Applications

Chrome Extensions

• Animation Policy: Disable animated GIFs.
• Open Slack in Browser, not App
• Stylus: Apply custom CSS to any website.
• Tampermonkey: Apply custom Javascript to any website.
• uBlock Origin Lite: Ad blocker.
• Unhook: Remove distractions from YouTube.
• Video Speed Controller: Change default playback speed on YouTube.

Apps

• Alfred: A better Spotlight.
• Gmail
  • Gmail Search Operators: In particular, {} braces for "OR", and has:nouserlabels are very useful for custom filters.
• Hub
  • Create alias for making pull requests
• Ice: Menu bar item control.
• iTerm2: Replaces Terminal on my Mac.
  • How to see invisible text in iTerm2: iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Colors -> Minimum contrast -> Move slider about a third of the way.
  • Open new tabs in iTerm in the current directory: iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles -> General -> Working Directory -> Reuse previous session's directory.
  • Turn off command highlighting: iTerm2 -> Preferences -> General -> Selection -> Clicking on a command selects it to restrict Find and Filter -> off.
  • Turn off mark indicators: iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Terminal -> Shell Integration -> Show mark indicators -> off.
  • Configure RubyMine Keyboard Shortcuts in iTerm2
  • Supercharge your workflow with profiles and arrangements
• KeepingYouAwake: Keep Mac awake.
• Rectangle: Move and resize windows with keyboard shortcuts.
• RubyMine: Ruby IDE.
  • AltN8: Jump from source to test file.
  • CamelCase: Switch easily between SNAKE_CASE, PascalCase, camelCase, snake_case.
    • Configure plugin: Preferences -> Editor -> Camel Case
    • You'll need to unbind the default key mapping for <Shift+Option+U> for the CamelCase key binding to be active.
  • Configure Sublime Keyboard Shortcuts in RubyMine
  • Disable extraneous RubyMine plugins
  • Enable mnemonics: For enabling keyboard shortcuts in dialog prompts during refactoring.
  • entr: Use to run tests.
  • File Watcher: Create a File Watcher to format Ruby on save using a script which calls RuboCop. A script is necessary to ensure that 'bundle exec' is used to call RuboCop. You can make the File Watcher global across projects.
  • Markdown plugin for IntelliJ not showing preview
  • Prettier RubyMine plugin: Format JavaScript on save.

• Sourcetree: Git client.
• Zed: My preferred text editor.
• ZoomHider: Hide zoom bar and disable Zoom from capturing the [escape] key.

Mac Configuration

• Disable extraneous macOS keyboard shortcuts (eliminate conflicts with RubyMine).
• Disable the beep when I perform an invalid action
• Exclude home directory from Spotlight (eliminate needless indexing).
• Show Battery percentage
• Three Finger Drag: System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackpad Options -> Enable dragging -> three finger drag.
• Turn off sound on startup
• Turn off Transparency in Accessibility options

Developer Setup

• My dotfiles
• entr: A utility for running arbitrary commands when files change.
  • Run JavaScript tests
  • Run Ruby tests
• Homebrew: Package Manager for macOS.
  • brew bundle: Bundler for Homebrew.
  • brew rmtree: Remove a formula and its unused dependencies.
• stow
  • Using GNU stow to manage your dotfiles
  • Managing dotfiles with GNU stow
  • Using stow to manage .gitignore
• tldr: Simplified man pages.
• zsh
  • zsh-autosuggestions
  • zsh-syntax-highlighting
  • zsh-you-should-use

• Miscellaneous:

  # Gitignore .DS_Store files
  echo .DS_Store >> ~/.gitignore
  
  # Remove the 'Last login' message from the Terminal
  touch ~/.hushlogin
  
  # Speed up gem installs
  echo "gem: --no-document" >> ~/.gemrc
  

Products

• Good Inside: Parenting workshops.
• Massager: Relieve tight muscles.
• PowerBlocks: Strengthen your muscles.
• T25: Strengthen your heart.
• Wealthsimple: Max out your RRSPs and RESPs with automated monthly deposits.
• Wealthsimple Tax: Do taxes with ease.