Here lay a currated list of the tools I use or have used at one point in time or another. Consider this my virtual toolbelt, full of the well worn & maintained trappings of a hacker. Perhaps they will be as useful to you, dear reader, as they are to me.
Happy hacking!
These instructions are for new machines.
- Clone this repository into the home directory.
git clone git@github.com:jordanbrauer/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles - Install all necessary dependencies.
# probably a few that aren't in this install script lol make install - Sync the configurations
make sync
Warning These configurations make use of Nerd Font gylphs. Make sure to use a font that supports dev icons.
If a new package is being added, simply create the directory & files, then edit
the Makefile sync target to include it. Alterantively you can (un)stow the
new package individually to test it before altering the Makefile.
If adding a new file to an existing package, no extra work is required.
Once all of the new new files are in place, simply run
make syncTerminal (kitty)
It's fast, sleak, fully configurable, scriptable.. what's not to love? Plus, cats.
Configuring a beautiful prompt has never been easier...
Minimalistic system information. An alternative to fetch, neofetch, etc.
Properly configure colours for ls output in a consistent manner.
Shell (Nushell)
Bash was awesome for many years, however I am now a Nushell convert.
Editor (Neovim)
A few dependencies for Neovim & plugins.
luajitripgrepcode-minimap
Other resources
How I install my tools.
PHP package manager. Not much else to say .. it's great for projects and global executables.
My choice of package manager as a Mac OS user.
A bunch of other random tools I've accrued over time on my belt. Some are fun, and others are essential.
Better cat(1).
top and htop are fine, but a bit too boring for my liking.
I don't like creating repositories with GitHub containing default files. In this
case, a LICENSE. It's also annoying to visit choosealicence.com
everytime.
nvm is too slow, bloated, and confusing. Only really use this for my day-job,
as I don't write much JavaScript otherwise.
Great for scripting and filtering large amounts of data. Great when you need it
for one-offs, but is sort of replaced by gum when you want to write a helper
script that sticks around.
I used to use this with Neovim, but have since switched to Telescope &
ripgrep.
A terminal-based markdown reader. It's absolutely fantastic for reading
READMEs and your own markdown documents.
A series of elegant helpers to write beautiful shell scripts with. This is a huge time saver.
A command-line JSON parser, among other things.
An amazing tool, and absolutely good to have, however as a Nushell user, this has lost a lot of value over time.
The 1Password CLI. Great for scripting all kinds of authentication.
An improved PHP REPL.
Also used with Neovim & Codi as an interactive scratchpad. A mix between a REPL & editor.
A markdwn, terminal-based slide deck. Originally I used lookatme,
but if I am honest, I don't really like installing or using Python (pip)
packages and as such, gladly moved to slides.
Symlink farm manager. This tool is how I sync all the configurations from this
repository into my system. Without this, setting up a new machine would always
be some kind of pain in the ass. Now, I simply clone this repsitory and run the
appropriate stow command (kept in the Makefile).
A more succicnt man.
A scriptable, terminal-based todo list.
A scriptable, terminal-based typing test.
jq but for CSVs. Pretty great, but Nushell kind of replaces the need for it.