Synopsis

I hate installing, configuring, and updating software on my computer. For example when I'm using a new machine, or sshing into a remote system. I've automated as much of that process as I can, keeping everything as lightweight as possible.

Do everything

Configure and install everything:

cd && curl -LOks https://github.com/lexicalunit/dotfiles/tarball/master
tar xvzf master --strip 1 -C . && rm master
bin/equip -f all

Usage

1. Clone this repository into your home directory.
2. Source your new environment by opening a new terminal or running . ~/.profile.
3. Execute the command equip all to step through configuration of system settings, installation of applications, and creation of your complete developer environment.

You can also use the tool bin/deploy_dotfiles to automatically export these settings to a remote machine.

Maintenance

• Your home directory is a git repository now! Track changes and commit updates as needed.
• There are some git hooks in env that generate certain files for you.
• Re-run equip all periodically to update applications and configuration.
• Don't forget to git pull any updates!

Not Automated

There's some things that I would like to have automated but I haven't found a way yet.

• Automatically start up after being installed: Dropbox, Rectangle, Flux
• Automatically setup launch at startup: Rectangle, Amphetamine
• Automatically setup iterm2's config location
• Automatically set up the Dock's icons
• Automatically install web browser extensions
• Disable "Show recent applications in Dock"
• Enable zoom via ctrl + mouse wheel scroll
• Enable zoom follows mouse pointer
• Enable text to speech for selected text via option + esc

Environment: ~/env

• Solarized Light.itermcolors and Solarized Light xterm-256color.terminal themes to use in Terminal.app or iTerm.app.
• com.googlecode.iterm2.plist are my settings for iTerm.app.
• Rio.jpg is my favorite Desktop image.
• Inconsolata.otf is my favorite font for writing code, it's automatically installed during the bin/equip env step.
• The post-commit and pre-commit files are git hooks use to maintain this repository. They're also installed as part of the bin/equip env step.
• prompt_lexical_setup is my prezto prompt theme, installed as part of the bin/equip env step.
• nice.css is a nice style sheet useful for overriding annoying websites.
• dircolors_examples.tgz is used by bin/show_dircolors.

Utilities: ~/bin

Installed into your ~/bin directory, these tools will be on your PATH. For detailed usage documentation see the README.md for ~/bin, or of course run any of the tools with the argument --help.

Note: Some scripts in this repository are written assuming that you're using zsh as your shell. As of macOS Catalina the default shell is zsh. However, most scripts in ~/bin are written with a /bin/bash shebang because I like to use shellcheck to ensure code quality. Where possible I've tried to maintain backwards compatibility with bash, but I make no guarantees. You should start using zsh as soon as possible. It's so much better. In the future there will hopefully be direct support for #!/usr/bin/env zsh in shellcheck.

Tool	Usage
alert	Provides shell level windowed alerting system.
backmost	Send the current frontmost windowed macOS application to the back.
br	Reset hue light files.
busy	Turn on a busy light.
capture_x	Creates a screenshot of selected window on X11.
card	Fetches a card image from Scryfall and converts it to a PNG.
cleanup	Cleans system and application caches on macOS.
codeclimate	Runs Code Climate on the current working directory.
colortest	Prints out an entire color palette of terminal color codes.
daemons	Finds and removes unwanted daemons and agents.
deploy_dotfiles	Installs bin and env from this repository to remote server via ssh.
die	Kills processes based on process name.
doc	Builds HTML output from Markdown file.
dogs	Streams system logs for docker containers.
drc	Run a Check django backend.
equip	Install applications and development environment on an macOS or Lin...
faff	Sleeps for the given number of seconds, showing a progress bar.
firefox-tabs	Attempts to list the currently open urls in your Firefox tabs.
flip	Flips input upside down.
git-arc	Tool for archiving and restoring git branches.
git-authors	Git script for discovering who wrote the code at the current workin...
git-fp	Git script for cleaning up merged tracking branches.
git-lg	Git script for printing beautiful logs.
git-ltr	Lists (a-la 'ls -ltr') git controlled source files in current direc...
git-name-change	Clones a repo then changes the name and email address in entire his...
git-parent	Finds the direct parent of the current branch in git.
git-pretty	Runs prettier on vue/js/ts files in the most recent N commits.
git-pt	Force updates remote topic branch with local branch.
git-recon	A tool for reconciling your local git repositories.
git-run	Runs a command on files that have recently changed.
git-tidy	Tidies up all the junk this repository.
git-what	Build a useful git description of the changes in this branch.
git-wrote	Who wrote the most lines for the files in the current directory.
golist	Looks for downloaded go modules in your system go path.
install_odbc	Sets up ODBC.
macosver	Prints current macOS version information.
mc_support	Hit a backend support endpoint.
mon	Month name to number and vice versa.
nodeula-rasa	Gives you a total clean slate in your node project.
nopw	Enables password-less ssh TO username@remotehost FROM localhost.
npm-update	Tries to update package dependencies to latest using ncu, npm, and ...
paystub	Get your latest paystub as PDF from Check's API.
pc	Blow away and reinstall all pre-commit hooks.
pipc	Pip compiles any requirement*.in files in the current directory.
pipi	Pip installs any requirements files in the current directory.
ppt	Runs pytest tests locally.
rc	Spin up or attach to tumx running Check development services.
resend	Resend an incident notification.
root	Prints the root of the current repository.
set_wallpaper	Uses Cocoa classes via PyObjC to set a desktop wallpaper on all scr...
show_dircolors	Shows example output based on current dircolors settings.
slept	Get time macOS system last went to sleep.
snake	Convert camelCase to snake_case.
uninstall_homebrew	Uninstalls Homebrew.
usages	Prints out documentation and usages for utilities.
weather	Show the current weather directly in your terminal.
whereami	Prints your current city name using your geoip location.
woke	Get time macOS system last woke from sleep.
xdie	Kills processes based on their window title.
xf	Extract common file formats.
zoomwatcher	A service that watches for zoom and turns a hue light red if it is ...

What does equip all install?

Glad you asked! equip all will go through the following steps one by one. For the steps that install packages/formulas/casks/whatever, see below for the list of included items.

Step	Description
xcode	Ensure that Xcode Command Line Tools are installed
dotfiles	Ensure home directory is a git repository for dotfiles
brew	Ensure Homebrew installed, formulas upgraded, and Theine installed
cask	Ensure Homebrew Casks are installed
ext	Ensure file extension associations are correct
zsh	Ensure shell is latest version of zsh from Homebrew
env	Update environment configuration and submodules
python	Upgrade/Install python and conda packages
node	Ensure Node modules are installed via npm
go	Ensure Go packages are installed
cargo	Ensure Rust packages are installed via cargo
code	Ensure VS Code installed via Homebrew Cask and its packages are installed
osx	Override macOS "defaults" settings and configuration
dot	Runs steps: dotfiles zsh env
apps	Runs steps: xcode brew cask ext python node go cargo code
most	Runs steps: apps dot (basically everything but the osx step)
all	Runs all steps

Homebrew Formulas: autoconf, awscli, bash, brotli, c-ares, cabal-install, chrome-cli, coreutils, defaultbrowser, diff-so-fancy, direnv, duti, exiftool, expect, fasd, fontconfig, freetype, fribidi, fzf, gdbm, gettext, ghc, ghostscript, git, git-lfs, git-secrets, glances, glib, gnu-sed, gnu-tar, go, gobject-introspection, graphite2, harfbuzz, icu4c, imagemagick@6, jbig2dec, jemalloc, jez/formulae/pandoc-sidenote, jpeg, jq, krb5, libev, libevent, libffi, libidn, libidn2, libpng, libpthread-stubs, libssh2, libtiff, libtool, libunistring, libuv, libx11, libxau, libxcb, libxdmcp, libxext, libxrender, libyaml, little-cms2, lsd, lzo, m4, mas, mpdecimal, ncurses, nghttp2, node, nvm, oniguruma, openhue-cli, openjpeg, openssl@1.1, pandoc, pango, pcre, pcre2, pidof, pixman, pkg-config, postgresql, pyenv, pyenv-virtualenv, pyenv-virtualenvwrapper, pyright, readline, ripgrep, rlwrap, rust, shellcheck, shfmt, six, sqlite, tcl-tk, tmux, toolbox, tree, utf8proc, uv, vramsteg, watch, wdiff, webp, wget, xorgproto, xz, yarn, zsh

Homebrew Casks: 1password, 1password/tap/1password-cli, chromedriver, discord, disk-inventory-x, docker, dropbox, fantastical, flux, font-fira-code, font-hack-nerd-font, google-chrome, iexplorer, iterm2, lingon-x, mactex, ngrok, obsidian, omnifocus, rectangle, signal, slack, snes9x, sourcetree, spotify, steam, tableplus, texstudio, the-unarchiver, transmission, vagrant, visual-studio-code, vlc

Code Packages: be5invis.toml, bibhasdn.unique-lines, charliermarsh.ruff, DavidAnson.vscode-markdownlint, dbaeumer.vscode-eslint, eamodio.gitlens, esbenp.prettier-vscode, exiasr.hadolint, foxundermoon.shell-format, GitHub.copilot, GitHub.copilot-chat, hashicorp.terraform, HookyQR.beautify, James-Yu.latex-workshop, joe-re.sql-language-server, karunamurti.haml, mgmcdermott.vscode-language-babel, mike-co.import-sorter, mohsen1.prettify-json, ms-azuretools.vscode-docker, ms-python.debugpy, ms-python.python, ms-python.vscode-pylance, ms-vscode.live-server, nickmillerdev.pytest-fixtures, PascalReitermann93.vscode-yaml-sort, redhat.vscode-yaml, richie5um2.vscode-sort-json, streetsidesoftware.code-spell-checker, sysoev.language-stylus, timonwong.shellcheck

Conda Packages: appdirs, appnope, attrs, backcall, brotlipy, ca-certificates, cachecontrol, cachy, certifi, cffi, charset-normalizer, cleo, clikit, crashtest, cryptography, decorator, distlib, filelock, html5lib, idna, importlib_metadata, importlib-metadata, iniconfig, ipython, ipython_genutils, jedi, jsonschema, keyring, libcxx, libffi, lockfile, lz4, lz4-c, matplotlib-inline, more-itertools, msgpack-python, ncurses, openssl, packaging, parso, pastel, pexpect, pickleshare, pip, pkginfo, pluggy, poetry, poetry-core, prompt-toolkit, ptyprocess, py, pycosat, pycparser, pygments, pylev, pyopenssl, pyparsing, pyrsistent, pysocks, pytest, pyyaml, readline, requests, requests-toolbelt, ruamel_yaml, setuptools, shellingham, six, sqlite, tk, toml, tomlkit, tqdm, traitlets, urllib3, virtualenv, wcwidth, webencodings, wheel, xz, yaml, zipp, zlib

Node Modules: @ibm/plex, all-contributors-cli, create-react-app, cson, dockerlint, eslint, external-ip, generator-code, generator-generator, geoip-lite, js-beautify, JSON, json-stable-stringify, moment, nesh, npm-check-updates, npm-remote-ls, npm-why, prettier, raml2html, standard, tmpin, typescript, yo

Go Packages: github.com/BurntSushi/toml, github.com/BurntSushi/toml/cmd/tomlv

Cargo Packages: cargo-update, jless, loc, porsmo

License

Inconsolata font Created by Raph Levien using his own tools and FontForge.
Copyright 2006 Raph Levien. Released under the SIL Open Font License.


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