Nicola Massarenti's dotfiles

Here you can find my dotfiles, which I use to configure my development environment.

Quick setup

If you want to quickly update the configurations, you can run the following command:

# Copy fish config
cp -r fish ~/.config/fish

# Copy starship config
cp starship.toml ~/.config/starship.toml

# Load ubuntu dconf settings
dconf load / < ubuntu.dconf

# Setup systemctl custom services
./service-systemctl.sh

Shell

fish - The user-friendly command line shell
fisher - A plugin manager for fish
starship - The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! - curl -sS https://starship.rs/install.sh | sh && starship init fish | source
nerdfonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher. I use Hack - git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts && cd nerd-fonts && ./install.sh Hack
exa - A modern replacement for ls - sudo apt install exa
z - A new cd command that learns - fisher install jethrokuan/z

Software

Chrome: The web browser
Insync: Google Drive client
Obsidian: The second brain - Markdown-based note-taking and knowledge base - sudo snap install obsidian
Bitwarden: Password manager - sudo snap install bitwarden
Bitwarden CLI: Command line interface for Bitwarden - sudo snap install bw
GitHub CLI: GitHub on the command line - sudo snap install gh
Terminator: Terminal emulator - sudo apt install terminator
flameshot: Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software - sudo apt install flameshot
caffeine: Prevents the screen from going to sleep - sudo apt install caffeine

Command line

vim: Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - sudo apt install vim
unzip - sudo apt install unzip
git: The fast distributed version control system - sudo apt install git
curl: Command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax - sudo apt install curl
tmux: Terminal multiplexer - sudo apt install tmux
libfuse2: Filesystem in Userspace (library), required by Obsidian - sudo apt install libfuse2
bat: a cat clone with wings - sudo apt install bat
jq: a command-line JSON processor - sudo apt install jq

Operations

kubectl: The Kubernetes command-line tool
helm: The package manager for Kubernetes
Docker: The container platform
Docker Compose: The container orchestration tool
krew: The plugin manager for kubectl
fish-kubectl-prompt: A kubectl prompt for fish shell
kubeseal: A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
travis-ci: The command line client for Travis CI

Development tools

Python: The programming language
Rust: The programming language - curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Hugo: The static site generator - sudo snap install hugo
ruby: The programming language - sudo apt install ruby ruby-dev

Terminator profile

Font: Hack Nerd Font Regular 10 (installed with nerdfonts)
No titlebar nor titlebar icon
Background transparency: 0.83

Gnome extensions

Caffeine - Prevents the screen from going to sleep
Sound Input & Output Device choose - Allows you to choose the sound output device
Vitals - Shows CPU, memory, and disk usage in the top bar

Systemctl services

You can inspect the setup of the systemctl obsidian service in file service-systemctl.sh. The service is used to start Obsidian as a daemon and to automatically mount the Obsidian vault.

Why as a systemctl service? The main reason is that I wanted to run Obsidian as a daemon, without having to care about the terminal. I tried creating detached fish functions but the process was tied to the terminal, so I had to keep the terminal open. Other options included running a container with a mounted volume, but I wanted to avoid the overhead of Docker. The solution of configuring the process as a systemctl service was the best option for me. This way, I can start the service with systemctl start obsidian and stop it with systemctl stop obsidian, furthermore the way it's configured, the services is automatically started at boot and is restarted if it crashes while being logged in.

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