System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys

Caps Lock => Escape
Control => fn/Globe
Option => Option
Command => Command
fn/Globe => Control

System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > +

• All applications

Close Tab => Control-w
Copy => Control-c
Paste => Control-v

• Google Chrome / Other Browswers

New Tab => Control-t

• Add workspaces

  • Applications > Mission Control > Plus Icon

• Add shortcuts to move between workspaces

  • System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control

Move left a space => Control-Command-Left Arrow
Move right a space => Control-Command-Right Arrow

• Create an Automator service

• Launchpad > Automator > File > New > Quick Action

• Change Workflow receives current dropdown to no input

alacritty

• Drag Run Shell Script to workflow box

• Get the path to Alacritty and enter it in text area

  which alacritty
  

  /usr/local/bin/alacritty </dev/null &>/dev/null &
  

  Then be sure to add a matching keybinding to .alacritty.toml, because this will not open a new window if alacritty is already focused

.alacritty.toml

[[keyboard.bindings]]
action = 'SpawnNewInstance'
key = 'T'
mods = 'Control|Command'

default terminal

• Drag Run AppleScript to workflow box

• Enter the following command in text area

  tell application "Terminal"
    do script ""
    activate
  end tell
  

• Save the quick action: File > Save (with name like AutomatorActionName)

• Set the keyboard shortcut: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > General > AutomatorActionName

A note on homebrew installations:

If you are getting a SHA-256 mismatch:

• Remove downloaded .gz / .zip file from cache directory

brew --cache packagename

• Download matching release from githuub
• Overwrite downloaded file from github to cache using mv
• Install via

brew upgrade packagename

• Settings
  • Make Chrome default browser
  • Make Chrome open tabs "where last left off"

Make sure Slack notifications are on System Preferences > Sounds and Notifications > Slack > Enable

• Git autocomplete in terminal https://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/how-to-enable-git-tab-autocomplete-on-your-mac/

• Use the Uninstall 'code' command in the PATH command before the "Install 'code' command in PATH" command.

• Download and install config from https://github.com/tecfu/vscode-config

brew edit vim

system "./configure", "--prefix=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
                      "--mandir=#{man}",
                      "--enable-multibyte",
                      "--with-features=huge",

brew install --build-from-source vim
brew link vim

• Remap tile-left, tile right, tile right-top ... etc

brew install --cask rectangle

• Tracks clipboard history

brew install --cask jumpcut

• Use to cycle windows, whereas mac native cycles by applications

brew install --cask alt-tab

Preferences

• Keybinding: <alt-tab>
• Minimized Windows: Hide
• Hidden Windows: Hide

brew install tree

• surfingkeys https://github.com/tecfu/Surfingkeys/tree/hack_hint_sizes
  • Best known vim plugin (> vimium, > vimium-c)
• Duplicate Tab: https://github.com/stefansundin/duplicate-tab