dotfiles

These dotfiles are designed to strike a good balance between minimalism and great features.

⚡Getting Started

I manage my dotfiles using chezmoi. Setting up a new machine can be done by running one line.

For my complete setup read My clean and simple terminal setup.

🔨 Featured Tools

Note

While a lot of these tools will be useful to you out of the box, I highly recommend reading the respective docs and watching a showcase.

Config Files

• chezmoi for dotfile management.
• nvim as primary editor. Configured using kickstart.
• ghostty as a configurable, cross-platform terminal. I added support for changing the font and theme on the fly.

Mentioned in .zshrc

• zoxide for jumping around using z.
• eza as ls replacement.
• bat as cat replacement.
• fzf as a fuzzy finder.
• jq as a JSON processor.
• lazygit as a simple terminal UI for git commands.
• Starship as shell prompt.
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• A lot of functions and aliases to make my life easier.

Fonts

To make Neovim and some of the other CLI tools look good you will need a Nerdfont. Some terminals like Ghostty already have Nerdfont icons packaged. This means you will not need to patch your fonts.

• Iosevka. To use Iosevka, go to the repo, pick the font variant you like (e.g. SS14), and download the term variant. In iTerm pick the Extended variant and use a Nerd Font like Meslo for non ascii characters.
• Maple Mono. This font is a lot more playful than Iosevka.
• Meslo Nerd Font

For note taking I am a big fan of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next.

Themes

• Tokyonight
• GruvboxDarkHard
• Snazzy Terminal Theme
• Vague

Environments

• uv for Python.
• mise for Node.js and Go.

MacOS Settings

I also included a small script that uses default to automatically configure my settings. Read through .macos to see if you would like to use the same settings.

Productive Keyboard Setup

I use Karabiner Elements to optimize my built-in keyboard.

Future changes

• Learn tee and GNU parallel.
  • It's called tee because it makes a T. Data flows across the top of the T (from stdin to stdout), but also gets duplicated out the bottom (to a file).