Automatically set up your Mac and configure macOS using ./freshinstall

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Recently I configured my new MacBook Pro. I decided to start with a clean slate and not migrate anything from my old MacBook. To configure macOS I whipped up ./freshinstall, which automates that process.

Steps included are:

  1. Configure macOS Preferences and the like
  2. Generate and load SSH keys
  3. Install the essentials: XCode, Git, Homebrew
  4. Copy over my (starter) dotfiles (also contained in the repo)
  5. Install (and sometimes also configure) all most of the software that I use.

The heavy lifting is done by defaults and Homebrew + Homebrew-Cask. Thanks to the aforementioned mas-cli, I’m also able to automatically install software from the Mac App Store.

Many of the settings are inspired upon the work of others. Mainly Mathias Bynens his dotfiles repo came in handy, along with a few other repos and of course the use of a few Google Search Coupons.

./freshinstall →

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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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