Setup a new mac (for devs [and others]) 💻

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  • ohmyzsh

    🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

    • There are so many oh-my-zsh themes that you can use. I like intheloop, but you can try others and find the one that you like the most. To set the relevant theme open your ~/.zshrc file and change the value of ZSH_THEME:

  • zsh-yarn-autocompletions

    Zsh plugin for Yarn autocompletions.

    • Download the mac zip/targz file from the release age: https://github.com/g-plane/zsh-yarn-autocompletions/releases

  • InfluxDB

    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.

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  • Rectangle

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

    • Rectangle is an open-source tool that gives you the ability to easily move the windows-apps around your desktops using your keyboard (left-half / right-half / top / bottom etc) https://rectangleapp.com/

  • alt-tab-macos

    Windows alt-tab on macOS

    • Personally, I don't use this tool, but many of my friends like it, so I decided to keep it on my list. If you moved from Windows to MacOS - AltTab is probably your friend - it brings the power of Windows's "alt-tab" functionality to your Mac. (Image from AltTab's website) Install using brew:

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