My Mac configuration

This is my Mac configuration and setup for Software development & Machine learning projects. Feel free to use it.

Desktop apps

Development

Mozilla Firefox Download link
VS Code Download link
Xcode Download link
SourceTree Download link

Utilities

iTerm 2 Download link
Postman Download link
Adapter Download link
Sublime Text Download link
FileZilla (FTP Client) Download link
Beekeeper Studio (Community Edition) Download link
TeamViewer Download link

Maintenance

CleanMyMac Download link

Communication

Package Managers

Homebrew Installation guide
PIP Installation guide
Yarn (Installed with npm install --g yarn)

Tools and languages

Node.JS and NPM Download link
React (Installed with npm install -g create-react-app)
Python Download link
Docker Desktop Download link
mySQL (Installed with brew install mysql)
MongoDB (Installed with brew install mongodb)
Redis (Installed with brew install redis)
RStudio Download link

CLI apps

git (Installed with brew install git)
wget (Installed with brew install wget)
heroku (Installed with brew install heroku)
ganache (Installed with npm install -g ganache)
htop (Installed with brew install htop)
curl (Installed with brew install curl)
nvm - Node version manager (Installed with npm install -g nvm)
http-server (Installed with npm install -g http-server)
iponmap (Installed with npm install -g iponmap)
pyenv (Installed with brew install pyenv)
tree (Installed with brew install tree)

Terminal configuration

Oh My ZSH Installation guide

Oh My ZSH plugins

zsh-autosuggestions (Installed with brew install zsh-autosuggestions)
zsh-syntax-highlighting (Installed with brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting)

Python libraries and packages

matplotlib (Installed with pip install matplotlib)
SciKitLearn (Installed with pip install scikit-learn)
XGBoost (Installed with pip install xgboost)
TensorFlow (Installed with pip install tensorflow)
Keras (Installed with pip install keras)
Keras RL2 (Installed with pip install keras-rl2)
NumpPy (Installed with pip install numpy)
Pandas (Installed with pip install pandas)
Gym (Installed with pip install gym)
Jupyter notebooks (Installed with pip install jupyter)
imbalanced-learn (Installed with pip install imbalanced-learn)

VS Code Extensions

Prettier - Code formatter
Truffle for VS Code
Python
Jupyter
ESLint
DotENV
SandDance

Other VS Code configurations

Install code . shell coommand by selecting from the menu: View > Command Palette > Install code command in PATH

Specials for M1 Macs

Before installing anything else it is important to install Rosetta2 emulator. You can do so with the following terminal command:

/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

System preferences

Show all hidden files

defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true
killall Finder

Show User Library folder

chflags nohidden ~/Library/
killall Finder

Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false

Finder show path bar

defaults write com.apple.finder ShowPathbar -bool true

Display the file extensions in Finder

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowAllExtensions -bool true
killall Finder

When performing a search, search the current folder by default

defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf"

Expand save panel by default

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode2 -bool true

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