UPDATE 2025-02-27 Replaced asdf for mise. I had some oddities pop up on the latest asdf update that I didn’t have with mise and mise seems to work nicer.

Sometimes I like to wipe my Macbook and start over but I forget some little things that make starting over frustrating.

I am not going to give full detail instructions on how I install it. I usually just follow the steps from the project site. I will only include nuances that I may do different or in addition to the normal steps.

App List:

• Homebrew - https://brew.sh
• oh-my-zsh - https://ohmyz.sh
• Docker - https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/mac-install/
• My dotfiles - https://github.com/haydenk/dotfiles
• asdf - https://asdf-vm.com
• 1Password - https://1password.com
• MonitorControl - https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl

First thing first, xcode-select --install, we want to install the Command Line Tools to get some basic packages installed. More specifically, we want git installed so we can clone Homebrew, oh-my-zsh, and the dotfiles.

While we’re at it we will go ahead and install rosetta, softwareupdate --install-rosetta. I don’t really like installing this if I don’t have to but there’s some versions in asdf that do not have an arm version for Apple Silicon.

Homebrew, oh-my-zsh, and dotfiles are the first to be installed. There is no particular order. Homebrew gets installed in the user’s home directory under ~/.brew, I don’t have to worry about system conflicts or permission issues in the home directory because I have full access here.

I basically use the information from topbug.net with some revisions.

• https://www.topbug.net/blog/2013/04/14/install-and-use-gnu-command-line-tools-in-mac-os-x/

Homebrew Packages

• ansible
• asdf
• awscli
• binutils
• bzip2
• coreutils
• curl
• diffutils
• findutils
• gawk
• gnu-getopt
• gnu-sed
• gnu-tar
• gnu-which
• gzip
• grep
• gcc
• gh
• git
• git-flow-avh
• jq
• libpq
• make
• mise
• mysql-client
• [email protected]
• openssl
• pwgen
• session-manager-plugin
• sqlite
• tree
• vim
• wget
• zsh
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting

macOS UI Applications from Homebrew

• firefox
• github
• google-chrome
• slack
• visual-studio-code
• zoom