politician / dotfiles

My dotfiles, managed by chezmoi

My .files

My dotfiles, managed by chezmoi.

If you want to fork it for your own usage

Setup a new mac

1. Install command line tools

   xcode-select --install

2. Insert Smart Card (Yubikey, Ledger, etc.)

3. Install Homebrew, GPG, Chezmoi and launch configuration

   # Install Homebrew
   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
   [[ $(arch) == "arm64" ]] && eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" || eval "$(/usr/local/bin/brew shellenv)"
   
   # Install GPG and Chezmoi
   brew install gpg chezmoi
   
   # Use configuration from this repo
   chezmoi init politician --apply

4. My personal todo list of manual actions:

   • This script will open, Alfred, Moom, Docker Desktop. You must manually grant them the needed permissions and enable start at boot
   • Grant Full disk access to Alfred and Terminal
   • Reboot sudo shutdown -r now
   • Connect to Firefox sync or copy profile folder (open about:profiles)
   • Install Xcode mas install 497799835 (was removed from this script because the 12GB+ download can be slow as hell)

Pull and apply latest changes from this repo

chezmoi update

Edit files and push changes

For example, modify ~/.vimrc (already managed by chezmoi)

chezmoi edit ~/.vimrc

Apply changes

chezmoi apply

Commit changes

chezmoi git add .
chezmoi git commit
chezmoi git push

Before formatting a mac

Make sure all files are up to date with chezmoi

cd ~

# Export list of brew/cask/mas installed packages
brew bundle dump --force

# Re-add linked files
chezmoi re-add

# Re-add VSCode settings as multi-arch template
sed 's|'"$(brew --prefix)"'|{{ if eq .chezmoi.arch "arm64" }}/opt/homebrew{{ else }}/usr/local{{ end }}|' ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json > $(chezmoi source-path)/private_Library/private_Application\ Support/private_Code/User/settings.json.tmpl

Review changes and commit

chezmoi git status

chezmoi git add .
chezmoi git commit
chezmoi git push

Applications

This repo includes scripts to install as well as build all the apps that need to be.

I try to choose OSS apps over commercial ones unless the experience is too degraded or it prevents me from doing my work properly.

Here are the most notable ones:

OSS/ Free Alternative	Proprietary/Commercial
NX Studio	Lightroom
Gimp & Krita	Photoshop
Inkscape	Illustrator
Jitsi Meet	Zoom
Kdenlive (No m1 support) - Now using iMovie and evaluating OpenShot, Shotcut	Premiere
OnlyOffice (I have an Office subscription)	Office
Penpot	Figma
DBeaver	Navicat

Mac OS configuration

This repo includes a script to configure my Mac OS and several applications settings.

Forking

If you want to fork this repo and modify it for your own personal/commercial usage, please do so freely, it is licensed accordingly (MIT).

Before you apply any settings, don't forget to:

• Customize chezmoi settings
• Remove my encrypted files and eventually re-add your own. See which files are encrypted with find $(chezmoi source-path) -type f -name "encrypted*.asc"