java: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html

- .NET Core: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

- Python: Already preinstalled

- Ruby: Already preinstalled

- PHP: `brew install httpd php72`



## 📝 Fonts



- [Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode)

    ```sh

    brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts

    brew install font-fira-code

    ```



## 🖥 Hardware (Ideal dev computer)



- MBP M* Pro

- 16GB+ RAM

- Flash storage



## 🛃 Rules



- Don't install anything else to increase performance.

  - Dropbox

  - Drive

  - Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Acrobat, ...)

  - GoToMeeting

  - Keybase

  - Kindle

  - Dash

  - Tableau

- No games. Use a different computer

  - Steam

  - Battle.net/Blizzard

  - Wineskin

  - Thalmic labs



# Tips and tricks



- https://blog.sindresorhus.com/macos-tips-tricks-13046cf377f8#.bw4vdg7q4



# 🗑️ Deprecated Software



- Use of anything related to iCloud.

- 📝 [Sublime](https://www.sublimetext.com/3) - Text editor

- 📝 [Webstorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/) - Web IDE

- ⚡ [Messenger](https://fbmacmessenger.rsms.me/)

- ↔️ [QuickSilver](https://qsapp.com/download.php)

- 🐺 [Firefox](mozilla.org/firefox)

- Flash Player

- IntelliJ

- http://gitup.co/

- Heroku Toolbelt (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli)