 What's up guys, so it's been a minute since I've posted a video and it's because it's been a holidays Celebrated a birthday last week and doing a bit of traveling and also hosting here at our crib in Brooklyn But yeah boys back and actually it's a beautiful day So I wasn't sure if I was gonna make this video just like in the studio aka like the second bedroom as The main shooting environment, but since it's a 50 degree day and it's Thursday Which is like my favorite day of the week I might as well make this into more of a lifestyle video and we'll talk about the max setup Of course, we have a really cool sponsor. Thank you to Fiverr for sponsoring today's video We're talking more about Fiverr in just a minute, but I'm just happy to be posting a YouTube video So in the last video I have braids and I did have braids on and off for about like three weeks to a month But I'm gonna take a break from braids My hair is still not long as I like it to be so you probably won't see braids for me for the next six months So I'm just gonna really just grow out a fro and have like a lower taper like I mentioned earlier in today's video We're gonna be going through my productivity and developer setup for my new 14 inch M3 poem MacBook Pro What I say like that So if you're someone who's got the new M3 Pro or you're just curious or maybe you just bought a new MacBook This is definitely a video for you But before we get started, I want to take a moment to talk about today's sponsor Fiverr Thank you to Fiverr for sponsoring this portion of today's video Have you ever been at work doing something outside of your scope thinking dang? 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I just got like a slight taper And I didn't take anything off the top because I'm growing my hair the next six months And I'm here in Williamsburg and when in Williamsburg, I got a vlog, right? Like look at look at this place It's probably my favorite neighborhood in Brooklyn, which is really cliche to say but it is what it is Oh what I'm about to do right now is I'm going to run to Like a small like cafe just to grab like a coffee And maybe like, uh, I don't really want to pastry. I'm not really feeling sugar right now Like I want an actual meal, but since you weren't home for Thanksgiving Lee made Thanksgiving food and it was so good But I'm not going to be home probably for like the next hour. So I'm probably just going to grab a coffee Maybe grab like some small snack and then I'm going to take the whip To Greenpoint to this really like aesthetic coffee shop My last video I said that I got the 14 inch because I wanted to have a lighter weight laptop When I'm going to go just to be a little bit more portable Got the tote this tote is from cause it's like a quilted tote The strap is really nice and secure and in here I have my camera tiny tripod and I have my 14 inch And it wasn't too heavy. So you're starting to see The decisions I make in real life So the first thing I customize for my new MacBook pro is hiding the dock Simply go to system preferences and search for dock then toggle automatically hide and show the dock I know that's not the most innovative customization for your MacBook pro But for me it makes a huge difference, especially when I'm looking at my external displays And my desktop is a lot cleaner more minimal Limits distractions along with the fact that I'm switching from a 16 inch to a 14 inch So I enjoy having that like about an inch of screen real estate The first productivity essential app I install for all my MacBooks is magnet in order to multitask with multiple apps open It's important to have your windows arranged accordingly after installing magnet You can configure it to open when you log in to your computer and you can find it in your menu bar So what I like about this layout manager opposed to some other ones I've used in a past or the built-in layout manager that the PCs have Is the fact that you can select the window that you want to control Then you can select the menu bar select the magnet app And then you can dictate where you want to place that window on your display I've noticed with other like snap tools like window layout snap tools It's almost impossible for me to snap a window to a corner or an edge of the display that borders another display Which is really frustrating. So this is the best tool I've used the next app I want to briefly talk about is the manacle tool that is designed to help you switch between apps You can simply select the alt button and all of your active windows will display in the middle of the screen with a key That corresponds with that app. This app is Spotify. It's pretty straightforward My favorite music app, especially for when I want to listen to lo-fi music while working So flow is a digital timer that I've used for a long time that I've actually come to realize is Not just an app to help keep you focused as a pomodoro timer But it also reinforces taking breaks, which is something I struggle with especially when I'm in that flow state So when it's break time flow covers your entire desktop with a timer for you to take a 10 or 15 minute break Or however long you decide to make your break ocean is my go-to workspace for everything from a budgeting travel plans Content calendar and developer research. I don't have enough time to dive into notion as much as I like But I love if you can drop any notion hacks or the name of any notion templates that you're using now The one I've been using most recently is called the matcha vibe claim. My mac is next This is a great tool to keep track of the health of your macbook along with reviewing large files to maximize your storage Next is logi options plus which is an app dedicated to my logitech peripherals And I use it to customize the buttons on my mx master 3s and my logitech mx keys The first step in our developer setup guide is to install our web browsers Safari is cool, but personally I never use it outside of my iphone Chrome is considered a good baseline browser for web development due to its extensive developer tools Compatibility with web standards and support for modern web technologies I love using chrome's web inspector and extensions for react programming and other extensions that make it easy For me as a web developer and designer firefox is a great web browser to have for several reasons Privacy and security high level of customization And also its robust developer tools that are highly regarded in the web dev community So the mac default terminal is good. I use it all throughout college But iTerm is better the user experience and interactivity of iTerm is unmatched It's a very simple ui But has a lot of modern features my favorite being split pane and the tip of the day Terminals can feel like a black box with millions of features that are hard to figure out how to use And i love that you can set notifications for daily iTerm tips and tricks We don't just stop there with the terminal I recommend downloading all my zsh which is an open source framework to manage your terminal configuration Giving you themes and thousands of helpful functions and plugins for your terminal github is absolutely necessary And I use it for sharing my work and working collaboratively through version control If i were you i'd sign up for two-factor authentication to have that extra layer of security GitHub is a great way to save and manage your code It provides version control allowing you to track changes and collaborate with others By creating a github repo for your project You can easily keep record of your work share it with future employers and contribute to open source projects Homebrew is an important tool to install in your mac because it allows you to easily install and manage Software packages libraries and dependencies It provides a convenient way to install command line tools Programming languages and other software components that may be required for your web development environment Homebrew simplifies the process of installing and obtaining software in your mac making it a viable tool for devs and other power users And at some point in time you're going to come across needing homebrew So you might as well do it in the beginning last but not least you'll need a text editor My recommendation is visual studio code, which is a highly acclaimed and widely used source code editor Known for its versatility and powerful features that enhance the coding and experience for developers So I think this is a good baseline for your developer setup guide for any developer And you can build off this setup based on which part of the stack you primarily code