Alex's dotfiles

To get familiar with the concept, read this introduction from GitHub. There are many dotfiles repos out there, mathiasbynens/dotfiles is a good example.

Prerequisites

First, install Homebrew and follow brew doctor's instructions (install XCode command line tools,..).

Then clone this repo:

git clone --bare git@github.com:alexeyshockov/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME checkout

Default shell

Fish is currently my login shell of choice. It's important to install/set if first, before installing other deps, so Homebrew installs completions for the right shell.

brew install bash fish
# And change the default shell
sudo sh -c 'echo /opt/homebrew/bin/bash >> /etc/shells'
sudo sh -c 'echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish >> /etc/shells'
chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

Homebrew apps

Restore everything using bundle (see ~/Brewfile):

brew bundle

MacOS (various system settings)

Install this custom RU/EN keyboard layout.

Enable Touch ID support for sudo: just add the line below to /etc/pam.d/sudo.

auth    sufficient    pam_tid.so

General keyboard shortcuts

• Disable Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts > Show help menu
• Enable Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control > Mission Control > Switch to Desktop 1 (and so on)

Choosy (browser selection) rules

Just link the ruleset to ~/Library/Application Support/Choosy/behaviours.plist (import/export is not implemented at the moment, unfortunately).

Spotlight and Raycast

Exclude directories from Spotlight & Finder search

Siri & Spotlight > Spotlight Privacy > ...

Replace Spotlight with Raycast

Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Spotlight > ... Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Input Sources > ... (disable, to just use Caps Lock)

See more: https://manual.raycast.com/hotkey

iTerm2 Ghostty

Touch ID for remote sudo

In the ~/.ssh/config for the server:

Host ...
    ForwardAgent yes

And on the server itself:

sudo apt install libpam-ssh-agent-auth
sudo echo "Defaults env_keep += SSH_AUTH_SOCK" > /etc/sudoers.d/ssh-agent

• add auth sufficient pam_ssh_agent_auth.so file=~/.ssh/authorized_keys to /etc/pam.d/sudo

Editors and IDEs

Sublime Text Zed

Install Package Control, after that all the packages should be synched automatically...

To make it the default editor:

duti -s dev.zed.Zed public.plain-text all

Docker (Lima/Colima)

limactl start --name=default ~/lima-default.yaml

limactl start --name=docker ~/lima-docker.yaml
docker context create lima-docker --docker "host=unix://.../sock/docker.sock"
docker context use lima-docker

BuildKit

docker buildx create --name uno --node local --driver=docker-container --bootstrap --use lima-docker

AI tools

Aider

uv tool install --python python3.12 aider-chat@latest --with "google-cloud-aiplatform"

Programming languages

Rust

Install Rust dev tools by using:

rustup-init

PHP

To link additional (local) configuration:

ln -s ~/.config/php.ini $(php --ini | grep "Scan for additional .ini files in" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//')/local.ini

Install global apps:

composer g install

(C extensions should be installed manually using PECL, see php-pecl-requirements.txt).