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I noticed they installed version managers for Java, node, and directly installed Go. Never mind the nightmare that is Python on macOS.
I’ve become a big fan of ASDF (https://asdf-vm.com/) for managing language versions. It has plugins for most everything I work with on a daily basis (all those languages above plus Ruby).
I like Alfred but I'm not a huge power user. It does have a bunch of other functionality. Out of the box it lets you do a bunch of stuff like filesystem manipulation, clipboard history management, a simple calculator, and stuff like that.
It's also extensible. For example there's a very useful add-on workflow [0] that makes it really quick to open up the next Zoom meeting you have scheduled in your calendar.
[0] https://github.com/caleb531/open-conference-url
- You can automate all of the other settings by bringing in your one-off shell commands into a script and using something like dotbot which allows you to bring in dotfiles as well as system setup type scripts.
I’m running a relatively similar setup to you, if you want an example of what I’m talking about, you can check out my dotfiles repo at https://github.com/jonwest/dotfiles