Braden's Dotfiles

Almost certainly out-of-date.

Table of Contents 📚

• Introduction
• Installation
• Applications
  • Quality of Life
  • Development
    • iOS
    • Android
• Shell

Introduction 💪

A notepad primarily aimed at reminding myself how to cook my porridge setup my machine just the way I like it. Aimed for MacOS, but some support for WSL.

Includes favorite applications, dot-files, shell tools etc...

Installation 👨🏼‍💻

1. Install Command Line Tools: sudo xcode-select --install
2. Install Brew package manager: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
3. Install YADM and clone this repo: https://yadm.io/docs/install#freebsd
4. Setup SSH key with GitHub: Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent
5. Follow Terminal instructions in Development

Applications 🎁

Quality of Life 🌅

• Browser - Brave: brew install brave-browser
• Password Manager - 1Password: brew install 1password
• Spotlight - Raycast: brew install raycast
• System Monitor - iStat Menus: brew install istat-menus
• Menu Bar - Bartender: brew install bartender
• Screenshots - Cleanshot: brew install cleanshot
• Colour Picker - Sip: brew install homebrew/cask/sip
• Window Manager - Magnet: Download from App Store
• Email - Spark: Download from App Store
• Photo Editor - Affinity Photo: Download from App Store
• Graphic Editor - Affinity Designer: Download from App Store
• Digital Media - Adobe: brew install adobe-creative-cloud
• Media Player - Plex: brew install plex
• Splash Screen - Brooklyn: brew install brooklyn

Development 🏗

• Font - JetBrains Mono Nerd font: brew install homebrew/cask-fonts/font-jetbrains-mono-nerd-font
• Terminal - Alacritty: brew install alacritty
• Terminal - iTerm2: brew install iterm2
  • Git Clone Dracula theme
  • Configure font, transparency and blur.
  • .config/iterm2/Default.json can be loaded in.
• Editor - Visual Studio Code: brew install visual-studio-code
  • Settings synced via GitHub.
• Mobile Debugger - Flipper: brew install flipper

iOS 🍎

1. Install Xcode: Download from App Store
2. Install Cocoapods: sudo gem install cocoapods

• For M1 ARM macs:
  • sudo arch -x86_64 gem install ffi
  • arch -x86_64 pod install

Android 🤖

1. Install Java8: brew install adoptopenjdk/openjdk/adoptopenjdk8
2. Install Android Studio: brew install android-studio
3. Open Android Studio, then choose Preferences... from the menu bar. Go to Appearance & behaviour -> System Settings -> Android SDK. From here, select and install the following:
   1. SDK Platforms tab.
      1. Android 9.0 (Pie)
   2. SDK Tools tab.
      1. Android SDK Command-line Tools (latest)
      2. Android Emulator
      3. Android SDK Platform-Tools
      4. Intel x86 Emulator Accelerator (HAXM installer)
      5. (.zshrc exports ANDROID_HOME and amends PATH)
4. Sign soul away: sdkmanager --licenses

Shell 🐚

• Shell - ZSH: brew install zsh
• Plugin Manager - Antigen: brew install antigen
  • Currently missing latest M1 build. Track issue Add macOS ARM builds to CI
• Prompt Theme - Starship: brew install starship
• Session Manager - Tmux: brew install tmux
  • Plugin Manager - TPM: git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm
    • Fire install command: https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm#installing-plugins
• Editor - Neovim: brew install neovim
  • Install vim-plug for Neovim:

      sh -c 'curl -fLo "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}"/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs \
            https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'
    

• List Command - EXA: brew install exa
• File Explorer - Ranger: brew install ranger
• Fuzzy CD - Autojump: brew install autojump
• Python Environments - Pyenv: brew install pyenv
• Ruby Environments - Rbenv: brew install pyenv
• Node Environments - FNM: brew install fnm
  • Install node version: fnm install 16.6.0
• Node Package Manager - Yarn: brew install yarn
  • Install node version: fnm install 16.6.0
• GitHub SSH key:
  • See Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent