Setting up a new machine

January 14, 2020

Here’s a bunch of links to software or configuration steps I do whenever I start developing on a new machine. I’ve got sections for Windows or Linux specific links and a section common to both.

This post is mostly a reference for me so I don’t have to hunt down all these links again but probably useful for someone else as well.

Common setup

• VSCode: https://code.visualstudio.com/
  • Extensions
    • Prettier
    • Markdown All in One
    • markdownlint

Windows setup

• Install chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/install
  • Use to install git and keepass-plugin-http
• Git Credential Manager for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-for-Windows
• KDiff3
  • Download: http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
  • Configure in git: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33308482/git-how-configure-kdiff3-as-merge-tool-and-diff-tool
  • Alternative I’ve been exploring that also support Windows/Mac/Linux: https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/
• Configure notepad as commit editor

Linux setup

• Install via apt
  • kdiff3
• Oh My Zsh
  • https://ohmyz.sh/
  • sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
  • Powerlevel 10k theme: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
  • Zsh plugin to configure node version manager: https://github.com/lukechilds/zsh-nvm
• Git autocomplete (in zsh): https://medium.com/@oliverspryn/adding-git-completion-to-zsh-60f3b0e7ffbc
• Keychain to cache sshkey password
  • eval `keychain --eval --agents ssh id_rsa` in ~/.zshrc

Mac setup

• Install
  • Scroll Reverser
  • Clocker (to view UTC time from bar at top of MacOS)
  • Alfred
  • SensibleSideButtons
  • Spectacle
  • Fantastical 2 (to put my gcal in the bar the calendar that slides out from the side)