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Ask HN: What OS X software / tweaks / tricks can you not live without?
I recently switched to a mac for my primary development machine, and I'm trying to get used to the ecosystem. Development tools, terminal tweaks and that kind of thing, but anything else that you would immediately put on a new mac.
- natch 11y agoThis has been covered many times. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=setup%20mac%20for%20development https://duckduckgo.com/?q=setup%20mac%20for%20development In the future if you want better help for a question like this, you should state whether you're familiar with UNIX or not, what type of development you do, what stack you develop for, what languages, what you have already done. etc.
- rrggrr 11y agoHomebrew alfred Spectacle Bartender Textbar Geektool Xtools Pushbullet Mixmax menubar extension
- rutigs 11y agoI'll give this a go. Above all I think the most essential tool for me is Spectacle https://www.spectacleapp.com/ https://www.spectacleapp.com/ Homebrew is also a requirement. Iterm2 to replace the default terminal. I also added this https://github.com/SebastienElet/iterm2-borderless https://github.com/SebastienElet/iterm2-borderless. Everything else is pretty developer specific in my opinion. I'd recommend Visual Studio Code for a text editor (if you don't already have a preference). It has built-in git integration and installing new plugins is trivial.
- osxtweak 11y agoI won't say I can't live without them but here are a few I always do. These require a root shell. Install Xcode command line tools xcode-select --install verbose boot messages nvram boot-args="-v" make Library visible chflags nohidden ~/Library verify Time Machine backups tmutil compare
- lioeters 11y agoSome tools I use daily on OS X Atom: https://atom.io/ https://atom.io/ XtraFinder: http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/ http://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/ iTerm2: https://www.iterm2.com/ https://www.iterm2.com/ SourceTree: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ Asepsis: http://asepsis.binaryage.com/ http://asepsis.binaryage.com/ (This prevents creation of new .DS_Store files - nice but doesn't work anymore with OS X 10.11) homebrew, npm, git, bash aliases..