Setting up your Dev Machine

We are assuming your dev machine is a Mac. This guide is rather opinionated, feel free to have your own opinion, and feel free to contribute! Contributing can be done by clicking "edit" top right and by making a pull request on this repository.

Things that should have been default on Mac

• Keep awake with Amphetamine
• Office DisplayLink software

• Homebrew as the missing Package Manager

  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
  

• Rectangle

  brew install --cask rectangle
  

Citrix workspace

• Citrix workspace
• Flex2Rijk to login

Communication

• WebEx for video conferencing

  brew install --cask webex
  

• Mattermost for team communication

  brew install --cask mattermost
  

• Tuple for pair programming and our standup

Terminal and shell

• Iterm2

  brew install --cask iterm2
  

• Oh My Zsh

  /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  

• Autosuggestions for zsh

  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
  

• Fish shell like syntax highlighting for Zsh

  brew install zsh-syntax-highlighting
  

• Add plugins to your shell in ~/.zshrc

  plugins = (
      # other plugins...
      zsh-autosuggestions
      kubectl
      docker
      docker-compose
      pyenv
      z
  )
  

• Touch ID in Terminal

Coding

• Sourcetree

  brew install --cask sourcetree
  

• Pyenv

  brew install pyenv
  

• pyenv virtualenv

  brew install pyenv-virtualenv
  

• pre-commit

  brew install pre-commit
  

• Xcode Command Line Tools

  xcode-select --install
  

• TabbyML Opensource, self-hosted AI coding assistant

  We can not just use hosted versions of coding assistants because of privacy and copyright issues. We can however use self-hosted coding assistants provided they are trained on data with permissive licenses.

  StarCoder (1-7B) models are all trained on version 1.2 of The Stack dataset. It boils down to all open GitHub code with permissive licenses (193 licenses in total). Minus opt-out requests.

  Code Lama and Deepseek models are not clear enough about their data licenses.

  brew install tabbyml/tabby/tabby
  tabby serve --device metal --model TabbyML/StarCoder-3B
  

  Then configure your IDE by installing a plugin.

• Sign commits using SSH