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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

Citrix workspace

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

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