dotfiles

Enhanced Mathias’s dotfiles, sensible hacker defaults for Linux and macOS.

Warning:
If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Trying with Docker

docker run -it --rm apemost/dotfiles

Requirements

• zsh: version 4.3.9 or higher
• git: version 1.7 or higher

Installation

You can clone this repository wherever you want. The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/apemost/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

source bootstrap.sh

Shell prompt

Install Starship using Homebrew:

brew install starship

uv

An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

# Homebrew
brew install goenv

# Manual installation
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

goenv

Like pyenv and rbenv, but for Go

# Homebrew
brew install goenv

# Manual installation
git clone https://github.com/go-nv/goenv.git ~/.goenv

nvm

Node Version Manager - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

mkdir -p ~/.nvm
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.4/install.sh | bash

SDKMAN!

The Software Development Kit Manager

curl -s https://get.sdkman.io | bash

fvm

Flutter Version Management: A simple CLI to manage Flutter SDK versions.

# Homebrew
brew install fvm

# Manual installation
curl -fsSL https://fvm.app/install.sh | bash

FAQ

How to add custom commands without creating a new fork

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

How to install and set up zsh as default

See https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH.

Recommended terminal color schemes/themes

Color Scheme	Terminal
Gruvbox Dark	iTerm2, Terminal
Molokai	iTerm2, Terminal

Alternatively, you can find over 200 terminal color schemes/themes here for iTerm/iTerm2, Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, and MobaXterm.

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

License

MIT