vgnshiyer's dotfiles

1. Devices

Primary

Device: Macbook Air

OS: MacOS(Sonama)

Ram: 8gb

Chip: Apple M1

Tools:

• Arc Browser
• AdBlock
• Vimium (operate your browser with Vim controls)
• Maccy (clipboard manager)
• Homerow (Navitgate accross Mac OS applications with Vim controls)
• KindaVim (Use Vim controls across text inputs in Mac OS)

Secondary

Device: Ipad 9

OS: IpadOS 17

Tools:

• WorkingCopy

2. Dev workflow

2.1 Shell

1. Install Apple's CLI tools

bash xcode-select --install

2. Clone repo into a new directory

git clone https://github.com/vgnshiyer/.dotfiles ~/.dotfiles

3. Install Homebrew, and software listed in brewfile

# Install Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# Add Homebrew to PATH
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> ~/.zprofile

# Install software from Brewfile
brew bundle --file ~/.dotfiles/Brewfile

4. Configure git

# Set your global Git username and email
git config --global user.name "YOUR_NAME"
git config --global user.email your@email

# Set Git to use the OSX keychain as the credential helper [Credentials will be stored] (`store` option will be stored as plaintext)
git config --global credentials.helper osxkeychain

5. Track changes with stow

stow .

2.2 Terminal

1. Install fish cli

# install fish
brew install fish

# add fish to shells
echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

# change default shell
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

# Update fish config
stow . --force

2. Install alacritty

brew install --cask alacritty

# add fonts
brew tap epk/epk

# install sf-mono-nerd-font
brew install --cask font-sf-mono-nerd-font

# install starship
brew install startship

3. Install tmux

# Install tmux
brew install tmux

2.3 MacOS system settings

Have this clutter-free look to mac os

1. Automatically Hide dock & menu bar
2. Configure keyboard shortcuts

keyboard shortcutes --> Mission Control
  1. ⌥ Option + 1 : switch to window 1
  2. ⌥ Option + 2 : switch to window 2
  3. ⌥ Option + 3 : switch to window 3

2.4 Window manager

1. Install yabai

# Install yabai: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
brew install koekeishiya/formulae/yabai

# Install skhd
brew install koekeishiya/formulae/skhd

# Start services
skhd --start-service
yabai --start-service

2.5 Code Editor

1. Link vscode settings

# remove existing files
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json

# link settings
ln -s /Users/vgnshiyer/.dotfiles/vscode_settings/settings.json /Users/vgnshiyer/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json
ln -s /Users/vgnshiyer/.dotfiles/vscode_settings/keybindings.json /Users/vgnshiyer/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json

2. I use vim also. Replicate my vim setup with my .vimrc file. Install vim-plug as the plugin manager for vim. (Deprecated: I use nvim now)

curl -fLo ~/.vim/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim

3. Open .vimrc and type the command :PlugInstall.

4. Installing language servers: When opening a new file, type :LspInstallServer. This installs the appropriate language server for the filetype.

Note: Do not add .vim/ to source control. Vim-plug manages updates to plugins in the .vim/plugged/ directory via git.

3 Bonus

1. Add pokefetch to your terminal session (Display a random pokemon along with system info to your terminal)

sudo ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bin/pokefetech/pokefetch.py /usr/local/bin/pokefetch

2. Add them to your fish config (or zshrc) here.

3. Notetaking: I have commands zet, tday and sb for my notetaking workflow which is integrated with Obsidian for cross-platform access.

• zet --> opens a quick note with my default template.
• tday --> opens today's daily note.
• sb --> this command opens my second-brain directory which consists of all my notes. Find it here