MacOS

These notes reflect on a personal Macbook Pro setup based on the M1 chip.

Basics

By following this tutorial, one is able to get started quicker by installing multiple apps (if not most of them) with a single bash script using homebrew.

If you’re using NodeJS, comment out node from that tutorial’s bash script, since it will be installed & managed by nvm, which is manually installed at the end of that tutorial.

Sidecar

Recent iPads have a feature as an app to extend your Macbook’s screen unto the iPad, as an additional monitor.

I ran into issues with this, specifically with getting the iPad to use iCloud Drive (a requirement). Once setting up my account to support iCloud Drive through the iCloud website, then the iPad begun using it. The Settings Menu to toggle iCloud Drive’s prompt for using it would not work.

Amethyst

Tiling window manager for macOS, works similar to xmonad.

Official

Watching

• Yabai
  • window tiling