Mac Setup Guide

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I recently wiped my hard drives and freshly installed macOS Big Sur on my work laptop, and found it incredibly refreshing in a smaller form of starting fresh with my daily tools.

I had been thinking about this a bit only a couple of weeks earlier so I was already kind of prepared to set up my laptop from fresh but there were a few things that I had forgotten about until I needed them. I figured it would be useful to write up some of the things I did so I can revisit this post in the future and remember the things that I like to use on my computer.

Note: This post is still in progress!

CLI Tooling:

I couldn't think of a better title for this section but I consider this to encapsulate my CLI tooling that I rely on for being relatively productive when it comes to working within codebases.

First let's cover some fundamentals:

• Install Homebrew
  • We'll use this to install other tools below!
• Install Oh My ZSH

Configuring My Environment:

Configure Git:

TODO: Move these to a dotfiles repo!

git config --global user.name "