MacOS Setup in 2022 for Minimal Mouse interaction

I use macOS for my day-to-day development. Over the years, I have tested a lot of apps and have realized switching between keyboard and mouse makes the interaction cumbersome, and time-consuming.

Below I document my new Mac Setup to build a keyboard focused mac environment

The first thing that I choose to do is tweak the basic Mac settings to make interactions swift.

1. Change Keyboard preferences for snappy keystroke responses

Go to Preferences -> keyboard
- Move `Key Repeat` slider to `Fast.`
- Move `Delay until Repeat` slider to `Short.`

Secondly, I add a few Text Shortcuts under the `Text` section of Keyboard Preferences

These are generally used for quickly typing phrases and sentences that I occasionally use in emails, blog posts etc.

some examples are below …

| Replace | With |
| — — | — — |
| gm | Good Morning |
| thr | Thanks and Regards |
| lmr | Let me review and get back to you |

…you get the idea!

2. Homebrew Install

Fire up the terminal and run the command

Validate Homebrew is installed by running

3. Replacing the Mac terminal with iTerm

iTerm2 is the de-facto terminal replacement that you see in all MacOS setup guides, and it truly deserves this place based on the features it has to offer

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