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Setting up a Mac for Development

CJ R. on August 01, 2022

I recently (July 2022) wiped and reloaded my MacBook Pro with macOS Monterey. I documented my process and the tools / apps / settings I use on a da...

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Diego Romero • Aug 3 '22

I recommend Raycast, alternative for Alfred, Rectangle, Clipboard Manager, etc. All in one

Jake Carpenter • Sep 9 '22

+1 for Raycast. At this point, I manage Docker containers from it, use it to trigger my screenshots and screen recordings, search 1Password items, and navigate Jira.

Ben Sinclair • Aug 1 '22

Where you use keepingyouawake I use amphetamine. I imagine they're fairly similar.

I also use barrier so I can use the mouse and keyboard on my proper computer to control the Mac just by moving my mouse to its screen.

Eljay-Adobe • Aug 2 '22

I <3 Barrier.

Andreas Riedmüller • Aug 2 '22

I can recommend Flycut (Clipboard manager), the best I found so far. Text only and simple/fast to use.

As a notetaking app I used to have nvAlt and switched to IA Writer which is also quite ok. On the phone I use 1Writer with the same Dropbox folder.

TvO • Aug 3 '22

Clipy is also very nice. Very straight forward in usage and clean UI

Ishan Parlikar • Aug 11 '22

You can also check maccy. Install with brew

Rik Lempens • Aug 11 '22 • Edited

Thanks for this article!

For keepingyouawake you can also use the builtin command caffeinate

You can use the following command line options:

-d  -- prevent display sleep
-i  -- prevent system idle sleep
-m  -- prevent disk idle sleep
-s  -- prevent system sleep (AC power only)
-t  -- specify assertion timeout value
-u  -- declare that user is active
-w  -- wait for specified PID