Chuck Grimmett

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Month: February 2019

  • My Career Launch Story on the Career Crashers Podcast

    My Career Launch Story on the Career Crashers Podcast

    https://crash.co/blog/career-crashers-podcast-episode-4/Archived Link

  • Productivity tip: Opening URLs from selected text all at once

    I wanted to share a trick I use to save me a ton of time: Opening URLs from selected text in Safari tabs.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS_Ugnr-Bps

  • Setting up a New Mac from Scratch

    My trusty 2013 MacBook Pro died over the weekend. Here is everything I installed and configured on my new machine to get it up to speed. Setting up a new machine from scratch is a great way to clear the cruft that inevitably builds up over time.

    I’m sure I’ll find a few more things in the next month that I forgot, but this is ~95% complete.

    • 1Password – Without this I wouldn’t be able to get in to anything. First app I installed.
    • Dropbox – File transfer was going to take a while and I needed it for syncing data for other apps below.
    • Setapp – One of the best purchases in the last few years. One subscription for tons of apps. Below is what I installed right away.
    • Drafts – I installed the Mac beta. All of my text starts here.
    • Things – My current to-do list
    • Soulver – Best Mac and iOS calculator
    • Tweetbot – My fav third-party Twitter client
    • Copay – Bitcoin wallet
    • Pixelmator Pro – I’ve completely stopped using PhotoShop and use this instead.
    • Trello – Project management. I prefer the desktop app to the web client because I like standalone apps.
    • FruitJuice – Gotta keep your laptop battery healthy.
    • Amphetamine – Keeps your Mac awake when it needs to do things like download your entire Dropbox. Better than Caffeine, the alternative.
    • Slack
    • DaisyDisk – Visualizes your disk space and helps you find giant files
    • The Unarchiver – Installing a lot of new stuff means unzipping a lot of files. The Unarchiver is the best at it.
    • Hazel – Automated organization. Renames files I download and stores them automatically, dumps the trash, organizes my desktop, etc.
    • RescueTime – Time management software that I’ve used since 2010.
    • Keybase – Security and identity
    • Notion – Project management, documents, collaboration, publishing. Basically runs my work life.
    • Zoom – Video conferencing
    • Rocket – Slack-like Emoju picking for your entire OS
    • TextExpander – Text snippets + AppleScript automation kickoff
    • CarbonCopyCloner – I set up weekly drive clones to external harddrives. Saved my bacon multiple times. I didn’t lose a thing this time because I backed up the night before automatically.
    • Backblaze – Offsite backup. Critical.
    • WordPress – I like managing all of my sites from this single app.
    • Adobe CreativeCloud – Primarily for Typekit
    • Sketch
    • Spotify
    • Turbo Boost Switcher Pro – Toggles the Turbo Boost feature on your CPU for better battery life.

    Chrome Extensions

    • Zoom video conferencing – Changes all Google Hangouts links to Zoom links
    • Wappalyzer – Figuring out what stacks other sites are using & figuring out whether or not things I install are actually activated
    • DuckDuckGo – My default search engine
    • Ghostery – Death to all tracking scripts
    • Stayfocusd – Blocks social media during the workday
    • What Have You Made Today? – My favorite new tab screen
    • Larder – My bookmarking of choice

    Development Tools

    Misc Settings and preferences I set

    • Hot corners – Can’t live without them since 10.4
    • Generated new SSH keys
    • defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES – Gotta see those hidden files
    • Apple’s enhanced dictation – The extra suite of dictation tools
    • True Tone on
    • Night Shift on