My 2024 New Mac Setup

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title: My 2024 New Mac Setup
description: I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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slug: new-mac-setup-2024
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I set up my new Macbook Pro (14 inch, 2023 M3 Max 36 GB RAM 1TB HD) today. Here's everything I use on a Mac.

Previous versions of this post: from 2018-2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. If I update this post in future, these contents will be archived but this URL will remain.

Scroll all the way to the bottom for lists and other Mac setup tools from friends!

diffs i'm making this year

don't install python the normal way. no conda, no brew python. use uv for python management.

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
source $HOME/.local/bin/env.fish
uv python install 3.12