dotfiles

@felix-starman's dotfiles. Feel free to use as a template, or ask me questions if using these as inspiration.

Thanks to anishathalye for dotbot and the maintainers of asdf-vm, homebrew, and all the other tools that I use daily.

Installation

1. Fork or "Use Template"

So that you can modify these and not worry about losing anything, I highly suggest forking this repo, or clicking "Use this template".

Either will create a repository under your own username.

2. Clone

Now that you have your own copy, click the "Code" dropdown and copy the HTTPS or SSH url.

From a terminal navigate to your "home" directory

$> cd $HOME
# or
$> cd ~/

And then clone your new repo into your home directory (I suggest at ~/.dotfiles)

$> git clone git@github.com:<YOUR_USERNAME>/dotfiles.git .dotfiles

Installing

You'll probably want to remove the submodule dotfiles_per_company since that's a private repo. I suggest googling how to do this, or just remove it from the .gitmodules file before going any further.

HAZARD!! NEEDS UPDATED

The repo should work just fine from scratch, but it's been a little bit since I've done it from scratch

1. git submodule update --init --recursive
2. Go to the Homebrew documentation if on macOS (or some Linux installs if you don't like apt/yum/nix) and follow the instructions
3. Probably restart your terminal and navigate back to this repo's directory
4. brew bundle install (installs all the things listed in the Brewfile, check the homebrew docs if you don't want to install everything)
5. Probably restart your terminal again
6. Go to asdf-vm and install it. It's the best version manager around. There are plugins for everything, and they're often better. Install some languages you like.
7. (macOS specific step) Boot up iTerm2 if you're unsure what terminal to use, but want something a little nicer than the standard terminal
8. Install OhMyZsh (it's great) and Powerlevel10k
9. Auto-link "all the things" by running ~/.dotfiles/.install in a terminal

There will probably be red somewhere if you haven't removed the dotfiles_per_company stuff or you are on Linux, but I hope I've left enough bread-crumbs to figure it out.

Questions

I'm happy to help folks get started, and welcome any feedback as a learning opportunity to improve this repo for others to use as well.

Open an Issue, or message me on Twitter (@felix_starman) and I'll be happy to help :)