dentler does dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read Zach Holmon's post on the subject.

topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

what's inside

A lot of stuff. Seriously, a lot of stuff. Check them out in the file browser above and see what components may mesh up with you. Fork it, remove what you don't use, and build on what you do use.

components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew Cask to install: things like Chrome and 1Password and Adium and stuff. Might want to edit this file before running any initial setup.
topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
topic/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when you run script/install. To avoid being loaded automatically, its extension is .sh, not .zsh.
topic/*.symlink: Any file ending in *.symlink gets symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/jasondentler/dotfiles-1.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink, which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.

dot is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane macOS defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

post install steps

Don't forget to wrap things up...

SSH keys for GitHub

# Generate keys
# Accept the default location & passphrase
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "your_github_email@email.com"

# Ensure the SSH agent is running
eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

touch ~/.ssh/config
open ~/.ssh/config

Add this content

Host *
  AddKeysToAgent yes
  UseKeychain yes
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

Save and close

# Add the key
ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

# Copies the contents of the id_ed25519.pub file to your clipboard
pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

The SSH key is copied to your clipboard. Add it in GitHub.

Install Rider

The JetBrains toolbox app was installed using homebrew. Use it to install Rider.

Install older versions of dotnet SDK

Because dotnet seems to be revving versions quickly, you may want to install older versions of the SDK. Only the latest SDK version is installed.

bugs

I want this to work for everyone; that means when you clone it down it should work for you even though you may not have rbenv installed, for example. That said, I do use this as my dotfiles, so there's a good chance I may break something if I forget to make a check for a dependency.

If you're brand-new to the project and run into any blockers, please open an issue on this repository and I'd love to get it fixed for you!

thanks

I forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles for a couple years before the weight of my changes and tweaks inspired me to finally roll my own. But Ryan's dotfiles were an easy way to get into bash customization, and then to jump ship to zsh a bit later. A decent amount of the code in these dotfiles stem or are inspired from Ryan's original project.