My Mac Developing Environment

A list of all the different programs, packages, and tips for how I configure my Mac for development.

Installed From Terminal

Home Brew - helps you install packages from the command line more easily similar to linux’s package manager

Git - version control system

iTerm2 - terminal replacement

Oh My ZShell - customize the terminal

• I use the agnoster theme. To change open up ~/.zshrc file and change the following line

ZSH_THEME="agnoster"

• If the theme is not rendering properly in iTerm, then install Powerline fonts. Copy/paste the following to install. Then in iTerm preferences, check the option to Use a differnt font for non-ASCII text and switch the font to Mesio LG L for powerline. Screen shot

# clone
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git --depth=1
# install
cd fonts
./install.sh
# clean-up a bit
cd ..
rm -rf fonts

• Oh My ZShell Plugins that I use - plugins=(git adb vscode)
  • adb - Android Debug Bridge autocomplete plugin
  • git - aliases and autocomplete for git
  • vscode - aliases and autocomplete for visual studio code editor

Downloadable Applications

Visual Studio Code - text editor and markdown editor

• to open files from the command line follow these instructions
• git config --global core.editor "code --wait" - to configure git as the default editor

Sourcetree - version control GUI for Git repositories

Spectacle - window control management tool for Mac

Android Studio - IDE for developing Android applications

IntelliJ Idea - IDE that Android Studio was based off and I use for developing any Kotlin Multiplatform apps

Drop to GIF - easy tool to convert videos to GIFs that I use for adding GIFs to pull requests

Postgres.app - mac app that makes it dead simple to start up a PostgreSQL server

Bash Profile

Since I use Oh My ZShell, my bash profile is sourced from .zshrc file in my home directory as opposed to .bash_profile. My bash profile consists of a bunch of git aliases and helper functions for dealing with the Android SDK. For some Android specific bash profile functions & aliases, check out Android Bash Profile and Terminal Tricks

alias edit_profile='code ~/.zshrc'
alias source_profile='source ~/.zshrc'

alias gs='git status'
alias branches='git branch | cat'
alias rbranches='git branch -r | cat'
alias gamend='git commit --amend'

# remove the user name and machine from the start of the terminal prompt
# should only readout the current file name. 
export DEFAULT_USER="$(whoami)"

# when ran from the root of a git repo, will take an argument for the branch name
# will then check if your current work station is clean, if not you can type "stash" to stash them
# or will do nothing and not checkout the branch
# After finished reviewing code, hit enter and it will remove the code reviewed branch from your local machine 
# and checkout your existing branch
code_review() {
  branch=$(git branch | sed -n -e 's/^\* \(.*\)/\1/p')
  git diff-index --quiet HEAD
  if [ $? = 1 ]; then
    echo "Branch: $branch is dirty, if you would like to stash your changes type stash"
    read input
  if [ "$input" = "stash" ]; then
    git stash
    git fetch
    git checkout $1
    echo "Hit enter when you are done reviewing this branch"
    read userInput
    git reset --hard
    git checkout $branch
    git branch -d $1
    git stash pop
  else
    echo "Cool, nothing happened"
  fi;
  else
    git fetch
    git checkout $1
    echo "Hit enter when you are done reviewing this branch"
    read userInput
    git reset --hard
    git checkout $branch
    git branch -d $1
  fi
}

Change Location of Where Screenshots Get Saved

Open up a terminal and enter the following two commands.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location <folder location>
killall SystemUIServer

For me, I typically save any screenshots in ~/Pictures/screenshots.

Then if you would like even quicker access to your screenshots, I will click and drag that folder to the bottom right section of dock next to Downloads.

Then whenever you take a screen shot, you will see it show up in your bottom toolbar.

Just a reminder to take a screen shot of the whole screen, you can use the following command.

Then to take a screen shot of just a portion of the screen you can use: