My personal guide for setting up new machines. Last used January 2026 on MacOS Tahoe.

Getting Started

1. Download this repo as a .zip
2. Open Terminal and give it full disk access
3. Set system preferences - run sh scripts/set_preferences.sh
4. Install things
5. Set up apps
6. Guide for dev setup

Theming

• IDE: One Dark Pro, Fira Code
• Terminal: Zsh and pure prompt + Snazzy
• Slack #282A36,#324050,#324050,#57C7FF,#324050,#EFF0EB,#5AF78E,#FF5C57

Backing things up

• Update Brewfile: brew bundle dump --force
• Config files are backed up using Mackup (see Install things)

Timemachine exclusions

Spotlight exclusions

• ~/dev
• ~/Dropbox
• ~/Library
• /System
• /usr

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Inspiration

• https://sourabhbajaj.com/mac-setup/
• https://github.com/adamisntdead/DevMyMac
• https://github.com/pshirshov/initmac
• https://gist.github.com/kevinelliott/ab14cfb080cc85e0f8a415b147a0d895