Tim's Setup

Getting started on a fresh macOS system.

sh ./run.sh

MacOS Preferences

The following changes aren't applied until you log out and back in.

Trackpad speed

defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling 2

Key repeat rate

The normal minimum for InitialKeyRepeat is 15 (225 ms) and for KeyRepeat it's 2 (30 ms).

defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1

Generate SSH keys

Check here for more details.

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "[email protected]"

Now we need to add the new SSH key to services.

• GitHub
• GitLab

Install Homebrew

Before installing Homebrew, we need to install the CLI tools for Xcode:

xcode-select —-install

Now we can run the install command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"