Stu ๐ชฉ
Stu Discothรจque - Days of Future Future ( ep. 548] April 13, 2014 ) Disco Stu becomes Nothing Stu at a center called MovingOn where Bart undergoes neural implants and Homer is being cloned by Frink.
Notesโ
re: https://davidawindham.com/den-studio/
25/04/07 - my new Mac Studio came in over the weekend. Right now I'm calling it Stu and it seems like it's going to stick. It's an upgrade I promised myself to go along with the new studio project. It's a replacement for my old Mac Mini ( Magic ) which was the last of my working local machines not on an ARM architecture. I remember when 1GB of memory was considered outrageous. It's a hoss and will serve as my primary desktop alongside of my laptop Ovid.
Every time I spin up a new machine, I take time to make considerations on possible changes. I never boot from backups or stuff new machines with previous projects. My approach is almost always minimalism. I look at my older system and ask myself what I can trim because I inevitably end up with multiple language versions, extraneous packages, and software.
Logโ
- 25/04/07 - init ๐ฅ
Peripheralโ
๐ TP-link Deco XE75 Pro ( ethernet ไท )
๐ฅ๏ธ (2) ViewSonic 32" VX3267U-4K / Sony X85K
๐ท FujiFilm XT-1 / Nikon Z50II
๐ Onkyo TX-NR636 / WiiM / Polk monitors/center/sub
๐๏ธ Auturia MiniFuse / ๐น Auturia Mk3 / ๐๏ธ Blue
Softwareโ
Productivity - Alfred, Obsidian, Acrobat, Notes, Reminders
Development - Terminal, Xcode, Visual Studio Code, Cursor, Transmit, TablesPlus, DBngin, Docker, Insomnia, Postman, Proton , GPG Suite
Design - Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/InDesign, Figma, Color Picker
A/V - Monitor Control, Handbrake, Logic/Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier/Audition/Encoder, Screenflow, OBS, Audio Hijack/Loopback
System - Mail, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, Numbers, Pages, Photos, Passwords
Browsers - Safari, Orion, Firefox Developer
AI - Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/CoPilot APIs ( for Cursor, VSCode, Kagi Assistant)
Deprecated - Wirecast, Logseq, Slack
Systemโ
Preferencesโ
- 'unnatural' track pad direction
- aerial screen savers
- dark mode always
Networkโ
- switching to Quad9 over Google for DNS b/c more privacy and a bit faster ( .1 ms )
- using the ECS version @ https://quad9.net/service/service-addresses-and-features
MacOSโ
I use a good bit of Apple software mainly because of the convenience and interoperability.
iCloudโ
I switched to an Apple One account several years ago so now I use the 2TB liberally syncing almost everything except my working Desktop and Documents files.
Finder / Filesโ
Show system Library and add additional folders. I've now migrated to using pretty much the exact same file structure on all of my backup and remote drives prefixing them with the machine name. /Projects and /Sites are the two main add-ons and I organize by acronyms and dates for both.
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โโโ _silver (2005-2009)
โโโ _macs (2009-2014)
โโโ _magic (2012-2025)
โโโ _ovid (2021-)
โโโ _stu (2025-)
โโโ david/
โโโ Desktop (projects/_desk - never use)
โโโ Documents (daw,car,compute,family,finance,health,house,student,travel,work)
โโโ Downloads (working directory)
โโโ Library (show Library in finder)
โโโ Music (hijack,logic,audition)
โโโ Movies (audio,premier,screenflow,finalcut)
โโโ Pictures ( graphics,scans - org by year )
โโโ Projects (org by acronym/yr - all assets including docs - _notes.md root )
โโโ Public ( rarely use )
โโโ Sites ( working projects by acronym - mapped in etc/hosts)
I like to use QLMarkdown & Syntax Highlight as homebrew casks so that I have code and markdown previews within the finder and preview. I use the Base16 Brush Trees themes for syntax highlighting and the Github theme for Markdown.
david@stu:~ ยป brew install --cask qlmarkdown
david@stu:~ ยป brew install --cask syntax-highlight
Xcodeโ
I need the ISO C++ standard, libc++, & Make libraries
david@stu:~ ยป xcode-select โinstall
Terminalโ
dotfiles @ https://code.davidawindham.com/david/dotfiles - Not on Warp, Hyper, Neovim or iTerm. default terminal with Oh-My-Zsh & Vundle
david@stu:~ ยป sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
david@stu:~ ยป git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
Developmentโ
Editorsโ
editor history: Notepad++ -> Textmate -> Sublime -> Atom -> JetBrains -> VSCode -> Cursor
Cursor is better than Copilot and is a fork so I sync other features and plugins I like. finds lint errors faster. biggest workflow change โ
I've made in a while. added Gemini, Claude, OpenAI keys for Cursor
david@stu:~ ยป /<repo>/ . cursor
AIโ
AI in the terminal via https://github.com/simonw/llm & npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
david@stu:~ ยป npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
david@stu:~ ยป claude
Packagesโ
Homebrewโ
PIPโ
PECLโ
Languagesโ
JSโ
Node.jsโ
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.2/install.sh | bash
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป nvm install --lts
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป node -v
v22.13.1
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป nvm -v
0.40.2
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป node -v
v22.13.1
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป npm -v
10.9.2
TypeSriptโ
PHPโ
Pythonโ
Rubyโ
Goโ
Rustโ
Dartโ
Serversโ
Apacheโ
david@stu๐ชฉ:~ ยป apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.4.63 (Unix)
Server built: Jan 20 2025 19:35:41