macOS Setup

Introducation

• Dotfiles are managed by chezmoi and Nix;
• Use Nix for packages & command line tools;
• Use Homebrew exclusively for casks (applications);
• Use just for automation (see Justfile).
• Sync application settings with mackup (see mackup.cfg).
  • Note:
    • mackup is not used for syncing dotfiles, mostly for private application settings (such as rclone, espanso and so on).
    • It is better to specify the application settings in the .mackup.cfg file (whitelist instead of blacklist).
• Use Garden for managing repositories

General setup

First we need to get command line tools, we can do that by installing Homebrew.

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

One-line install:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Beforerr/dotfiles/main/install.sh | bash

Note we need to restart the terminal after the installation of nix, so the script will fail on the first run as expected.

Apps

Karabiner-Elements

Customize keyboard mappings.

Zotero

Install beta version and login to sync.

Extensions

• windingwind/zotero-actions-tags - Customize your Zotero workflow.
  • [Share] Copy Zotero link · Discussion #115
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Browser

Extensions

• Surfingkeys settings - gistfile

Atuin

✨ Magical shell history

Setting up Sync

atuin register -u Beforerr -e [email protected]
atuin key
atuin login -u Beforerr

Languages

• Julia (via juliaup)
• Python (via mamba)
• R (via brew)
• Rust (via rustup)

Notes

• zsh - What should/shouldn't go in .zshenv, .zshrc, .zlogin, .zprofile, .zlogout? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• dockutil requires swift to be built from source which takes a long time, so it is not included in the configuration.