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If you're using an Apple Silicon Mac (M1), you may need to use Rosetta (Apple's translation layer from Intel to Arm) to run certain applications which aren't natively supported on Apple Silicon yet. Creating a Rosetta terminal allows you to run certain processes using Intel architecture rather than Arm.
Here's how to create a Rosetta terminal:
Use Finder and under Applications search for Terminal. Duplicate Terminal and rename it to "Rosetta-Terminal". Right click "Get Info" and select "Open Using Rosetta". Open the "Rosetta-Terminal" and type arch, you should see this say i386 or another Intel architecture.
Setup default profile styling for terminal:
Open Terminal > Preferences > General > On startup, open: New window with profile: Pro
Setup default use of zshell for terminal:
Open Terminal > Preferences > General > Shell open with: Command (complete path): /bin/zsh
mkdir ~/dev
Update your git config
git config --global user.name username
Check that the git config was added correctly
git config --global --list
Create a .ssh directory
mkdir ~/.ssh
Navigate to the .ssh directory
cd ~/.ssh
If you have an old ssh key you'd like to preserve, rename the old ssh key file to avoid overwriting the previous key
mv id_ed25519 id_ed25519_old
mv id_ed25519.pub id_ed25519.pub_old
Generate SSH key and set a password for added security
ssh-keygen -t ed25519
Copy SSH key
cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub
Add SSH to your code repository in GitLab / GitHub / etc.
Add the following to your zshell profile to always source your ssh key nano ~/.zshrc
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
XCode can be installed through the XCode website, using the App Store, or through your terminal using xcode-select --install. My preference is to use the XCode website.
During development I've frequently run into the error Gem installation error: You have to install development tools first. If you encounter this, run sudo xcode-select -switch / (Source: Stackoverflow)
VSCode can be installed through the Visual Studio website, using the AppStore, or using homebrew using brew install visual-studio-code . My preference is to use the Visual Studio website.
Launch VSCode from Terminal
After VSCode is installed, use the code . command in your terminal to run VSCode. If it doesn't work, you can either:
A. Open the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) and type 'shell command' to find the Shell Command: Install 'code' command in PATH command.
B. Add the code command to ~/.zshrc
# Use VSCode 'code' command in shell
code () { VSCODE_CWD="$PWD" open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args $* ;}
Use VSCode as your default editor by adding it to your ~/.zshrc
# Use VSCode as default editor
export EDITOR="code --wait"
VSCode Preferences
General > Preferences > Settings
- Editor Tab Size 2
VSCode Extensions
Sublime text can be installed through the Sublime website or by using homebrew using brew install sublime-text. My preference is to use the Sublime website.
Using Homebrew
brew install sublime-text
Open sublime from terminal
subl .
Using Downloaded Install
Visit https://www.sublimetext.com/ and "Download for Mac". Open and install.
Make bin directory
mkdir ~/bin
Copy sublime to bin directory
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
Add sublime command to be accessible from the command line
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin' >> ~/.zshrc
echo "export EDITOR='subl' -w" >> ~/.zshrc
Restart terminal and open sublime from terminal
subl .
Default Browser: Firefox
Home Content: None
Default Search Engine: DuckDuckGo
Browser Privacy: Strict
Send websites a "Do Not Track": Always
Logins and Passwords: No
Forms and Autofill: No
Data Collection and Use: None
Security: All
Sync: Bookmarks
Bookmarks
Browser Extensions
Preferences > Sidebar > Locations > [x] Laptop, [x] Hard disks
Metabase can be downloaded using a Docker image or Jar file. I prefer to use the Docker file by opening a terminal and running docker run -d -p 4000:3000 --name metabase metabase/metabase. This will map your localhost:4000 to port 3000 inside the docker container.
When running metabase from within a container and trying to connect to a local database, use host.docker.internal instead of localhost. localhost will refer to localhost within a docker container where as host.docker.internal will provide the host which sits outside the docker container.