my dotfiles 🦚

A home for my mac configuration.

This repository contains:

a list of software I use
globally installed composer packages
my aliases for fish shell
configuration for mackup
adjusted list of sensible macOS defaults
a maintenance script that updates installed packages
an installation script to set up all the above on a new machine using dotbot

Usage: Setting up a new machine

Before the re-install

Did I commit and push any changes/branches to my git repositories?
Did I save all important documents from local directories?
Did I backup all local databases?
Did I update mackup to the latest version and ran mackup backup?

Installing a clean copy of macOS

Update macOS to the latest version
Turn on FileVault and Firewall (Stealth mode)
Install macOS Command Line Tools by running xcode-select --install
Install Homebrew by running /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles
Sign into the Mac App Store and download Xcode
Accept the Xcode license agreement by running sudo xcodebuild -license accept
Run ./install to start the installation
Install AlDente from https://apphousekitchen.com/downloads/AlDente-Pro.dmg
Switch the default shell to fish
Restore preferences by running mackup restore
Run ./macos/.macos to apply "sensible macOS default" settings
Restart computer to finalize the process

Reading

Thanks 💙