MacBook Pro M1 Developer Setup 2022

I just picked up a new MacBook Pro M1 and decided to take this opportunity to document all of the various applications that I use on a daily basis.

My go to browser for the past year has been Brave. As a web developer, it offers me everything that Chrome offers, but seems to run more efficiently and I earn rewards simply by browsing

Notion is my second brain. This is where I organize all of my thoughts, ideas, personal projects, todo lists, work, finances, etc.

Alfred is a better Spotlight. I don't even use the dock anymore. Everything I do on my MacBook starts with CMD+SPACE. You can configure Alfred to index your entire hard-drive, which makes searching and opening individual files super easy.

I used to be a Windows dev and one thing I immediately missed when switching to a MacBook was window snapping. Spectacle is the missing window snapping tool for MacBook. I use CMD + OPTION + ← OR → to snap windows to the left or right of my screen.

Let's be real, if you aren't jamming out on Spotify while coding, are you even coding? Personally, I love LOFI. Haters may hate.

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