petrosdemetrakopoulos/mymacosconfiguration

My macOS configuration for Software development

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

• Zoom Download link
• MS Teams Download link
• Slack App Store link
• WhatsApp App Store link

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