TL;DR: How I set up my 2026 MacBook Pro, along with the software I installed and the method I used for each (either Mac App Store via the mas CLI, Homebrew, or direct download).
It’s been a few years since I last wrote one of these. The 2021 16″ MacBook Pro held up exactly as long as I’d hoped. Five years later, I’m on a 14″ MacBook Pro with the M5 Pro chip, 48GB of unified memory, and 1TB of storage.
I’m still in the WordPress economy but largely working on backend services built on GCP, PlanetScale, and related
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