Everything I install and set up on a new MacBook as a web developer

• Rectangle

  728 24,958 8.5 Swift

  Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

I was a Spectacle user for years, but I recently switched to using Rectangle for window management. Rectangle has a few more options than Spectacle; I’m still getting used to it but I have no strong feelings either way.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• MeetingBar

  33 4,296 8.9 Swift

  🇺🇦 Your meetings at your fingertips in the macOS menu bar

I keep three calendars: a work calendar, a personal calendar, and a side project calendar. It’s useful to see a combined schedule at a glance, and for this I use MeetingBar.

• iTerm2

  180 14,807 9.7 Objective-C

  iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

I’ve tried other new and fancy terminals, but iTerm2 does the job. I use the Fira Code font (with ligatures enabled), and the Dracula colour palette.

• Visual Studio Code

  2,877 159,624 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

I use VS Code. It’s free and built on open source. I use the Settings Sync feature which means that all my themes and plugins are managed in the cloud, so I don’t need to maintain an up-to-date list.

• cli

  254 35,800 9.8 Go

  GitHub’s official command line tool

  

Two CLI tools I install right away are the GitHub CLI (via brew) and the Netlify CLI (via npm).

• HomeBrew

  1,292 39,842 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

I try to install as much as possible using Homebrew. The first packages I install when setting up a new machine are node and nvm. I also brew install lolcat, which lets me do this:

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