I’m writing this for myself, but I hope it helps you too!
OneNote
The first thing I installed on my computer. If you haven’t used OneNote before, it’s something you can use to take notes, and it’ll be synced with all of your devices. You can access the notes from onenote.com too. You can download this from the store.
VS Code
A text editor. I personally prefer this over Sublime & Atom. Download and install this from http://code.visualstudio.com
Xcode
The reason I got a mac was to make iOS apps and I definitely need this.
Install it from the App Store.
Homebrew
One thing I love about the Mac is the fact that it’s Unix based. However it doesn’t have a package manager. There’s however a widely used third party package manager called homebrew: http://brew.sh.
It’ll ask you for some command-line tools if you dint install Xcode. I just installed Xcode first and accepted its T&C and I dint have to do anything else.
If it still doesn’t seem to work, run xcode-select --install on the terminal and click on the Install button.
If you’re not a terminal person, you might want to install cakebrew after you’ve installed homebrew.
JDK
I installed the Java SE Development Kit 8u65 from here.
If you’re using a non-retina mac and you’re planning to work on Android Studio you might want to install Java 6 distributed by Apple here to run Android Studio. More info here.
PHP / Apache
Setup php using this: http://justinhileman.info/article/reinstalling-php-on-mac-os-x
If you can’t access the files dropped in ~/Sites at http://localhost/~username/filename.php from the browser, you might need to follow some of the steps from here.
BTW I found a nicer looking tutorial which I haven’t tried, but the comments are positive: http://getgrav.org/blog/mac-os-x-apache-setup-multiple-php-versions
MySQL
I tried installing this with homebrew but I couldn’t get it working. I finally gave up and downloaded the dmg from here and installed it. Got it setup in less than 15 minutes.
More browsers
Chrome, Firefox, Opera and whatever else you want to test your next website on.
Self Control
Sometime last month I found myself using Facebook a lot. I wanted to find a way to stop it and I found this: http://selfcontrolapp.com
You must give it a try. Totally worth it.
Android Studio
I make android apps, I totally need this :D
Download it from here: http://tools.android.com/download/studio