Macbook setup for development

Terminal setup

iTerm2

iTerm2 is a terminal for Macbook that is super useful, you can split screen vertically and horizontally to create as many nested terminals as you need and this way you can see both your app client and server, or k8s clusters etc at the same time. Super useful. A bit heavy though.

https://iterm2.com/downloads.html

zshell

zShell is my favourite customizable shell to replace the standard bash terminal on macos. You can see which cloud environment or k8s clusters you are in, which python environment you run in, customise your colours, themes and so much more.

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

With that, I suggest using the PowerLevel10K theme, super easy to install and configure. After installing,

Open ~/.zshrc, find the line that sets ZSH_THEME, and change its value to "powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"

configure it with:

p10k configure

Later on, you can open ~/.p10k and update colours with colour codes from the image below. I also suggest checking the POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS and POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTSas well as the Line #2 right after, in order to customize what goes on the left and right of your prompt, super cool things there!

You can also print all the colours in your terminal with

for i in {0..255}; do print -Pn “%K{$i} %k%F{$i}${(l:3::0:)i}%f “ ${${(M)$((i%6)):#3}:+$’\n’}; done


zshell autocompletion

To enable autocomplete and suggestions for commnds you run, there’s a super useful plug in for that. Run the following:

mkdir ~/.zshell_autocomplete && git clone https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git ~/.zshell_autocomplete

Then, add the following at the top of your ~/.zshrc file and look up for references of compinit and comment them out:

source ~/.zshell_autocomplete/zsh-autocomplete.plugin.zsh

vim

Setting up vim with colour coding, for example, comes in VERY useful if you have to modify configs etc on a daily basis. I create a ~/.vimrc file and add all my settings inside of it, check out below my content:

set number # set line numbers on or off
set ignorecase
set smartcase
syntax enable
set tabstop=4 # set indentation to 4 spaces
set autoindent # automatically indent with the same nr of tabs like the line above
set cursorline
set title # show current file name, being modified
set history=1000 # set undo limit to 1000
#set spell # ednable spell check


Git tips & tricks

aliases

I like setting up useful aliases to speed up my git experience, below are my most useful ones

git config --global alias.cob "checkout -b"
git config --global alias.st "status"
git config --global alias.co "checkout"
git config --global alias.cm "commit"
git config --global alias.po "push origin"
git config --global alias.reset "reset --soft HEAD~;" # reset committed changes which are NOT pushed yet


And let’s configure a tool to check the latest commits and get some useful info:

git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ refs/remotes --format='%(authordate:short) %(color:yellow)%(objectname:short) %(color:blue)%(refname:short)%(color:reset) | %(color:green)%(committerdate:relative)%(color:reset) => by%(color:red) %(committername)'


multipull

Pull multiple repos at once from the parent directory instead of pulling them one by one

alias multipull="find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -print -exec git -C {} pull \;"

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git browse

When you type git browse in the terminal from a repo, it opens the repo in your browser

• • the script originates from HERE, the file name is git-browse: Original article

Instructions:

Create a new file:

mkdir ~/.gitbin; touch ~/.gitbin/git-browse

NB!: The file name must start with git.

vi ~/.gitbin/git-browse

Then press i to insert and paste the content of the git browse file.

• press Escape and type `:wq`

• Add this to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:

export PATH=”$HOME/.gitbin:$PATH”

run

chmod +x ~/.gitbin/git-browse

• In a repo, run git browse origin and it will open in the browser.

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Python setup