Setup

Dotfiles

• Clone this repo into your homefolder and cd into it
• Run ./install.sh to create symlinks from the dotfiles in this repo to your home directory, backups of your old dotfiles will be placed into ~/dotfiles_old

Terminal

• Download iTerm2, then

  • Download this font
  • Configure iTerm2 to use the com.googlecode.iterm2.plist file as its settings file

• Download and install Homebrew, then install the following brew packages:

  • fzf
  • git-delta
  • bat
  • htop
  • neovim
  • nvm
  • ripgrep
  • tmux
  • tmuxinator
  • wget
  • xz
  • pyenv
  • pyenv-virtualenv

• Add the tmux-256color terminfo to the system ncurses, otherwise colors will be off when using system programs like ls while using tmux:

curl -O https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicm/ea9cf3c93f22e0246ec858122d9abea1/raw/37ae29fc86e88b48dbc8a674478ad3e7a009f357/tmux-256color
/usr/bin/tic -x tmux-256color
rm tmux-256color

• Run bat cache --build, this will override the default base16 theme with a custom one in .config/bat/themes. This seem only changes the line highlight color to a darker version to prevent comments from being unreadable when they are highlighted.

Python

• Run pyenv install 3.X.X and pyenv global 3.X.X to replace the default python2 with pythonX.X.X (choose the most recent version).
• Run pyenv virtualenv 3.X.X neovim to create a virtual env for neovim
• Run pyenv shell neovim to active the venv
• Run pip install black isort flake8 pynvim to allow basic autoformatting and linting without activating an environment and to add neovim integration
• Run curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 - to install Poetry
• Set poetry option virtualenvs.prefer-active-python to true

Node

• Install the latest node.js LTS release using nvm install --lts

Vim

• Run ":PlugInstall" in Neovim to install Vim plugins.

• Install Language Servers:

  • Typescript: npm install -g typescript typescript-language-server
  • Python (Pyright): npm install -g pyright
  • Vue.js: npm install -g vls
  • efm (for flake8): brew install efm-langserver

MacOS

• In Keyboard setttings, increase Key Repeat to max and Delay Until Repeat to one before short
• Replace Capslock with Escape
• Install
  • Docker
  • Hidden to hide menu bar items
  • Karabiner Elements for keyboard customization
  • Postgres for macOS
  • Obsidian for markdown editing and note taking
  • Scroll Reverser if using an external mouse
  • SensibleSideButtons if using an external mouse (add this to login items for autostart)
  • Magnet or Rectangle for window tiling
  • Alfred or Raycast as a spotlight replacement
  • TablePlus as a database viewer
  • LICEcap to record screen sessions as GIFs