Dotfiles

Fresh start checklist

The folowing steps assumes you are starting from scratch.

• Install brew and the following:

brew install hub node cask google-chrome 1password iterm2 nvalt spotify backblaze licecap dropbox slack the_silver_searcher macvim figma itsycal nvim zsh the-archive

• Install Node Version Manager
• Install ohmyzsh
• Remap CapsLock to ESC from System preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys....
• Set the following git globals (replacing my credentials with your own):

git config --global user.name 'tristen'
git config --global user.email 'tristen.brown@gmail.com'
git config --global push.default simple
git config --global help.autocorrect 1
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
git config --global color.ui true
git config --global alias.up 'pull --rebase --autostash'
git config --global init.defaultBranch main
git config --global alias.track '!git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/`git symbolic-ref --short HEAD`'
git config --global rerere.enabled true

• Generate a new SSH keypair (replacing my email with your own):

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "tristen.brown@gmail.com"

• Add new SSH key to GitHub:

pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

• Configure the SSH key to use with SSO
• Remove any unused SSH keys from GitHub.
• Clone this repo:

cd ~/ && git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:tristen/dotfiles.git

• Create the following directories:

mkdir ~/.vim/swap ~/dev ~/dev/github ~/dev/mapbox

• Run bootstrap.sh

./dotfiles/bootstrap.sh

• Log in to npm:

npm adduser

• Install Vim Plug
• Run PlugInstall in Vim

:PlugInstall

• Add any desired globals from npm
• Add desired Quicklook plugins: https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins
• Clone and set up work (Mapbox) commandline tool
• Install a Native version of Inkscape

Updating

git pull
git submodule foreach 'git pull origin HEAD'
./bootstrap.sh

• Replace UNIX commands as necessary https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix