How To Setup Your MacBook For Maximum Developer Productivity | 2023

In this video, I'll show you my MacBook setup for maximum development productivity in 2023. I'll share my personal setup, including the essential apps and MacOS settings that will transform the way you work.

🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:00 General productivity-specific tools
10:18 Developer-specific tools
15:41 BONUS: Finder settings
18:05 Outro

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[mikechurvis]

I start a job on Monday and they'll be giving me a MacBook. You're right on time! Great video.

[redabitar]

Can I suggest something? I think it’s better to increase the scale of the display when you’re recording. Especially on mobile, it makes it much easier to see small text, and for example if the video quality is low it will still be clear :)
Great video!!

[killaurnext]

rectangle is great! makes it more windows like!

[davidbearden]

I can only attempt to express how thankful I am for this video! clear, concise, immediately actionable. you resolved a lot of minor annoyances, notably finder and added several tools to my productivity workflow. keep up the amazing content, and hope to continue to receive insightful knowledge such as this!

[japandi]

Thank you so much. I’ve just reformatted my M1 to use it for Python programming and this was such a big help to create a nice blank yet productive base to work from.

[rwz]

Never blur passwords, always completely remove/blackout!

[Leofmoura]

Raycast is pretty good to be added to your list. Thanks for the video

[michaellogan]

great viedo, any chance you could run through how you have set up some of the tools (specifically iTerm2)?

[samsung_media]

Lots of overlap 😊
- Notion alternative - Quiver (free - but you can donate)
- Maccy - Dittostack (paid)
- Rectangle - BetterTouchTool (paid)

[danienell]

really enjoy watching your videos, just got my mac today, and you know whos youtube I will be watching 😎

[tommybrecher]

Thanks for this! I was actually asking about fig in your poetry video without realizing 😂

[EmanuelRamneantu]

Very good video for people switching to mac. Thank you!

[danineira]

One question, do you recommend a MacBook air m3 16Gb to develop Apps with KMP? Is it enough to use Android Studio XCode with different emulators? Or it is worth jumping to the 18Gb macbook pro m3 pro. Thank you very much for your videos.

[ThePaulWilliams]

Espanso is a free text replacement option - open source.

[wjrasmussen]

I am an old CS person. Through the 80s - 2011 I was using Sun servers running Sun OS or Solaris. I am tired of using Microsoft. Seeing these new MacBook Pro M3 laptops, I am thinking of getting one. Love the command line. Any thoughts about switching? I want to have at least one other monitor at home perhaps two.

[jeffgruenbaum]

Thank you so much for this video. Some great suggestions!

[rizwanhameed]

Werkt Rocket Typist ook binnen de Microsoft suite? Ik gebruik al een tijdje de macOS text replacement maar vind het wel irritant dat het niet altijd lukt.

[CatDogDailyPosts]

Your keyboard sounds fantastic! What model is it?

[jjc]

Could you provide details how you setup this window whci appears after you clicked shortcut in iTerm2?

[echoes]

I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but Emmett has an expansion where you type lorem# (# is some number) and it expands to that many words of lorem ipsum filler.