Mac Setup

No mouse and keyboard tab can’t focus?

Cmd+Opt+F5 -> Motor -> Full Keyboard Access

macOS Settings

1. General -> Software Update -> Update to latest
2. General -> About -> Name -> rename to unique and easy to remember name
3. General -> Date & Time -> 24-hour time -> turn on
4. Network -> Firewall -> turn on
5. Appearance -> Show scroll bars -> Always
6. Control Center -> Menu Bar Only -> Spotlight -> Don’t Show in Menu Bar
7. Desktop & Dock -> Position on screen -> Left (or Right, depends on display arrangement)
8. Desktop & Dock -> Automatically hide and show the Dock -> turn on
9. Desktop & Dock -> Tiled windows have margins -> turn off
10. Desktop & Dock -> Mission Control -> Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use -> turn off
11. Displays -> Night Shift… -> Schedule -> Sunset to Sunrise
12. Privacy & Security -> Security -> FileVault -> turn on
13. Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts… -> Input Sources -> Untick all, these conflicts with ctrl + space in code editor
14. Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts… -> Services -> File and Folders -> Tick “New iTerm Tab/Window here” (for opening iTerm2 via Finder context menu)
15. Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts… -> Modifier Keys -> Select keyboard (all keyboards) -> Caps Lock key -> set to Escape
16. Keyboard -> Dictation -> Shortcut -> turn off

Finder

1. Finder Settings -> Advanced -> When performing a search -> Search the Current Folder

Software (GUI)

Firefox

Sign in to existing Firefox account. Otherwise, import bookmarks and install these add-ons manually:

• 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
• Alt or not
• Bitwarden Password Manager
• Dark Reader
• Disable WebRTC
• Don’t Fuck With Paste
• Export Cookies
• I still don’t care about cookies
• Link Hints
• Minimal Theme for Twitter / X
• Old Reddit Redirect
• SearXNG
• Stylus
• uBlock Origin
  • Hide YouTube Shorts List
• Violentmonkey
• YouTube Music Volume Fixer

Paste

Restore old version from backup.

iTerm2

• Use macOS text editing shortcuts (e.g. Opt+<-/-> for word jumps), Settings -> Profiles -> Keys -> Key Bindings -> Presets -> Natural Text Editing

For theming, use presets:

bash -c "$(curl -sLo- https://git.io/vQgMr)"

Catppuccin Mocha (number 97)

https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh

Thunderbird

• (maybe) open Thunder first and close it to ensure profiles dir are created
• Unzip the backup profile
• In ~/Library/thunderbird/Profiles, replace the <...>.default-release with the backup profile
• Open Thunderbird to check if the profile is restored correctly

Raycast

• Install with cask (raycast) or via website.
• Disable Spotlight keyboard, Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts… -> Spotlight -> Show Spotlight search -> turn off
• Replace Raycast shorcut with Cmd+Space
• Hide Raycast menu bar icon
• Do not untick all Spotlight search results, it will break Finder group by kind

Software (App Store)

• Bitwarden

Software (CLI)

Homebrew

https://brew.sh/

brew install \
bat \
btop \
doggo \
fnm \
gh \
git \
jesseduffield/lazydocker/lazydocker \
jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit \
just \
lsd \
mcfly \
micro \
starship \
tlrc

brew install --cask \
font-fantasque-sans-mono-nerd-font \
iina \
raycast \
zed

zsh

https://github.com/darcien/dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc

Network Troubleshooting

https://fasterdata.es.net/performance-testing/network-troubleshooting-tools/

brew install iperf iperf3 nuttcp owamp

Changelog

• 2025-07-15: iTerm2 in finder and disable conflicting shortcuts
• 2025-05-30: add Firefox add-ons
• 2025-05-24: initial version