No mouse and keyboard tab can’t focus?

Cmd+Opt+F5 -> Motor -> Full Keyboard Access

macOS Settings

  1. General -> Software Update -> Update to latest
  2. General -> About -> Name -> rename to unique and easy to remember name
  3. General -> Date & Time -> 24-hour time -> turn on
  4. Network -> Firewall -> turn on
  5. Appearance -> Show scroll bars -> Always
  6. Control Center -> Menu Bar Only -> Spotlight -> Don’t Show in Menu Bar
  7. Desktop & Dock -> Position on screen -> Left (or Right, depends on display arrangement)
  8. Desktop & Dock -> Automatically hide and show the Dock -> turn on
  9. Desktop & Dock -> Tiled windows have margins -> turn off
  10. Desktop & Dock -> Mission Control -> Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use -> turn off
  11. Displays -> Night Shift… -> Schedule -> Sunset to Sunrise
  12. Privacy & Security -> Security -> FileVault -> turn on
  13. Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts… -> Modifier Keys -> Select keyboard (all keyboards) -> Caps Lock key -> set to Escape
  14. Keyboard -> Dictation -> Shortcut -> turn off

Finder

  1. Finder Settings -> Advanced -> When performing a search -> Search the Current Folder

Software (GUI)

Firefox

Sign in to existing Firefox account. Otherwise, import bookmarks and install these add-ons manually:

  • 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
  • Alt or not
  • Bitwarden Password Manager
  • Dark Reader
  • Disable WebRTC
  • Don’t Fuck With Paste
  • Export Cookies
  • I still don’t care about cookies
  • Link Hints
  • Minimal Theme for Twitter / X
  • Old Reddit Redirect
  • SearXNG
  • Stylus
  • uBlock Origin
  • Violentmonkey
  • YouTube Music Volume Fixer

Paste

Restore old version from backup.

iTerm2

  • Use macOS text editing shortcuts (e.g. Opt+<-/-> for word jumps), Settings -> Profiles -> Keys -> Key Bindings -> Presets -> Natural Text Editing

For theming, use presets:

bash -c "$(curl -sLo- https://git.io/vQgMr)"

Catppuccin Mocha (number 97)

https://github.com/Gogh-Co/Gogh

Thunderbird

  • (maybe) open Thunder first and close it to ensure profiles dir are created
  • Unzip the backup profile
  • In ~/Library/thunderbird/Profiles, replace the <...>.default-release with the backup profile
  • Open Thunderbird to check if the profile is restored correctly

Raycast

  • Install with cask (raycast) or via website.
  • Disable Spotlight keyboard, Settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts… -> Spotlight -> Show Spotlight search -> turn off
  • Replace Raycast shorcut with Cmd+Space
  • Hide Raycast menu bar icon
  • Do not untick all Spotlight search results, it will break Finder group by kind

Software (App Store)

  • Bitwarden

Software (CLI)

Homebrew

https://brew.sh/

brew install \
bat \
btop \
doggo \
fnm \
gh \
git \
jesseduffield/lazydocker/lazydocker \
jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit \
just \
lsd \
mcfly \
micro \
starship \
tlrc

brew install --cask \
font-fantasque-sans-mono-nerd-font \
iina \
raycast \
zed

zsh

https://github.com/darcien/dotfiles/blob/master/.zshrc

Network Troubleshooting

https://fasterdata.es.net/performance-testing/network-troubleshooting-tools/

brew install iperf iperf3 nuttcp owamp

Changelog

  • 2025-05-30: add Firefox add-ons
  • 2025-05-24: initial version