Lapwing Labs September 30, 2014 by Matthew Mueller Hackers obsess over automation. We want robots to do the grunt work so we can focus on the fun stuff. One area that's ripe for automation that hasn't seen much attention lately is setting up your computer. Today I want to show you some techniques to apply automation to the setup of your Mac. The goal of this post is to automate 80% of the bootstrapping, allowing you to setup a new Mac in a matter of hours, not days. There has been previous work done in this area to automate your Mac's setup. Boxen is probably the most notable. Boxen is Github's solution to keeping their teams running similar environments so there aren't as many inconsistencies across boxes. Boxen is a great solution for more mature companies with devops teams , but what about the small startups or the lone hackers? We need a more suitable solution for them. This b...