:: bits & bobs, dots & things.
          
     @megalithic

Installation

If you want to kick the tires, you can simply:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/megalithic/dotfiles/main/bin/_dotup | zsh

The install script will install things and symlink the appropriate files in ~/.dotfiles to your home directory (~). Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles, though. The majority of files and folders get stowed in to your $HOME, or to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

I have tried to be platform agnostic, but the majority of scripts that run here are for macOS (specifically Big Sur at the time of this edit), with a handful of debian/ubuntu linux specific platform scripts and provisions. This means that certain tools/binaries I rely on may or may not install/configure on linux. Though, I have tested it decently well on an Ubuntu-based Linode instance.

Thar be dragons..

I highly recommend you dig into the scripts and configs to see what all is going on (because it does a lot that I'm not describing here) before you install a stranger's shell scripts all willy-nilly, throwing caution to the wind.

Things

A few of the must-have tools I roll with:

• homebrew
  • see ~/.dotfiles/Brewfile for all that gets installed
• hammerspoon
• karabiner-elements
  • see ~/.dotfiles/keyboard for macOS specific config things
  • see my Atreus62 config for my custom keyboard setup
• tmux
  • additional tmux statusbar binaries available (see tmux-* files in ~/.dotfiles/bin).
  • see also my DND tmux plugin
• jetbrains mono
  • patched via nerd-fonts
• kitty
• everforest & megaforest
• neovim
  • using lua with neovim? https://awesomeopensource.com/project/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide
• zsh
  • starship
• weechat

Stuff

The file hierarchy:

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• Everything else is handled by custom installers based upon the current platform; otherwise, stow handles the rest (clean and easy symlinking).

Privates

Use ~/.localrc as your location for sensitive information. Optionally, you can let bin/_dotup handle the cloning of your private repo to ~/.dotfiles/private, which will execute an install script, assuming it's located at ~/.dotfiles/private/install.sh.

NOTE: You'll want to be sure to setup an SSH key for github access to this repo and likely to your private repo too: https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/github/authenticating-to-github/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent

Also helpful: https://docs.github.com/en/[email protected]/github/using-git/caching-your-github-credentials-in-git

🙏 Props

• So many esteemed individuals in the community have, in some way, left their mark on my own dotfilery (they're all legends in my book):

  • Zach Holman
  • Wynn Netherland
  • Evan Travers
  • Dorian Karter
  • Phil Ridlen
  • .. and many, many others.

Refs:

• A wealth of handy scripts/bins for future use: https://awesomeopensource.com/project/salman-abedin/alfred
• Neovim lua migration resource: https://awesomeopensource.com/project/nanotee/nvim-lua-guide
• Great (n)vim knowledge base: https://github.com/feniljain/knowledge-base/blob/main/vim/README.md
• My reference for things to research/add/remove/etc.: https://github.com/megalithic/dotfiles/issues/23