Stuff that doesn't get automatically installed

unlox - the little utility for unlocking the screen
awsecscli - use sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/ecs-cli https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazon-ecs-cli/ecs-cli-darwin-amd64-latest fot this Hopefully all else is covered in this repo

holman does dotfiles

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

I was a little tired of having long alias files and everything strewn about (which is extremely common on other dotfiles projects, too). That led to this project being much more topic-centric. I realized I could split a lot of things up into the main areas I used (Ruby, git, system libraries, and so on), so I structured the project accordingly.

If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read my 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/holman/dotfiles.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.

bin/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/.

Software that is pinned to old versions

Virtualbox

I have to use the latest Virtualbox 5 version for my client's project. ~/.dotfiles/homebrew/casks/ contains the cask files in their old versions

Robo 3T

I have to use robo-3t in the version 1.2.1 in order to be compatible with my client's db. This is achieved with the cask ~/.dotfiles/homebrew/casks/robo-3t.rb

Xcode command line tools fix

Xcode can't be installed as a binary anymore. Instead one has to install it with mas from the appStore. Afterwards we have to use the commands

sudo xcode-select --switch /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools for enabling the command line tools sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer for some reason we still have to tell Xcode were the directory is - oh well

Software that I installed manually

PDF Printer

Download and install https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfwriterformac/

Then follow these steps to create the PDF Printer

Install PDFWriter package by double clicking
Go to system preferences Printers and Scanners pane
Click the Plus sign to add a printer and select PDFwriter
In the Use: field it defaults to Generic PostScript Printer-- this doesn't work--- use the drop down and choose "Other..."
Now you have a file dialog box, navigate to /Library/Printers/Lisanet/PDFwriter/PDFwriter.ppd and click the Open button
You are back in the Add printer dialog box, click the Add button and you are done!

Additionally one has to know that the output of the PDF printer ends up in /private/var/spool/pdfwriter/YOUR-USERNAME so that you might want to create a symlink to this directory

Audacity

There is no Cask for installing audacity anymore unfortunately https://www.fosshub.com/Audacity.html?dwl=audacity-macos-2.3.2.dmg This is the version I installed. Additionally we had to install the FFMPEG and LAME codecs from https://lame.buanzo.org/#lameosx64bitdl

Setting up saml2aws (has to be done only once)

Follow the steps on https://medium.com/devopslinks/single-sign-on-with-g-suite-on-the-amazon-web-services-console-18b88c838cae to setup a SAML app in your google G Suite account to use the G Suite accounts for single sign-on into AWS. When downloading the google metadata.xml file, open the file and look for Location="https://accounts.google.com/o/saml2/idp?idpid=YOUR_IDP_ID Additionally go into your G Suite Admin Console, navigate to your SAML Apps https://admin.google.com/AdminHome?hl=en#AppsList:serviceType=SAML_APPS and click on details. In the URL bar, you'll see https://admin.google.com/AdminHome?hl=en#AppDetails:service=YOUR_SPID

Then set up saml2aws with saml2aws configure Enter https://accounts.google.com/o/saml2/initsso?idpid=YOUR_IDP_ID&spid=YOUR_SPID&forceauthn=false as URL and then just follow the remaining instructions. Afterwards you can login and retrieve temporary AWS CLI credentials via saml2aws login They are automatically saved into ~/.aws/credentials. You might have to activate the AWS profile. To gain an overview of your available profiles, just enter awscp to see the available and the currently chosen profile. With awsp <profile_id> you can change the used profile. You can the use the aws cli with the assumed role's scope. If there is just one role, this will be assumed automatically. If there are multiple roles, you have to specify the role with which you want to use in the attribute --role=arn:.....

Tidio Chat app for Shopify

I downloaded the app from https://www.tidio.com/panel/settings/download-app https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/tidio-desktop-app/v4/osx/Tidio.dmg and installed it manually

Sketchup Weld Plugin / Extension

https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/weld I downloaded it and then installed it via the Window -> Extension Manager dialogue

UnDistracted for macOS

I downloaded it from https://dl.devmate.com/com.sergey-gerasimenko.UnDistracted/UnDistracted.zip and activated it manually.

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.

mklewitz/dotfiles