My macOS programs and setup

In the off-chance you're reading this today, happy new year! If you're reading this later, I hope $CURRENT_YEAR is treating you well.

Before this post, I kept a list of my programs in my iCloud in case my computer broke or I was setting up a work laptop. After some recent events, I trust iCloud less than I once did, and figured the list can live here instead. Like the rest of my blog, this exists for me but hopefully you find it useful too. I plan to write an Arch Linux version of this soon.

I try to use open-source where I can. If you know of an alternative to the few closed applications I use, please let me know!

• Firefox Nightly
  • Chrome for testing sites
• VisualStudio Code
• iTerm 2
• BetterTouchTool allows advanced customization of the touchbar ($9 after 45 days)
  • GoldenChaos preset
• Homebrew is a package manager
  • Handles installing Xcode developer tools
• Rectangle lets you resize and snap windows with your keyboard
• Fish is user-friendly shell (seriously, I hate zsh/bash now)
  • Fisher: Fish plugin manager
  • fish-nvm: nvm wrapper
• NextDNS is a secure DNS service (I downloaded the macOS client from the App Store)
• LastPass is my password manager, but I'm currently looking to start self-hosting.
• Insomnia is my favorite REST client
• IINA is a nice media player
• VIA Configurator configures my keyboard
• Lagrange for viewing Gemini articles
• yarn is my node package manager of choice
• MySQL Workbench for managing my few MySQL servers
• TeXMaker for the rare times I need to write LaTeX
• I'm going to try and use the Slack and Zoom browser versions
• Qemu: brew install qemu
• thefuck: brew install thefuck, command line correction tool
  • Add thefuck --alias | source to ~/.config/fish/config.fish
• imagemagick: brew install imagemagick
• ffmpeg: brew install ffmpeg