Ovid 💻

Notes

11/23/21 - Picked him up from the Apple Store. Moved my old laptop so that I could share the screen for referencing configuration. Booted her up and loaded up activity monitor and command line top to watch the processes. I always avoid using the migration assistant so that I can start clean. My main goal is to keep the machine as minimal and simple as possible. I am going to try and avoid running any x86 processes under Rosetta in my attempt to go fully ARM. I wrote a quick post about why I purchased it and why I named it Ovid @ https://davidawindham.com/ovid and I'll document the rest of the it here.

System

Preferences

General : Auto / Accent multi
Desktop & Screen Save : Dark Grey Desktop color, Screen Saver 10min Monterey
Dock & Menu Bar : Remove all default, Auto Hide Dock Left w/ Magnification, no recent apps or indicators
Mission Control : set Hot Corners
Notifications & Focus : turn off all notifications except Kerberos, Wallet, Calendar, Mail, Messages & Reminders. Turn on Focus automatically from 6-10am and 6-10pm weekdays.
Internet Accounts : add email accounts w/ mail, contacts, calendar. iCloud: enable drive, photos, mail, contacts, calendars, reminders, notes, safari, KeyChain, find my mac. turn off all iCloud drive except pages.
Passwords : Wallet & Pay: only on phone/tablet
ScreenTime : disabled
Security & Privacy : Allow apps from identified developers. FileVault:Off, Firewall:On, Privacy:disable all location. show location icon in menu bar.
Network : Set up WiFi
Bluetooth : add keyboard/TrackPad
Sound :default
Keyboard :Text:add period with double-space Touch ID : setup TrackPad :scroll direction un-natural
Displays : configure external monitors
Printer : Add epson wireless
Battery : turn off display 7min. optimize battery charging, wake for network access
Sharing : rename, file/screen airplay sharing. Time Machine : set backup disk on network
Startup Disk : rename hard drive to network machine name.

MacOS

Arrange software based on usage and function

Pages, Notes, Reminders
Numbers, Keynote
Calendar, Contacts, Mail, Facetime, Messages
Photos, QuickTime, Preview
Activity Monitor, Disk Utility, Console, Color Meter

Finder

Change sidebar order and add my default work folders ( Projects / Sites )
Add QLMarkdown and Syntax Highlight Extensions ( as HomeBrew Casks )

david@ovid:~ » brew install --cask qlmarkdown
david@ovid:~ » brew install --cask syntax-highlight

Xcode

install command line developer tools.

david@ovid:~ » xcode-select –install

Git - set --global .gitignore/.gitconfig - version included with Xcode

david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) » git version
git version 2.30.1 (Apple Git-130)

Terminal

SSH Keys - move existing keys, generate fresh keys
Git Auth/Keys - use keychain
Vim & Vundle - plugins ( NERDTree, NERDTree-Git, Fugative ) colors ( sunburst, vividchalk, solarized )

david@ovid:~ » git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim

dotfiles @ https://code.davidawindham.com/david/dotfiles

Oh My Zsh - ( aliases, plugins, theme ) macos, git, gulp, grunt, brew, yarn, textmate, vscode, history-substring-search, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting

david@ovid:~ » sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
david@ovid:~ » git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
david@ovid:~ » git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

New Features

david@ovid:~ » networkQuality ( network tests )
david@ovid:~ » aea ( Manipulate Apple Encrypted Archives )

Development

Quick reference for Apple Silicon compatibility - https://doesitarm.com

Text Editors

Textmate - set as default editor, shell support global .tm_properties
Jet Brains - CLion, Rider, GoLand, Rust, RubyMine, PyCharm, PhpStorm, WebStorm
Visual Studio Code - Insiders (Universal Build) - plugins ( Sunburst, One Dark Pro, Transmit, Vim, GitLens, Github Markdown, Markdown Lint, Spell Check )
~~Atom~~ - dropped b/c x86. Microsoft now owns Github and any package I used there is now on VS Code.
~~Sublime~~ - dropped Sublime and Merge
Nova - trying out Nova from Panic Inc.
Kaleidoscope - for diffs.

Languages

Apple is removing languages from the OS via Xcode 11 release notes: "Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software. In future versions of macOS, scripting language runtimes won’t be available by default, and may require you to install an additional package."

Homebrew

Homebrew - trying to avoid all x86 packages *installed in /opt/homebrew for ARM

david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) » arch
arm64
david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) » brew doctor
Your system is ready to brew.
david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) » brew --version
Homebrew 3.3.5
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision c29456a994b; last commit 2021-11-25)
david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) »

SSL ( Open, Libre, Boring )

Packages


gh

Casks


qlmarkdown	syntax-highlight

Node & NVM

v.16.13.0 is Universal and has LTS
Will bring my older Node.js projects up to this version

david@ovid:~ » curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash
david@ovid:~ » nvm install --lts
david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) » nvm
Node Version Manager (v0.37.2)
david@ovid:~/sites/dotfiles(master○) » node -v
v16.13.0
david@ovid:~/sites/daw_til(master○) » npm -v
8.1.0

ran into a bug 🪲 where the ~/.npm directory was not installed.

david@ovid:~/sites/daw_til(master○) » npm install       
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! syscall mkdir
npm ERR! path /Users/david/.npm/_cacache
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Your cache folder contains root-owned files, due to a bug in
npm ERR! previous versions of npm which has since been addressed.
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! To permanently fix this problem, please run:
npm ERR!   sudo chown -R 501:20 "/Users/david/.npm"

david@ovid:~ » sudo mkdir .npm 
david@ovid:~/sites/daw_til(master○) » sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm 

npm notice New patch version of npm available! 8.1.0 -> 8.1.4
david@ovid:~/sites/daw_til(master⚡) » npm install -g npm@8.1.4

Database

PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
DBngin Tables Plus

Integration

Docker Now
Insomnia
Postman

Audit & Testing

Screaming Frog

Communications

Keybase
Authy
Zoom

Productivity

Quicksilver, Alfred, Launchbar
Objective Development - Launchbar/Little Snitch Obsidian

Design

Adobe
Sketch
Sip

A/V

Monitor Control
Screenflow
Rogue Amoeba - Audio Hijack/Airfoil/Satellite
Spotify
VLC

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