Andrew Fletcher published: 14 April 2021 (updated) 19 April 2021 1 minute read
Joining a new company / team there is always a lot of new items to do, install and familiarise yourself. Below is a working list:
Products
URL / install path
Notes
Homebrew
https://brew.sh
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Docker
Visual Studio Code
Sequel Ace
App Store
1Password
App Store
Asana
Invitation
Slack
Invitation
Bitbucket
Invitation
MS Teams
Spark
App Store
Preferred over OSX Mail
Preferred over OSX Mail
wget
brew install wget
If using the site scraping tool
Note - most of these are not order dependant - except for Homebrew. Install this first, then add the balance.
I'll add to this list over time as I discover new elements to working here.
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