Developer Experience Tips

Helpful key shortcuts for MacOS

• Cmd + Shift + 4 = take screenshot to Desktop
• Cmd + Shift + Ctrl + 4 = take screenshot to Clipboard
• Cmd + Shift + 5 = take screenshot/recording or update screenshot defaults

Helpful apps

homebrew

to manage app installation from cli

see https://brew.sh/

flycut

A nice paste buffer.

Helpful key shortcuts - Cmd + Shift + v = open paste buffer menu

tldr

tldr gives you nice digestible examples for cli programs:

#> tldr sed

sed

Edit text in a scriptable manner.
See also: `awk`, `ed`.
More information: <https://keith.github.io/xcode-man-pages/sed.1.html>.

- Replace all `apple` (basic regex) occurrences with `mango` (basic regex) in all input lines and print the result to `stdout`:
    command | sed 's/apple/mango/g'

- Execute a specific script [f]ile and print the result to `stdout`:
    command | sed -f path/to/script_file.sed

- Replace all `apple` (extended regex) occurrences with `APPLE` (extended regex) in all input lines and print the result to `stdout`:
    command | sed -E 's/(apple)/\U\1/g'

- Print just a first line to `stdout`:
    command | sed -n '1p'

- Replace all `apple` (basic regex) occurrences with `mango` (basic regex) in a `file` and save a backup of the original to `file.bak`:
    sed -i bak 's/apple/mango/g' path/to/file

ohmyzsh

My preferred way to work in the terminal.

see https://ohmyz.sh/

https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/master/plugins/dotenv