joelbowen / dotfiles

Welcome to my dotfiles! I was inspired by many others before me, I created this repo by borrowing bits and pieces from other great repos, and building on them.

Jump straight to

• Setting up a new machine
• Running common maintenance tasks

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Maintenance

Update list of global node packages

To update the list of globally installed node packages, run:

./node/update-global-node-pkgs.mjs

Requires that zx is already installed to run properly

To install global node packages, run:

sh ./scripts/install-global-node-pkgs.sh

Update list of VSCode Extensions

To update the list of VSCode extensions, run:

sh ./vscode/update-vscode-extensions.sh

To install VSCode extensions, run:

sh ./vscode/install-vscode-extensions.sh

Symlink new dotfiles

1. Add your dotfile to this directory
2. Run sh ./install/symlinks.sh

New Machine

Setting up a new machine is easy, done in two parts.

Part 1: Install (Apps, Shell, Dotfiles, etc.)

1. Pre-install: a. Sign into the Mac App Store so that mas will be able to install App Store apps b. Install XCode, command-line tools, and accept the T&C (xcode-select --install from Terminal)
2. Run sh ./part-1.sh
3. Update some settings in iTerm
   • Select a Powershell patched font for iTerm (Preferences → Profiles → Text)
     • Currently, I'm using Inconsolata for Powerline
   • Select a color theme for iTerm (Preferences → Profiles → Colors → Color Presets)
     • Currently, I'm using Solarized Dark
   • Turn on Natural Text Selection

Part 2: Setup (Tooling and Configurations)

1. Launch iTerm (see your snazzy new setup)
2. Run sh ./part-2.sh
3. Add license keys/logins for:
   • Git Tower
   • Sketch
   • Adobe CC (I also have to individually download the Adobe apps I use in CC 🙄)
   • Navicat for PostgreSQL

Note: You may need to do the following commands to finish setup

• in Vim: :PlugInstall
• Setup a new GitHub personal access token for this machine

Appendix

Natural Text Selection

By default, word jumps (option + → or ←) and word deletions (option + backspace) do not work. To enable these, go to "iTerm → Preferences → Profiles → Keys → Load Preset... → Natural Text Editing → Boom! Head explodes" (Credit: Kevin Smets)

Oh My Zsh Plugins & Themes

The following items have been added to Oh My Zsh. To add more, update the oh-my-zsh install script in ./install/oh-my-zsh.sh

Plugins

• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-better-npm-completion
• zsh-nvm
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• z

Themes

• powerlevel10k

Credits

I gained inspiration for the general content and organization by looking through many public repos, most notably the following:

• driesvints/dotfiles
• sobolevn/dotfiles
• paulirish/dotfiles
• alrra/dotfiles
• gist/kevin-smets