A co-worker is thinking of moving to a Mac so I had to whip up a quick list of my minimum needs (discounting homebrew-installed CLI tools).
- TextMate – http://macromates.com
- (or) Sublime Text – http://www.sublimetext.com
- (or) Built in editors: Vim, Emacs, Nano
- Homebrew – http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/
- Sensible OS X defaults: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
- Read the comments, change the host name, comment out things you DON’T want to change, etc.
- Bash It – https://github.com/revans/bash-it
- Transmit (in app store) – http://www.panic.com/transmit/
- Transmission (in app store) – http://www.transmissionbt.com
- f.lux – http://stereopsis.com/flux/
- Evernote (in app store) – https://evernote.com
- 1Password (in app store) – https://agilebits.com/onepassword/
- Alfred (in app store) – http://www.alfredapp.com/







