Jeremy's dotfiles

The structure and many (most?) of the files in this repository are forked from Zach Holman's dotfiles. See his post on the subject.

Structure

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

Components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew to install.
• topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
• topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

Install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/jeremyfelt/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/dotfiles.

The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink, which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.

dot is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane OS X defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

reload! is included to re-source new aliases, etc...

Development Backup & Restore

Two scripts are provided to backup and restore the ~/Development directory:

backup-development

Creates timestamped tar archives of each project in ~/Development:

backup-development

Archives are saved to ~/Desktop/<timestamp>-Development/ with each project as a separate tar file.

restore-development-backup

Restores tar archives from a backup directory back to ~/Development:

restore-development-backup ~/Desktop/20250106-1234-Development

This extracts all .tar files from the specified directory into ~/Development.

Applications to install manually and other caveats.

App Store

• Bitwarden
• Harvest
• NepTunes
• Slack
• Sequel Ace

Download and install

• Firefox
• Raycast
• Claude
• Zed
• Code
  • After installation, open VS Code and use the command palette to install the shell command.
  • Install One Monokai theme: code --install-extension azemoh.one-monokai
  • Install intelephense: code --install-extension bmewburn.vscode-intelephense-client
    • Install WP Hooks: code --install-extension johnbillion.vscode-wordpress-hooks
    • Install PHP Debug: code --install-extension xdebug.php-debug
• Obsidian
• Chrome
• Cleanshot X

And then when you need them:

• Calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/download_osx
• Loom
• NordVPN
• Ollama
• Spotify
• Zoom

Environment setup

• valet install
• valet use php@8.4
• brew services start mariadb
• mysql (GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ...@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '...')
• Inside ~/Development directory, run valet park - subdirectories will now work
• Run valet secure inside one of the subdirectories and certificates will be installed.

Restore backups

• restore-db-local {backup-dir}
• restore-development-local {backup-dir}

Miscellany

• Xcode - I don't really understand the relationship between Xcode and the terminal, but strange stuff happens and then I find myself installing this.
  • I really thought xcode-select --install was supposed to take care of things, but it likely does cd /usrnot. /shrug
• zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list.
  • I was getting this toward the end of installation and when I ran compaudit was told that /usr/local/share/zsh was insecure.
  • I ran sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/zsh, which removed the group write permissions, and it stopped showing in compaudit.
  • Before doing that I had also tried sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions, but failed to check permissions or compaudit beforehand.
  • After restarting zsh, my auto completion issue (_complete:96: bad math expression: operand expected at end of string) was resolved as well.
• ls didn't work after a brew upgrade updated Python
  • zsh: /opt/homebrew/bin/grc: bad interpreter: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.10/bin/python3: no such file or directory
  • I ran brew uninstall grc and brew install grc and it worked.