dotfiles

hardware changes, hardware breaks, hardware gets stolen.

dotfiles live on!

Much of what you see here is inspired and built upon the work of others. Many awesome folks in the open-source community have shared their dotfiles and have written about their setup.

See the inspiration and resources section.

Adapt and make them your own, open-source for the win :)

setting up your Macintosh

Update macOS to the latest version with the App Store
Install Xcode Command Line Tools
```
 xcode-select --install
```

Generate SSH keys by running:

 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mfridman/dotfiles/HEAD/setup_ssh.sh | sh -s "<your-email-address>"

Do not forget to add new SSH key to GitHub.

Install Oh My Zsh:

More information here ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#getting-started

    sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Install homebrew

 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Clone this repo into:

 git clone git@github.com:mfridman/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Run the installation with:
```
 ~/.dotfiles/install.sh
```

inspiration and useful resources

https://github.com/driesvints/dotfiles https://medium.com/@webprolific/getting-started-with-dotfiles-43c3602fd789 https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles https://github.com/jessfraz/dotfiles

https://zachholman.com/2010/08/dotfiles-are-meant-to-be-forked/ https://github.com/holman/dotfiles

https://dougblack.io/words/a-good-vimrc.html#colors https://github.com/dougblack/dotfiles

http://blog.smalleycreative.com/tutorials/using-git-and-github-to-manage-your-dotfiles https://github.com/michaeljsmalley/dotfiles https://pawelgrzybek.com/change-macos-user-preferences-via-command-line/ https://github.com/pawelgrzybek/dotfiles/blob/master/setup-macos.sh http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/12/install-command-line-tools-mac-os-x/

improvements

consider using https://github.com/lra/mackup for app configs

gotchas

ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh#4865 (comment)

# works
$ZSH_CUSTOM/aliases.zsh
# doesn't work
$ZSH_CUSTOM/aliases/git.zsh

zsh plugins

Lots of them found here

Problem is you have to memorize all the shortcuts.

other settings

Preferred Slack color theme

#2B303B,#16181F,#4F5B66,#C0C5CE,#343D46,#A7ADBA,#A3BE8C,#BF616A