dotfiles

See the minimal directory for minimal dotfiles (< 100 lines) that can easily be copied to a remote host.

Useful tools:

On Mac, install Homebrew:

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Run brew bundle which will install the packages listed in Brewfile

• ag (the_silver_searcher) - fast file search; like grep and ack but faster
• jq - JSON processor tool (useful for processing JSON in Bash scripts)
• fzf - command-line fuzzy finder
• asdf - runtime version manager for various languages (ruby, node, scala, etc)

Windows tools:

• PowerToys
• Windows Terminal

macOS tools:

• iTerm2 - much better than the stock Terminal.app; supports Tmux integration
• Karabiner-Elements
  • See mac/karabiner directory for setting up a compose key on macOS

vim / neovim

Neovim is a modern vim replacement. See the .config/nvim directory for my neovim config. Plugins are handled by lazy.nvim which should be install and update itself automatically.

Bring up the Lazy UI using :Lazy or <Space>I.

If you want to start your own neovim config, I would recommend starting off with some minimal templates like and adding onto to it incrementally:

• nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim - lua-based, neovim-only config that uses lazy.nvim
• theopn/kickstart.vim - vimscript version of kickstart.nvim that uses Plug
• rstacruz/vim-from-scratch for regular Vim (repo is deprecated but still useful to see for how VimScript works)

Linux Desktop 🚀

Wayland for the win

• kitty - terminal
• hyprland - Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling
• niri - Wayland compositor with scrollable tiling
• quickshell - composable and reusable desktop widgets (status bars, menus, notifications, etc)

Quickshell configs:

• Dank Linux (dms) - full-fledged suite of quickshell widgets and desktop customizations for niri and hyprland. maximum dank
• caelestia shell - another great suite of quickshell widgets for hyprland

There are also a lot of distros like LazyVim, LunarVim, NvChad that come with a much more IDE-like setup out of the box; these are useful for inspiration for plugins but I would not recommend starting off with these.

Inspiration:

• https://andrew.cloud/dev-setup/
• https://github.com/minimal/dotfiles
• https://www.hamvocke.com/blog/a-guide-to-customizing-your-tmux-conf/