My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)

• setup-a-mac-for-frontend-dev

  2 414 5.6

  How I setup a Mac, with lots of productivity tools, step-by-step guide

• dotfiles

  2 2 8.5 Shell

You can also set most of these options in a shell script, here is my (shitty and outdated, but it proves the point) script https://github.com/pprotas/dotfiles/blob/main/osconfig.sh

Just run the shellscript when you get a new macos device

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• nix-darwin

  39 2,249 8.7 Nix

  nix modules for darwin

Just a shout out to nix-darwin[1]. It is nix, so initial setup is a bit involved. But then it truly makes it easy to configure everything in one place including mac defaults, homebrew apps declaratively and mas apps etc.

There is a sample config in nix-darwin repo[2].

[1] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin

[2] https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin/blob/master/modules/examp...

• TimeZones-Alfred

  3 489 6.1 Shell

  Alfred Workflow

alternatively one can use an alfred plugin like this one: https://github.com/jaroslawhartman/TimeZones-Alfred. That's what I'm using since a few years

• yabai

  218 21,317 9.1 C

  A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).

• skhd

  64 5,488 3.0 C

  Simple hotkey daemon for macOS

It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).

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