Base environment setup

This are the base config files and settings I use on my work and personal machines.

If you use Dropbox, it's also a nice way to keep all of your things in sync. iTerm 2 works well with config file syncing over Dropbox. Just symlink the files as instructed below and you should be good to go.

Key features

• VIM everywhere (NeoVim obviously, VS Code, Fish shell, Safari)
• GPG through Keybase
• Good typography
• OS X light/dark theme respected in VS Code, iTerm, bat, delta
• TBC

Here's how my editor looks like:

Here's how my terminal looks like:

Antialiasing

In MacOS Monterey when using a large external non-HiDPI screen, the anti-aliasing is too strong and results in blurry text. To rectify, reduce the anti-aliasing to 1 with:

defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

A reboot is required for the setting to take effect.

The Dock

Remove the annoying delay with Dock auto-hiding:

defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0; killall Dock

Reduce animations

To make things appear snappier, remove unnecessary animations:

defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0

Screenshot location

I like to keep my Desktop clean, so let's change the default location where screenshots are saved to iCloud Drive:

mkdir -p ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Screenshots
ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com\~apple\~CloudDocs/Screenshots/ ~/Screenshots
$ defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Screenshots && killall SystemUIServer

Install packages

Install homebrew first

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

Install packages

brew install fish
brew install git-delta
brew install bat
brew install autojump
brew install git
brew install wget
brew install neovim
brew install imagemagick
brew install the_silver_searcher
brew install fd
brew install rbenv
brew install rbenv-gemset
brew install nodenv
brew install yarn
brew install postgresql
brew install redis
brew install ffmpeg
brew install nmap
brew install fzf
brew install tree
brew install nnn
brew install geckodriver
brew install jesseduffield/lazygit/lazygit
brew install diff-so-fancy

# GPG
brew install gpg
brew install pinentry-mac

# Heroku has its own tap
brew tap heroku/brew && brew install heroku

Install the Fish shell

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish/master/bin/install | fish
sudo echo /usr/local/bin/fish >> /etc/shells
chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish
omf install rbenv
omf install nodenv
omf install bobthefish
omf install https://github.com/mihar/fzf

Install OS X apps

brew install --cask visual-studio-code # Primary code editor
brew install --cask fork # Visual Git client
brew install --cask brave-browser # Privacy centric fork of Chrome with built-in Tor
brew install --cask firefox # Standards based browser good for full feature specs
brew install --cask slack # New age IRC
brew install --cask telegram # Privacy focused IM
brew install --cask spotify # Tunes
brew install --cask iterm2 # Fully featured terminal emulator for OS X
brew install --cask docker # Containerization for dependencies and production simulation
brew install --cask paw # Powerful API inspector and explorer
brew install --cask rectangle # Window resizing with keyboard
brew install --cask istat-menus # System monitoring tooling in OS X menu bar
brew install --cask alfred # Replacement for the default spotlight Cmd+Space
brew install --cask keybase # GPG social network

# Sonos
brew tap homebrew/cask-drivers
brew install --cask sonos # Sound system if you have Sonos speakers

SSH

Create a new key if you need it:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

GPG

Let's setup GPG for commit signing and other shenanigans.

Keybase

Keybase is a great way to start using GPG, they'll generate your keys and host them for you.

If you don't yet have an account, go to https://keybase.io and create it.

Then login on your computer and the keybase id command should output your data.

/Applications/Keybase.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/keybase login
/Applications/Keybase.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/keybase id

Making Keybase behave

Keybase by default installs a lot of crap you probably don't need. A slow JS-based UI, Fuse encrypted networking, chats, etc.

The following will trim all the fat and leave the good: CLI.

/Applications/Keybase.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/keybase install -c cli
keybase ctl stop
keybase uninstall -c fuse
keybase uninstall -c helper
keybase uninstall -c kbfs
keybase uninstall -c service
keybase uninstall -c updater
sudo pkill -TERM keybase.Helper
sudo rm -f /Library/LaunchDaemons/keybase.Helper.plist
sudo rm -f /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/keybase.Helper

An essential step is also aliasing the keybase command to keybase --standalone, which will stop complaining about the agent not running in the background.

This is accomplished in the aliases.fish file, so you don't need to do it.

As a final step, let's make Keybase use the pinentry-mac so our passwords can be securely stored in the OS X Keychain.

keybase config set pinentry.path /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac

If you don't have a GPG key yet

Let's create a new key on Keybase specifically for use in GPG on our computer.

keybase pgp gen --multi

If you have a GPG key already

If you have your key on another machine, you can run keybase pgp export to see all the available keys to you. Otherwise skip to the [Importing existing GPG key].

$ keybase pgp export
# ▶ WARNING Found several matches:
# user: Miha Rebernik <[email protected]>
# 4096-bit RSA key, ID 6B997648324AF29E, created 2019-08-19

Now export it with (it'll ask you for a password with which to encrypt it, you should add it):

keybase pgp export -q 6B997648324AF29E -s > pgp_key

Now get your pgp_key file to the new machine where you're setting GPG up.

Importing existing GPG key

Run this command to import the private key into Keybase first, and then into GPG.

This will first ask you for the password you used to encrypt this key, so it can decrypt it and import it. Then it will also ask you for a password with which to securely store the key on your machine. This password will be needed every time you try to use this key to sign or decrypt something (it will later be handled transparently by pinentry-mac).

keybase pgp import -i pgp_key
keybase pgp export -q 6B997648324AF29E --secret | gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import

Setting GPG and Git

Now we'll list available keys and set the default key for Git

$ gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
# /Users/mihar/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
# -------------------------------
# sec   rsa4096/6B997648324AF29E 2019-08-19 [SC] [expires: 2035-08-15]
# uid                 [ unknown] Miha Rebernik <[email protected]>
# ssb   rsa4096/BB08A4DB17E7EC97 2019-08-19 [E] [expires: 2035-08-15]

$ git config --global user.signingkey 6B997648324AF29E
$ git config --global commit.gpgsign true

If you need to add the key to Github or anywhere else, you can use this command:

keybase pgp export -q 6B997648324AF29E | pbcopy

Now link the config files in this repo:

ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/gpg.conf ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/gpg-agent.conf ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

And restart the GPG agent:

gpgconf --kill gpg-agent

Testing GPG

Test everything works as needed by doing:

echo "testing GPG" | gpg --clearsign

You should see no errors and a plaintest message you've inputted along with a signature.

Safari extensions

• 1Blocker for tracker and ad blocking
• 1Password for password management
• Dark Reader for night
• Stop the Madness to prevent annoying JavaScript
• sVim for Vim-like navigation

sVim configuration

For sVimrc load the gist 5341a0a533f7af55af598209e980efa2. For sVimcss load the gist 842ac422e7ead649f9a946cdd2e12bde.

dotfiles

cd ~
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/gemrc .gemrc
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/gitconfig .gitconfig
mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/init.vim ~/.config/nvim/init.vim
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/inputrc .inputrc
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/npmrc .npmrc
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/sshconfig ~/.ssh/config
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/gpg.conf ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/gpg-agent.conf ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

Fish

cd ~
mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/conf.d
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/fish/aliases.fish ~/.config/fish/conf.d/aliases.fish
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/fish/config.fish ~/.config/fish/conf.d/config.fish

Bash

cd ~
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/bash/bash_profile .bash_profile
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/home/bash/bashrc .bashrc

VS Code

I use VS Code as my editor.

Since I use Vim mode in VS Code, one handy setting is also turning off letter accent suggestings on pressing, which makes it possible to hold h, j, k, l and others and it'll repeat the motion.

defaults write com.microsoft.VSCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

NeoVim

Lets link nvim to vim for less hassle:

ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/nvim /opt/homebrew/bin/vim

Now install vim-plug:

mkdir -p ~/.config/nvim/autoload
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim > ~/.config/nvim/autoload/plug.vim
vim +PlugInstall +qall

Some of the plugins that you get:

• spacegray color scheme
• fzf
• ack
• fugitive
• ruby
• javascript

Install all software updates

softwareupdate -i -a

iTerm 2

iTerm has a nice convenient way of overriding which directory houses your settings.

Then we need to link the theme change script to it's AutoLaunch directory.

mkdir -p ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/iTerm2/Scripts/AutoLaunch
ln -s ~/Code/dotenv/iterm2/theme_switch.py ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/iTerm2/Scripts/AutoLaunch/theme_switch.py

Font

For my editor and terminal I use Fira Code, a finely crafted monospaced font that has ligatures and other features like powerline, to power the terminal drawings. In the past I used Meslo, a modified version of Apple's Menlo.

The font files can be downloaded from GitHub here:

• Fira Code
• Meslo
• Meslo Nerd patched