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Usage

Mac

If using strap authenticated with github: Strap will automatically clone and install dotfiles and the ~/.Brewfile. See more tips to investigate here.

If not: clone this directory to ~/.dotfiles and run ./install. To install brew dependencies run brew bundle from ~/.dotfiles/homedir.

Brew casks

To install GUI applications using homebrew, double-check the contents of ./Caskfile and then run brew bundle --file=./Caskfile.

Organization

./install: Run this to symlink dotfiles from /homedir to your $HOME directory.
./homedir: location of all loading scripts (.bash_profile, .vimrc etc) to be symlinked to $HOME
./initializers: Scripts shared and loaded from multiple dotfiles (eg PATH, aliases)
[./scripts](./scripts): setup+strap-after-setup` are automatically run around the strap process. But maybe you would like to run them too.

Followups

Some GUI applications like backblaze require manual installation.
Activate icloud storage for documents if you want.
Set up vundler
If you have a $HOME/.keys/.env your zshrc/bashrc will source it- For example you may be able to do git clone my-encrypted-repo.git ~/.keys with, inside, a .env like this:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "loading secrets"
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=abc123
export PASSWORD=password123!

Apple environment setup that I might run

# Disabling key repeats for different text editors in osx
# To figure out the setting for an app you don't know, do something like `defaults read | grep intellij`
defaults write com.microsoft.VSCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# disable the accent menu globally
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Set custom screencapture location
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "$HOME/Documents/Screenshots"; killall SystemUIServer

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