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Rapid Mac Setup for Frontend Development
dev.to | 2021-06-07

This macos script (inspired by Mathias Bynen's script) also configures many other OS-level settings that are gonna be useful for developers.
How Intuitive Are Macs Really?
news.ycombinator.com | 2021-05-24

1) Finder is an excellent image viewer. You want gallery view, which is one of the prominent buttons visible by default in the OS version I'm using. Maximize the window, and images will be nearly full-screen. No hidden UI elements needed. It's crazy to me that there is nothing like this (?) by default in Ubuntu.
2) Agreed, this is silly. This is likely fixed by one of the items in this very long list of power-user tweaks: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
Can't set default Finder view anymore on Big Sur
reddit.com/r/MacOS | 2021-04-16

On a fresh 11.2.3 install I've tried to set the default "view" to "list" for Finder windows using the following:
Gnome 40
news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-24
Mathias Bynens' Sensible macOS Defaults
reddit.com/r/hackernews | 2021-03-19
Sensible macOS Defaults
reddit.com/r/MacOS | 2021-03-19

reddit.com/r/osx | 2021-03-19

news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-19

For clarity, I should point out that I don't believe that all of these defaults are "sensible" for every user. I gave the submission it's title because that is how the creator refers to the file.[0]
[0] https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tree/master#sensib...

news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-19
Script to reinstall macos
reddit.com/r/MacOS | 2021-02-09

the list of commands is nice. other people have done this, way more expansively. you might get some good ideas from here, for example.

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