macOS clean install and installing necessary dev applications

Reformatting macOS is quite easy, but let's see what I do next, for my

• Office work
• Dev hobby
• Language learning (Japanese, Chinese)

Office work

• Try my best to find NTFS driver for macOS
• Install Microsoft Office 2016 (Having previous ID is already enough)
• Install Dropbox and Google Drive.
• Chrome browser and/or Chromium
• Enable these feature, which are, for some reasons, disabled by default

• Tap to click

• App expose

• Three finger drag -- This one is a little tricky as it is hidden in Accessibilities

• Tweak Dock Settings. -- These are my settings.

• Remove many icons in the dock, and put in necessary ones.

Dev

• Homebrew -- it is needed to install much of dev tools.
• Xcode -- Xcode has needed compilers for macOS, when it also includes IDE. Xcode is shit, in that it might need 20+ GB to run installer, and takes about 15 GB disk space. It is also needed for many dev tools on macOS (the ones that use xcode-build).
• Setup Git settings -- https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/setting-your-commit-email-address

• Node version manager

  • Node.js is a JavaScript runtime outside a browser.
  • I use v10.17.0 to ensure that it is compatible with most CLI and CMS.
  • I use this instead of downloading Node.js from the official website, or installing directly via Homebrew

• pvenv

  • Python is already present on macOS, but it is Python 2. pyenv helps manage Python versions better than the official website itself.
  • Ruby has the same problems. You should look for rvm or rbenv if you plan on using Ruby or install Jekyll.

• Visual Studio Code and/or VSCodium -- best editor for TypeScript (and probably JavaScript).

  • I haven't developed much liking to WebStorm in order to purchase it. (My impression? -- much similar to VSCode.)
  • I failed to customize Atom IDE to my liking. I prefer to have both VSCode and VSCodium on my computer instead.
  • Sublime Text might be OK, but I haven't tried it for a while. -- I tend to think that commercial-backed products might be better than free counterparts.
  • I also ditched TextMate, BTW.

• Android Studio, first run, and clone and run a package using NDK.

  • I also installed Flutter via Homebrew, to take advantage of flutter doctor

Language learning

• For Chinese (Mandarin) language, I use Sogou input engine.
• For Japanese language, I use Google input engine.
• For Thai language, I just use macOS's.