Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?

Post by knowald » Tue, Jun 23, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC

Post by soraminazuki » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 7:32 AM UTC

kdtsh wrote: post #17

Homebrew and mise-en-place are the only must have apps for me (both of which are not .app applications). Everything else is pretty well context-dependant and/or built in. For Homebrew - having used Nix, Macports, and pkgsrc, I found Homebrew easier than everything else. I would like to get into Nix, but there is too much mucking around for it to be worth it to me. mise-en-place has such a unique feature set that I ca…

Post by Ikryanov » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 3:23 PM UTC

slipwalker wrote: post #24

homebrew ( indispensable ! all the other apps below are installed/managed via homebrew ): - raycast ( keyboard shortcuts for clipboard manager, basic window management, pomodoro tracking and app launch ) - stats - ice ( menubar manager ) - theBoringNotch ( to have some use for the annoying notch ) - mole ( storage cleaner ) - wezterm ( inside which i run zsh, tmux, neovim, zoxide, eza, batcat, ripgrep, fzf, fdfind, y…

Post by slipwalker » Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 5:12 PM UTC

Ikryanov wrote: post #25

slipwalker wrote: post #24

homebrew ( indispensable ! all the other apps below are installed/managed via homebrew ): - raycast ( keyboard shortcuts for clipboard manager, basic window management, pomodoro tracking and app launch ) - stats - ice ( menubar manager ) - theBoringNotch ( to have some use for the annoying notch ) - mole ( storage cleaner ) - wezterm ( inside which i run zsh, tmux, neovim, zoxide, eza, batcat, ripgrep, fzf, fdfind, y…

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