dotfiles

Here are instructions to reproduce my development environment on macOS, along with all my dotfiles.

Check out the companion blog post: Your dev environment is your ideal supermarket.

Installation instructions for Mac

Foundation

After the first boot, perform all the possible OS updates:

• install major and minor upgrades in System Settings > Software Updates, then reboot and check again until there are no more updates
• in terminal, install XCode command line tools: xcode-select --install
• check again System Settings > Software Updates and install updates if available, then reboot again. Repeat until there are no more updates.
• System Settings > Privacy & Security > FileVault: click Turn On FileVault then set a recovery key and save it in password manager, then reboot
• Log into Apple ID account in AppStore

Create important directories:

• mkdir ~/workspace
• mkdir -p ~/.local/bin

Configure Mac settings:

• Appearance: set Show scroll bars to Always
• Lock Screen > Turn display off on ...: turn display off after 20 min on battery, after 1h for power adapter
• Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom > disable Natural Scrolling
• Mouse > disable Natural Scrolling
• Add printer

Keyboard

• Keyboard > Text Input > Edit... then disable "Use smart quotes and dashes"
• Keyboard: set Key Repeat to fastest and Delay until Repeat to shortest
• Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Mission Control > disable Mission Control
  • Mission Control > disable Show Desktop (F11)
  • Display > disable decrease and increase (F14 and F15)
  • Input Sources: uncheck Select the previous ... and Select the next ...
  • Keyboard > Move focus to active or next window: press CMD + <
  • Keyboard > disable "Turn keyboard access on or off" + "Move focus to the menu bar" + "Move focus to the Dock" + "Move focus to the window toolbar" + "Move focus to the floating window" + "Move focus to status menus" + "Change the way Tab moves focus" (F1-2-3, F5-6-7-8)
  • Spotlight: disable Show Spotlight search and Show Finder search window
• Accessibility > Pointer Control > Mouse Options: set to 3rd cursor from the right
• Mouse > Tracking speed: set to 3rd cursor from the right (this needs a mouse to be plugged in)

Desktop and dock

• Desktop & Dock: set a small size, set Position on screen to right and set Automatically hide and show the Dock
• remove all optional icons from Dock
• Desktop & Dock > Shortcuts: deactivate ALT-DOWN (Mission Control) and ALT-UP (Application windows) by replacing them with -
• Control Center > Battery: Show Percentage

Screen captures

• mkdir ~/workspace/screen-recordings ~/workspace/screen-recordings
• Screenshot app: go to Options > Save to > Other location > set to ~/workspace/screenshots
• Quicktime > New Screen Recording > Options > Other location > set to ~/workspace/screen-recordings

Finder

• Finder app: go to Settings > Advanced and check Show all filename extensions
• Finder > General > New Finder windows show set to ~/workspace
• Finder > Sidebar > Disable disable Recents + Desktop + Documents + Downloads + iCloud Drive + CDs/DVDs + Cloud Storage + Bonjour computers + Connected servers
• Finder > Advanced > When performing a search set Search the Current Folder
• Finder: Add ~/workspace and ~ to favorites (in the left menu bar)

Terminal

Install Brew:

• /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
• echo '# If chezmoi not yet applied, register Brew\nif [[ ! -f "$HOME/.zshrc_custom.zsh" ]]; then\n eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)";\nfi' > ~/.zshenv

Terminal configuration

• generate SSH key
• brew install zsh-completions
  • ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "$(date "+%Y%m%d")-DEVICE-NAME"
• install oh-my-zsh and some of its extensions

# Install oh-my-zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

# Install oh-my-zsh extensions
git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions && \
  git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting && \
  git clone https://github.com/MichaelAquilina/zsh-you-should-use.git $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/you-should-use

Install Wezterm:

• brew install --cask wezterm
• install Wezterm terminal integration
  • curl -sL -o ~/.wezterm_integration.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wez/wezterm/main/assets/shell-integration/wezterm.sh
• close Terminal app and open Wezterm app
• System Settings > Privacy & Security > Privacy > Full Disk Access: add Wezterm from Applications directory

Terminal applications

Install Brew terminal applications

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pwalch/dotfiles/main/brew_install.sh | bash

Python

• cd ~
• lonesnake --py 3.11 (thefuck doesn't work with 3.12)
• ~/.lonesnake/venv/bin/pip install pipx
• for PACKAGE in itomate thefuck httpie magic-wormhole black isort flake8; do ~/.lonesnake/venv/bin/pipx install "$PACKAGE"; done

AWS

• aws configure and enter default keys
• mkdir -p ~/.docker && echo '{"credsStore": "ecr-login"}' > ~/.docker/config.json
• workaround for Docker for Mac issue
  • alias docker-configure-ecr="mkdir -p ~/.docker && echo '{\"credsStore\": \"ecr-login\"}' > ~/.docker/config.json"

Apply chezmoi

• apply chezmoi
  • sh -c "$(curl -fsLS git.io/chezmoi)" -- init --apply pwalch

GUI applications

Install all Brew Cask applications, then start all of them for the first time:

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pwalch/dotfiles/main/brew_cask_install.sh | bash

• Ukelele:

  • mkdir ~/.keyboard-layouts
  • File > Install > Show Organizer > Set Folder and select ~/.keyboard-layouts
  • File > New From Current Input Source, then right-click on "Swiss French" and click "Set Keyboard Name and Script" and set name to Swiss French pwalch,
  • double-click on Swiss French pwalch, then press OPT on physical keyboard and double click on ~ key square, go to "Terminator" tab and put the empty string, then to Make Output and put the ~ character (including the space to complete its constructions)
  • File > Save, select File Format "Keyboard Layout Bundle" and save as ~/.keyboard-layouts/swiss-french-pwalch.bundle
  • drag'n'drop swiss-french-pwalch from Not Installed column to "Installed for All Users" column, then enter password and proceed
  • you will be asked to reboot, press ok, then reboot
  • System Settings > Keyboard > Text Input > Input Sources > Edit > Press Plus, in "French", select Swiss French pwalch
  • on the top-right of the screen, select keyboard layout Swiss French pwalch
  • tilde should now type directly, without needing a space

• Rectangle: start app and set up permissions, set shortcuts for left/right half, next/previous display and fullscreen, launch on login, hide menu bar icon

• Flycut: start app and set up permissions, set shortcut to CMD + SHIFT + K, check Move pasted item to top of stack, Privacy & Security > Privacy > Accessibility add Flycut, launch on login by going to "Login Items" and adding "Flycut.app" (TermiT/Flycut#206)

• noTunes

  • start noTunes app and accept to open
  • System Preferences > Login Items in Open at Login add noTunes

• GIMP: start app as it takes longer the first time

Chrome

• make default browser, disable form autofill and password management, install uBlock Origin and 1Password
• Settings > Privacy and security > Security > Scroll to bottom: toggle Always use secure connections
• in Settings > Keyboard > App Shortcuts, set Select Previous Tab to CMD-UP Select Next Tab to CMD-DOWN, Move Tab to New Window to CMD-D
• start a meeting on Google Meet and try to get audio, video and share screen, which will trigger permissions request and require restarting the app

Firefox

• make default browser, disable password autofill, install uBlock Origin extension
• Privacy & Security > Passwordsuncheck Ask to save passwords
• Privacy & Security HTTPS-Only Mode select Enable HTTPS-Only mode in all windows
• log in

Thunderbird: set up email accounts

• Gmail: imap.gmail.com:993, smtp.gmail.com:993 with email address as user name and application password as password
• in account settings in Copies & Folders, check Bcc these email addresses with the email address of the account so all sent messages go to the inbox

Zoom

• log in, start a meeting and try to get audio, video and share screen, which will trigger permissions request and require restarting the app
• in Background & Effects and enable virtual background
• in Audio check Automatically join computer audio when joining and Mute my mic when joining
• in Video check Stop my video when joining
• in PMI Settings (appears when clicking on down-arrow next to New Meeting button), check Waiting Room and Mute participants upon entry
• disable audio and video when starting a meeting

Raycast

• use CMD-SPACE as Raycast shortcut
• mkdir ~/.local/bin/raycast
• Extensions > Script Commands > Add Directories: add ~/.local/bin/raycast

VS Code:

• in macOS System Settings, go to Privacy & Security > Privacy > Full Disk Access then add VS Code
• Settings > Profile then Import Profile...
• import profile from pwalch.code-profile in the repo

Notes about VS Code profile:

• "key": "cmd+[Backslash]" is actually '#', not backslash
• various points of interest
  • workbench.action.previousEditor
  • workbench.action.nextEditor
  • viewContainer.workbench.view.explorer.enabled
  • explorer.openAndPassFocus
  • workbench.action.splitEditorRight

Kinesis Keyboard config

• enter Power User Mode: PROGM + SHIFT + ESC
• enable/disable virtual drive: PROGM + F1

state.txt

startup_file=p_qwerty.txt
key_click_tone=ON
toggle_tone=ON
macro_disable=OFF
macro_speed=3
status_play_speed=3
power_user=true

v_drive_open_on_startup=off

p_qwerty.txt

{=}>{speed8}{-lshift}{=}{+lshift}{space}
{lshift}{=}>{speed8}{=}
{caps}>{speed8}{-lctrl}{z}{+lctrl}
[lctrl]>[rctrl]
[lalt]>[lalt]
[ralt]>[rctrl]
[rctrl]>[lalt]
[delete]>[lwin]
[end]>[delete]
{home}>{speed8}{-lshift}{2}{+lshift}

Tips

• on virtual keyboard, rctrl points to left CTRL key
• in Kinesis config file, rctrl corresponds to the expected CTRL-RIGHT key
• LeftOpt and RightOpt lead to the same key in virtual keyboard
• known correspondances between physical keyboard and Kinesis key names
  • STRG LEFT => lctrl
  • ALT LEFT => lalt
  • ALT GR => ralt
  • STRG RIGHT => rctrl

optional paging replacement

{pup}>{speed8}{up}{up}{up}{up}{up}{up}{up}{up}{up}{up}
{pdown}>{speed8}{down}{down}{down}{down}{down}{down}{down}{down}{down}{down}