I’ve been prototyping some App ideas on my MacBook Pro; this post is to help me keep track of the tools I’m using and how I’ve installed them. Feel free to add corrections and feedback. Here’s what I installed: the XCode command line tools from developer.apple.com, which includes make Homebrew , which seems to be the state of the art for UNIX package management on the Mac TextWrangler as my text editor and Mou as a markdown editor Python 2.