readme.md

Timm's dotfiles

In the great tradition of sharing dotfiles, this repository contains various configuration files for Unix and Linux software.

Feature highlights

• Automatic sync and installation of macOS preferences and the Dock.
• Automatic sync of installed items with brew, stew, pip, Docker images, VS Code extensions and apt.
• Automatic, rudimentary steam-tests with GitHub Actions.
• Automatic, scheduled update installation with brew and pip.
• Cross-OS (Linux, macOS) and cross-architecture (ARM, x64) compatibility.
• Developer and power-user brewfile with CPU-architecture- and OS-specific instructions.
• Fine-tuned configurations for kitty, newsboat, zsh, vim, git and Firefox.
• Git-native versioning, syncing and deployment of dotfiles.
• Installation with one command on Linux, macOS and devcontainers.
• Motto-of-the-day in the shell to show version info and git status.
• Tearless, Kernel-extension-free Hyper-key in macOS with Hammerspoon and launch-service.

Installation

macOS

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heussd/dotfiles/main/.install.sh | bash

Ubuntu

wget -O- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heussd/dotfiles/main/.install.sh | bash

devcontainer.json

"customizations": {
    "vscode": {
        "settings": {
            "dotfiles.repository": "https://github.com/heussd/dotfiles",
            "dotfiles.targetPath": "~/.dotfiles",
            "dotfiles.installCommand": ".install.sh",
        }
    }
}

Credits

This repository was inspired by many different sources. Here are the most relevant ones:

• Sneak's hacks on GitHub
• StreakyCobra on Hacker News