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Installations

  • 1Password (available from App Store)
  • developer tools: xcode-select --install
  • Homebrew
  • Chrome (available from App Store)
  • Anaconda or Miniconda
  • Slack (available from App Store, which I think works better with notification settings)
  • Spotify
  • Dropbox
  • Jupyter
    • base: conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab
    • base: conda install -n base nb_conda_kernels
    • env: conda install ipykernel
    • Then, launch Jupyter from base, and select that env from the kernel dropdown

Optional, for me:

Extra git stuff

Gitignore

In the file ~/.gitignore_global put

.DS_Store
.ipynb_checkpoints
.Trashes
.RHistory
__pycache__
~$*
~*
*~
.~
*.egg-info
.nbgrader.log
altair-data-*.json

and then execute git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore_global'

Defaults

git config --global core.editor nano

(or code, emacs, or whatever)

Also

git config --global user.name "Mike Gelbart"
git config --global user.email mgelbart@cs.ubc.ca

Bashrc

In ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc add the following aliases:

alias l="git status"
alias jp="jupyter notebook"
alias jl="jupyter lab"
alias unlock="chflags -R nouchg"
alias listf="du -hs * | gsort -h"

# Git branch in prompt.
parse_git_branch() {
    git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/ (\1)/'
}
export PS1="\u@\h \W\[\033[32m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] $ "

matplotlibrc

In ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc add the following:

font.size : 16

set up ssh key(s)

Following instructions at https://help.github.com/articles/generating-an-ssh-key/

And then ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa to store the passphrase in Keychain.

Then add the following to ~/.ssh/config:

Host *
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

so that you don't need to do this everytime you login (see here).

macOS preferences

  • Scroll bars
    • System Preferences --> General
    • Show scroll bars: Always
    • Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the spot that's clicked
  • Enable three finger drag
  • Set clock to show date
  • Set battery to show percentage
  • Turn off autocorrect
    • System preferences --> Keyboard
    • Text tab
    • Uncheck the 3 boxes
  • Mail app keyboard shortcut for archive
    • System preferences --> Keyboard
    • Shortcuts, App shortcuts
    • "+"
    • Mail
    • Menu Title: Archive
    • Shortcut: Cmd+E
  • Turn off new mail sound
    • Mail --> Preferences --> General
    • New message sound: None
  • Show all file extensions
    • Finder --> Preferences --> Advanced --> Show all filename extensions
  • Chrome --> Chrome menu --> check "Warn before quitting" (to guard against pressing command-Q instead of command-W)
  • Make screenshots better
    • In terminal: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads/ so they go to Downloads instead of Desktop
    • Follow these instructions to remove the delay:
      • Command+Shift+5
      • Click on the Options button that appears in the controls
      • Uncheck "Show Floating Thumbnail"