dotfiles

My own personal, highly subjective set of tools to help me do my dev work.

As for context: I've been (mostly) a backend developer for web apps in my career. At some point I turned my terminal into an IDE of sorts, and never looked back.

History

• Est. 2011
• Started on macos, now used on both macos and WSL2 (currently Arch) instances
• My professional dev work shifted over the years from PHP, to Ruby, to Elixir
• Included my Vim setup until 2020, when I moved it to a separate repository

Installation

You can clone this repo wherever you want, but this assumes you'll save the files in ~/.dotfiles:

git clone [email protected]:davelens/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
~/.dotfiles/setup/install

User-specific configuration and Bitwarden

Because Bitwarden is my password manager of choice, I tailored the installer to ask you if you want to use bitwarden-cli to retrieve some data related to your Github account and ~/.gitconfig.

This is entirely optional; you will still get prompted to enter the data manually.

Uninstall

~/.dotfiles/setup/uninstall

Custom bash scripts

You can call custom bash scripts using the utility command, which is also aliased to u:

Usage: utility <category> <command> [<args>...]

It comes with autocompletion on both category and command to help you find what you're looking for.

Linking your own homebrew scripts

You can symlink a directory with some of your personal scripts into bin/utilities/, and utility will pick them up automagically.

macos defaults

config/macos/defaults.sh is a large file full of subjective macos system settings and overrides. All credit here should be given to @mathiasbynens, who painstakingly compiled and maintains it.

Disclaimer: There is no revert option, so use this at your own discretion:

source ~/.dotfiles/config/macos/defaults.sh