Computer Setups

I was directed to a great macOS Setup Guide back in 2016 after a MacBook Air died and I had no way of recovering all of my settings and tweaks after a few good years of use. This guide is good, but it doesn't actually automate many things. Enter Dotfiles and all of it's splendor, and now I have a project to keep me occupied in my spare time.

• I like Holman's dotfiles project layout so I'll probably be stealing it.
• I also like the idea of using Stow for managing symlinks.
• And Credit to Mathias' MAC setup script because I don't know enough about MAC config on CLI to write my own.

Directory Structure

.
├── application1
│   └── install.sh
├── application2
│   ├── install.sh
│   ├── dotfiles
|   |   ├── .somerc
|   |   └── .config
|   |       └── .somerc
│   └── somefile.ext
├── bootstrap.ps1
├── bootstrap.sh
└── README.md

Windows Setup

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
.\bootstrap.ps1

What Should Happen

• Run chocolatey-installs.ps1 to install chocolatey and other basic packages
• Import Classic Shell settings
• Display settings for smaller text
• Display settings to enable Night light

Linux Setup

./bootstrap.sh

What Should Happen

• Gnome Tweak Tools
• Gnome extensions
  • Dash to dock (or dock to dash, can't remember which one)
  • extensions in panel
  • Music player in panel

Mac Setup

./bootstrap.sh

What Should Happen

• Install Homebrew
  • Iterate over all dirs and run install.sh in each
  • Iterate over all dirs and check for brewfile and install
• Copy dotfiles
  • Iterate over all dirs and stow to ~

Applications Installed

• Xcode
• Homebrew
• Firefox
  • Move userchrome.css to right dir
• Stow
• iTerm2
• Zsh - installed by default on new Mac but still will want to configure
  • tree
• Git
• Bash Completion
• VSCode
  • Plugins:
    • Flake8 python linter
    • Docker
    • Live Server
    • Live Share
    • Material Icon theme
    • Powershell
    • Python
    • Ruby
    • SSH FS
    • Terraform
    • VSCode Ruby
    • vscode-icons
    • YAML
  • Some way of keeping plugins up to date?
• Python
  • pyenv
    • pyenv-virtualenv
  • Pip
  • virtualenv
  • IPython
• MySQL
• Ruby
  • rbenv
  • RubyGems
• Vagrant
• Docker

  • brew install bash-completion
    brew install docker-completion
    brew install docker-compose-completion
    brew install docker-machine-completion

• Chrome
  • Chrome Remote Desktop
• Google Drive backup
• GCloud
• Terraform
  • tfenv
  • terraform-docs
  • terragrunt
• Kubernetes
  • kubectl
  • kubectx
  • Helm
• Ansible
• Sensible Side Buttons
• Rectangle
• NMap
• Logrotate
• Slack
• Microsoft Teams

Are these preinstalled on modern MacOS?

• wget
• glances or htop
• openssl

Other Useful things

Logrotate bash history but keep last N lines

TLDR: https://kowalcj0.github.io/posts/2019/logrotate-bash-history/ in /etc/logrotate.d/bashhistory...

/home/$USERNAME/.bash_history {
  weekly
  missingok
  rotate 5
  size 5000k
  nomail
  notifempty
  create 600 $USERNAME $USERNAME
  postrotate
    tail -n100 $1 > /home/$USERNAME/.bash_history;
    mkdir -p /home/$USERNAME/bash_history
    mv $1 /home/$USERNAME/bash_history/$1
  endscript
}

Hiding Users

From: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203998

sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser IsHidden 1

Hide Home Dir/Share Point

sudo mv /Users/hiddenuser /var/hiddenuser
sudo dscl . create /Users/hiddenuser NFSHomeDirectory /var/hiddenuser
sudo dscl . delete "/SharePoints/Hidden User's Public Folder"