amir-abdi / portable-me

Tools and configs I use to set up my development environment

Portable Me

This is how I make myself (Amir H. Abdi, aka. AHA) a portable developer as I move across orgs. If you landed here by accident, you might enjoy learning about my working style more than my technical setup.

Mac

Tools

• Windows manager: Rectangle
• Multiscreen Agent: Display Link Manager
• IDE: PyCharm
  • Set the settings
• Offline Password Manager: KeepassXC

OS Settings

• Set the default screenshot directory:

  defaults write com.apple.screencapture /Users/`whoami`/Screenshots

Shell/Terminal

The following are better be installed in the same order:

• Terminal: iterm2
  • Set the profile
• Package Manager: Brew
• Shell: zsh
  • oh my zsh
    • auto-suggestions
  • Syntax highlighting
  • Set the profile
  • Prompt helper: Starship
• Git
  • Git Quick Stats
• Acronym Util: WTF
  • Delete offensive acronyms: /usr/local/Cellar/wtf/$VERSION/share/misc/acronyms-o
  • Set ACRONYMDB=/path/to/cystom/acronym/file

Other

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