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Personally going to start using the ~/Developer directory for all my projects now

by xyst 4y ago

frizzlebox 4y ago
I’ve been doing this for years, it’s a nice touch! Don’t forget to update the folder permissions to be like the others in your home directory. By default all users of your machine will have read access to the ~/Developer folder you create. And while you’re at it, might as well pin that folder to the left side of Finder.
KingLancelot 4y ago
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alpaca128 4y ago
Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed. One of the little details I miss from Linux. I usually call that directory just "dev", and use lowercase names for all custom directories so zsh completion actually works.
- marionauta 4y ago
  What I do is create a symbolic link to the "Developer" folder called "src". Both folders have the custom icon, and I can `cd src/project`!
- ttepasse 4y ago
  > Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed. For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in: chflags hidden ~/Music Still available in the shell or in the Finder with the ⇧⌘. shortcut but out of the way in normal use. Return to normal with the flag nohidden. Although Documents and Desktop seem to be a special case because of the iCloud shenanigans. I seem to have hidden them in the past, but can’t unhide them. :/
  - Maursault 4y ago
    > For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in: > chflags hidden ~/Music I sort of do the opposite. I hide any folders I add to the home directory chflags hidden ~/bin chflags hidden ~/Applications chflags hidden ~/sandbox so that in the unlikely event anyone sees my home directory, there is absolutely nothing interesting about it. "This looks like a clean install. Nothing to see here."
  - mattl 4y ago
    Where do you keep your music?
    - raldi 4y ago
      Who keeps music?
      - mattl 4y ago
        There’s dozens of us
        jrochkind1 4y ago
        me too! we should all meet for a beer sometime.
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jrochkind1 4y ago
I've been using ~/code, but if I can get a fancy sidebar icon, why not switch?
- jbverschoor 4y ago
  Just set the icon yourself?
  - jrochkind1 4y ago
    There is no way I am aware of to set the icon in the sidebar, the consensus of the thread here seems to be that there is no such way.

Personally going to start using the ~/Developer directory for all my projects now

by xyst 4y ago

Personally going to start using the ~/Developer directory for all my projects now

I’ve been doing this for years, it’s a nice touch! Don’t forget to update the folder permissions to be like the others in your home directory. By default all users of your machine will have read access to the ~/Developer folder you create. And while you’re at it, might as well pin that folder to the left side of Finder.

KingLancelot 4y ago

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alpaca128 4y ago

Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed. One of the little details I miss from Linux. I usually call that directory just "dev", and use lowercase names for all custom directories so zsh completion actually works.

marionauta 4y ago
What I do is create a symbolic link to the "Developer" folder called "src". Both folders have the custom icon, and I can `cd src/project`!
ttepasse 4y ago
> Too bad its first letter collides with Desktop, Downloads and Documents, all of which cannot be removed. For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in: chflags hidden ~/Music Still available in the shell or in the Finder with the ⇧⌘. shortcut but out of the way in normal use. Return to normal with the flag nohidden. Although Documents and Desktop seem to be a special case because of the iCloud shenanigans. I seem to have hidden them in the past, but can’t unhide them. :/
- Maursault 4y ago
  > For a "clean" home directory I started to visible hide default folders I have no interest in: > chflags hidden ~/Music I sort of do the opposite. I hide any folders I add to the home directory chflags hidden ~/bin chflags hidden ~/Applications chflags hidden ~/sandbox so that in the unlikely event anyone sees my home directory, there is absolutely nothing interesting about it. "This looks like a clean install. Nothing to see here."
- mattl 4y ago
  Where do you keep your music?
  - raldi 4y ago
    Who keeps music?
    - mattl 4y ago
      There’s dozens of us
      - jrochkind1 4y ago
        me too! we should all meet for a beer sometime.

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jrochkind1 4y ago

I've been using ~/code, but if I can get a fancy sidebar icon, why not switch?

jbverschoor 4y ago
Just set the icon yourself?
- jrochkind1 4y ago
  There is no way I am aware of to set the icon in the sidebar, the consensus of the thread here seems to be that there is no such way.