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awesome-dotfiles
- bashrc inspiration - your favorit trick
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How do you configure your mac?
There are lots of good resources out there on the topic, such as GitHub's collection of tutorials and inspiration and the awesome-dotfiles repo with lots of resources.
- Editing Files through BASH Scripts
- Noob pre-install questions: Partition plan, swap space location, sizes, maximize ease of restoring
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is there a better way to symlink with stow?
If you dont like how stow organizes your files, you could try a different dot file manager. There are plenty to chose from
- I use git and rcm to save my dotfiles
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Using .bashrc / .profile that points to a gist
Create a dotfiles project on github to maintain your files.
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What's the best way to migrate from one DE to another?
Set up a dotfiles project and check it out in the VM.
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~/.dotfiles
You can find many tools on GitHub (or elsewhere) to bootstrap your Dotfiles. Some people choose to rely on Ansible, others on some tools you have to install. But how to install a tool that install the tools? Manual installation is not an option. It's like a chicken-egg problem.
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New Mac Coding/Dev Setup
You might want check out some of the more popular mac-specific dotfiles like those from mathiasbynens. Here is a good list of good repos. I must must admit that I have not yet gone this route (been meaning to), but one potential advantage is that you have multiple people working on / debugging a reproducible configuration.
homebrew-bundle
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How do you setup a new Mac?
I maintain a Brewfile (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle) which contains the majority of the non-project specific applications that I like to install on any new Mac:
https://github.com/jonahgeorge/dotfiles/tree/main
What's really nice is the `cask` & `mas` keywords allow you to install .dmg files & directly from the App Store.
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While its not included in there yet, I've been experimenting with maintaining a private Homebrew tap which contains my ~/bin directory as opposed to shell aliases.
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Pkgx – “Run Anything” from the creator of brew
> It's strange that people are so against declarative systems, or even file-based OS configuration. When I get my new Macbook I was up-and-running within a few minutes. I can't imagine maintaining a list of brews I need to re-install just to set up everything + my configs + everything else.
I haven’t had time to try Nix yet, but HomeBrew does have a declarative-ish workflow that I’ve been using for years:
[Brew Bundle](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle) let’s you have a plaintext file listing all packages you want installed on your system. Add a line for stuff you want installed, delete a line for stuff you want removed, invoke it the right way and it will install/remove packages until your system matches the list. The initial list can be generated by “brew bundle dump” or something like that.
For configuration, I find that a normal dotfile repo cloned into my ~/.config (with a script that maintains symlinks to config files in e.g. ~/Library) works well enough for my use.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?
Brew supports dumping installed things into a brewfile: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
I was using text files before as well to manage it.
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Show HN: Applite – Clean Homebrew front end app for macOS built with SwiftUI
Assuming everyone's on a Mac, I'm actually surprised there isn't that much use of something like homebrew-bundle[1]. It's definitely nicer to have your tooling run natively rather than, say, trying to wrap everything in Docker, or trying to get everybody on board with nix or guix.
I think the only real issue here is that you can't really pin to specific versions unless a formula exists, and there is no guarantee that a formula with a pinned version will stick around because homebrew likes to stay lean.
[1]https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/
- Brew Bundle
- The new Obsidian icon
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Which apps do you install first on any new Mac?
You should checkout Homebrew bundle and create a Brewfile instead. That will let you install both stuff from brew, casks and Mac AppStore apps in one go.
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macOS users: you can now install Active Trader Pro with Homebrew!
If you use brew bundle and create your own Brewfile, you can store this with your personal dot files and automate bootstrapping (auto-installing all your system tools) a new or recently reformatted Mac by including auto-trader-pro in your Brewfile.
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2 Days ago I made a comment saying I would quit photography before buying an Apple for photo editing. I'm sorry, be gentle
And if you're already loving Homebrew, definitely check out Homebrew Bundle!
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I was a MacOS hater until...
If you like homebrew, definitely give homebrew bundle a whirl if you haven't already
What are some alternatives?
xxh - 🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on.
linuxbrew-core - đź’€Formerly the core formulae for the Homebrew package manager on Linux
homesick - Your home directory is your castle. Don't leave your dotfiles behind.
FinderFix - FinderFix lets you resize and reposition Finder windows to your liking
ios-starter - Small template for iOS Xcode projects
PopClip-Extensions - Source code extensions in the official PopClip Extensions directory.
git - A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches.
homebrew-lilypond - Install LilyPond from homebrew/core instead of this tap: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lilypond
dotfiles - Dotfiles for configuring my terminal environment
mas - :package: Mac App Store command line interface
rbenv - Manage your app's Ruby environment
linearmouse - The mouse and trackpad utility for Mac.