Quick setup for my development environment 💻

macOS

• Install Homebrew and some packages with macos/init-setup-macos.sh, which includes calling
  1. macos/install-homebrew.sh - for non-admin setup (install things in ${HOME}/Applications/ instead);
  2. macos/install-brew-packages.sh - for installing selected apps/packages;
  3. set up general config/dot files;
  4. set up aliases - .aliases-macos;
  5. macos/update-dev-env.sh, for additional dev environment setups; e.g., default python/nodejs versions.
• Set up iTerm2
  1. Install iTerm2 with brew
  2. Enable iTerm2 in VS Code integrated terminal (zsh)
  3. Set up oh-my-zsh with advanced theme (recommended Powerlevel10k)
     • see useful-tools/oh-my-zsh/install-oh-my-zsh.macos.sh
• Notes for non-admin setup
  • Two separate Applications folders
    1. /Applications usually requires admin to add apps there.
    2. /Users/<your username>/Applications is where we typically install additional apps without needing admin right.
  • For non-admin setup, either:
    1. Using Homebrew via CLI. To use Homebrew you must install it as a non-root user, essentially letting Homebrew store it’s tools under your user directory. See this macos/install-homebrew.sh.
    2. Websites that provide .dmg files where we drag to the app folder.

Windows + WSL

• Set up Windows - install Chocolatey and some packages with Init-chocolatey-windows.bat
• Set up WSL Ubuntu dev environment
• Set up Docker Desktop WSL
• Set up aliases

Set up tools for specific development work

• Set up VS Code with my settings and user snippets in kyhau/vscode-configs
• Set up git config for multiple GitHub accounts
• Set up gh (GitHub CLI) multi-account switch
• Some of my scripts for installing Useful tools for development
• kyhau/aws-tools - my tools/scripts for building with AWS

Locations of some useful files or directories

• Chrome History %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\History
• Firefox container file: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xx\containers.json
• GitHub CLI (gh) oauth_token location (Windows): %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\GitHub CLI
• GitHub CLI (gh) oauth_token location (WSL): ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml
• Taskbar shortcuts pinned by admin (CustomTaskbarLayoutCollection): %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\LayoutModification.xml
• WSL 1 Ubuntu home: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_xxx\LocalState\rootfs\home\username
• WSL 2 Ubuntu home: \\wsl$\Ubuntu

Some useful links