Dotfiles by Alex Palcuie

Hacking like a geek:

• the playbooks folder contains Ansible that provisions a machine with apps and configs
• the launch script auto-detects OS and runs the appropriate playbook
• Shell preferences:
  • Mac: Zsh with Zinit plugin manager (syntax highlighting, autosuggestions, z jumping)
  • Ubuntu/Debian: Fish (primary shell)
• my main machine is a Mac, I have a work dev Debian machine, and my server is running Ubuntu
• Neovim as primary editor (aliased to vim)
• Modern CLI tools: bat (better cat), eza (better ls), fd (better find), rg (better grep)

Setup for a new Mac machine

1. Install XCode tools using xcode-select --install
2. Install Brew
3. Install Ansible using Brew brew install ansible
4. As a convention ~/dotfiles should be this repo

git clone https://github.com/palcu/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles

5. Install XQuartz
6. Run the Ansible playbook for Mac

./launch

Setup for a new Linux machine

We need a version of Ansible greater than 2.0.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible software-properties-common git
git clone https://github.com/palcu/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./launch

Sources of inspiration

Thank you for all the people who've published their useful configs.

• http://dotfiles.github.io
• https://github.com/holman/dotfiles
• https://github.com/mgax/dotfiles
• https://github.com/razvand/snippets
• https://github.com/pivotal/vim-config
• https://github.com/pivotal/dotfiles