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Setup practical and appealing terminal on macOS

Starship (Shell Prompt) Victor Mono fd Homebrew
  1. Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZSH, Ion, and Powershell.
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    • Open Source
    Starship is a "blazingly fast" cross shell prompt. It has many features and reasons to use, but I use it primarily for easiness of configuration and because it is written in rust (I am considering switching my terminal soon due to that, don't judge me).

    #Developer Tools #Programming #Terminal 188 social mentions

  2. Victor Mono is an open-source monospaced font with optional cursive italics and programming symbol ligatures.
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    • Open Source
    Nerd fonts are necessary in order to render certain glyphs (icons). Nerd font is just a patched version of a normal font to enable ability to have icons rendered correctly. I am not going to explain on how to install fonts in macOS, however my preferred method is using brew, personal I use Victor Mono font, you could install it via brew like so:.

    #Typography #Design #Tool 15 social mentions

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    fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 118 social mentions

  4. The missing package manager for macOS
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    • Open Source
    Also, I will be using homebrew to install all the needed applications, you can use any other way.

    #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager #Windows Tools 881 social mentions

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