# How I setup my computer

Here's the things I usually install on my computer (currently a Macbook Pro 16")

## MacOS customization

Here are some of the defaults I usually customize.

- Configure trackpad
  - click with tap
  - 3 finger drag & drop
- configure keyboard: set key repeat to max fast and delay until repeat to short

## Developer tooling setup

- [VSCode Insiders Edition](https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/)
  The insiders edition is basically VSCode's nightly release. That might sound scary, but I'm using it now for over two years for my daily work and it is super stable :+1:. I mostly use VSCode for frontend dev, Docker etc. I'm using Dank Mono as the font and night-owl (dark/light based on hour of the day/lightning conditions) as my theme.
  - Some of the extensions (note this is not an up-to-date/exhaustive list)
    - [Nx Console](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nrwl.angular-console)
    - angular2-inline - for inline template highlighting
    - Bookmarks
    - bracket-pair-colorizer
    - codeacejumper
    - git-graph
    - githistory
    - gitlens
    - json-to-ts 
    - [Angular Language Service](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Angular.ng-template) 
    - night-owl 
    - prettier-vscode 
    - remote-containers 
    - remote-ssh 
    - remote-ssh-edit 
    - search-node-modules 
    - theme-cobalt2 
    - todo-tree 
    - vscode-docker 
    - vscode-icons 
    - vscode-peacock 
    - vscode-todo-highlight 
    - vsliveshare 
- [Docker](https://www.docker.com)
- [nvm - Node Version Manager](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm)
- [iTerm](https://www.iterm2.com/downloads.html)
  

## Productivity Apps

- [Brew](https://brew.sh/)
- [oh-my-zsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh) with [powerline10k](https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k)
- [Alfred 4](https://www.alfredapp.com/) (including PowerPack) - Only already super useful for the clipboard history. Activate it instead of spotlight with <kbd>Cmd</kbd>+<kbd>Space</kbd>
- [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com/) - I still have some files stored there although most of my stuff is on Google Drive
- [Toggl](https://www.toggl.com) - Time tracking app with lots of integrations and super easy to use
- [Rectangle](https://rectangleapp.com/) - successor of Spectacle; used for easy window arrangement
- [RescueTme](https://www.rescuetime.com/)
- [Notion](https://www.notion.so/) - For my note taking & building my ["second brain"](https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/). They have a "desktop" app, basically their web app in a frame. So I mostly use only their webapp directly

## Screencasting, Video editing

- [Camtasia for Mac](https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html)
- [RDM tool](https://github.com/avibrazil/RDM) - for resizing to a suitable resolution. I record 1280x720 (HiDPI) as suggested by the [Egghead instructor guide](https://howtoegghead.com/instructor/screencasting/screen-setup/)

## Other

- [Little Snitch 4](https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html)
- [iStat Menus 6](https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/)
- [Dank Mono font](https://dank.sh/)


## Entertainment

- [Spotify](https://www.spotify.com)

## Related

- [The First 10 macOS Apps I install in 2019 by John Papa](https://dev.to/azure/the-first-10-macos-apps-i-install-in-2019-2bba)