To achieve maximum interoperability, the following "dot files" setup is intended for use with tmux. On MacOS you can install it using brew. Most Linux distributions package it.
Ideally, you would want to run VIM 8.
The Hack font.
The font-awesome fonts (ttf and otf - https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/56899).
Run the install.sh script.
Clone the i3blocks-contrib repository to $HOME/.config.