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How you should set up your mac

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System Preferences

  • Trackpad: disable force touch, make tracking speed fast, disable natural scrolling
  • Keyboard: key repeat rate fast, delay until repeat short
  • Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots: change the shortcut for “copy picture of selected area to the clipboard” to ⌘\ for ease (it’s a game changer trust me)
  • Displays: disable automatically adjust brightness, disable true tone
  • Desktop > Hot Corners: mission control, notification center, launchpad, put display to sleep
  • Enable screen sharing permissions for Zoom

Apps

  • Remove everything from the dock
  • Install VS Code, Sublime Text, Chrome, Spotify, Obsidian, Notion, Zoom
  • Nice to haves: Klack, Vivid, Cron, Tailscale, Texts, Stats, Screen Studio, Rectangle, Warp, Raycast, Cyberduck, Heynote, Ollama, LM Studio, Icebox, Timing, Granola, Wispr Flow
  • Ghostty
  • Set up Time machine

AI

  • Cursor
  • Windsurf
  • Claude code

Terminal

  • Install command line tools: xcode-select --install
  • Don’t show login info: touch .hushlogin
  • Change zsh to bash: chsh -s /bin/bash
  • Get custom dotfiles: git clone https://github.com/ishan0102/dotfiles.git
  • Add SSH/GPG key for GitHub
  • Disable visual bell
  • Use Berkeley Mono for the font
  • Install llm and claude utils
  • Set up uv, bun, brew, etc.

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