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The 10 tools I install on every new Mac I get

Christian Heilmann on September 14, 2023

I am currently on a company trip with my brand new MacBook and here are the things I always install first to get started: Homebrew - makes insta...
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Fyodor •

Don't you use something like Alfred or Raycast?

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Christian Heilmann •

No, I'm OK with spotlight

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Scott Eppler •

I'm a fan of Raycast! :)

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Konstantin Mednikov •

And also Script Kit. You can do a lot of really cool stuff with it if you can write typescript code.

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Jake Lundberg •

Raycast is so great! I love having such quick and convenient access to ChatGPT (as well as other plugins).

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Manuel Artero Anguita 🟨 •

Saved πŸ‘Œ

My 2 cents (maybe you use some alternatives to these?)

  • jumpcut: clipboard manager (free)
  • spectacles: resize and move windows using shortcuts (free)
  • iterm2: terminal (free)
  • Spotify (usually hits my brand new laptop before the terminal xD)
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Christian Heilmann •

spotify is on my TV and running in the background or on my phone :)

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Zakaria Hashmi •

Add docker desktop to it

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Christian Heilmann •

As I don't use it, I won't :)

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Vuong •

OrbStack is the one if you feel Docker is too slow and heavy on local env.

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Cherlock Code πŸ”Ž •

Thanks great tools! I've bookmarked this to remind myself to add some of these to devpages.io, a directory I built for finding developer tools and resources πŸ™‚