How I Set Up A New Laptop For Development

How I Set Up A New Laptop For Development

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[EngineerMan]

Insomnia is indeed the EM approved choice for API testing!

[Ctrl_Alt_Elite]

The part about setting up Git brought me comfort 😂 I always forget things if I don't do them often... but it makes me question my competence as a dev when I forget, so thanks haha 😆

[apurvag]

It's good to see u come back...
Like you are.

[harshitpdoshi]

Hey Kalle! Loved the video. I would love to see more of project-based content, similar to the one where you built an entire app using Flutter and a Python back-end. I learnt a lot from that particular series of videos and so more of that type of content is always welcome to me.

Thanks!

[ajaayvirsingh]

Great video man. Love your content every time.

[jacobbrown]

Kalle, have you ever thought about delving into configuration management tools such as Ansible? I recently converted my windows pc to run Debian and I was able to automate the setup of it via Ansible. The setup included downloading tools such as VSCode, VMWare Workstation, Wireshark, etc as well as things like chrome and Spotify. Automating it would make for a really cool video and may save you some time in the future

[-exe]

Im saving this to my playlist for when i get my laptop!!

[joetessier]

you forgot Spotify in the environment section 😜

[bradyredding]

Love the new video! Super cool, keep up the good work!

[irhas]

In my opinion, this is the most rare advice for programmers, very helpful

[abhirammadhav]

I just love His Intro. It's amazing.

[AlecSchneider]

You should look into automating the setup process by creating dotfiles/scripts :)

[TaylorBrauer]

Great video. I setup my machines a similar way and I also like to setup iTerm with oh-my-zsh, powerlines, plugins, and aliases. I'm a web dev so I usually have an alias called 'UI' and one called 'API' that takes me directly to whatever current project I'm working on. Anyways, thanks for sharing!

[christinadeligiorgi]

Your content is always to the point ❣️

[justinphiri]

This is like the first time I'm watching a YouTube video that was uploaded like hours ago. :)

[thanoskoutr]

As some others said, you should look into dotfiles to setup all your configs and installs with just a shell script. I have made scripts for all my basic installs on a new machine. Here is a vague list of what i usually do:
1. Install basic terminal tools: vim, git, tree, bat, ...
2. Install ZSH and set up theme, aliases, neovim, aliases, plugins.
3. Set up github ssh keys.
4. Install code editor (atom, vscode)
5. Setup all my dotfiles, configs for these apps / programs.
6. And then all other programming environments that I use

[paweosmolski]

You could improve your workflow a lot by installing zsh shell, oh-my-zsh plus some plugins (like autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, fzf - a wonderful fuzzy finder, git completion and vi-mode - to use vim key bindings in terminal). You'll write less, do more and surely have much more fun with the terminal

[milkiasyeheyis]

Kalle saying this takes a long time to install.
Me: installs everything in one command using the aur.

[berkates]

THANK YOU. my M1 Macbook hopefully arrives on Wednesday. Good that I saw your video.

[buddymiles]

Firefox provides container logins, which is really useful when switching between saying the dev and prod aws accounts that might be set up, or multiple gmail account from within the same window :)