Peter's Dotfiles

Tools and shortcuts I built for myself to automate manual work so I can focus on what matters.
These also help me to reduce the mental load of remembering and typing out commands.
No-one gets paid because they know by heart how to do connect to staging in a particular project.

Highlights

All the .sh files are loaded recursively.
The local folder keeps everything I want to keep private, like API keys, secrets, etc.

Terminal command palette

• cmd + shift + p: Open the command palette
• It is a fuzzy search for commands I defined globally and for the current folder
• Select a command then hit cmd + enter to paste it to the prompt and execute it

Shortcuts

# Open a Ruby, Rails, Elixir, or Phoenix console depending on the current folder
$ c

# Start docker, start the containers, offer an fzf list to select a container
# to connect to
$ con

# Git update - for feature branch workflow
# Update the current Git branch with changes from the upstream main branch
# It's best to work with the most recent version of the app

# Steps it follows:
# - Pulls the latest changes to my local main and feature branch
# - Deletes the merged branches
# - Runs an after hook if a folder specifies one
# (run bundle install, yarn install, migrate the DB, etc.)
$ gupd

# Git: Discard all changes
$ nah

# GitX: Open the current Git repository in SourceTree
# It works even if the Git folder is several levels up
$ gx

# Git amend: Add all changes to the last commit. Useful for TDD
$ gam

# Git rebase interactive all: Starts an interactive rebase for all the commits
# on the current branch
$ grbia

# Git undo: Removes the last commit without losing its changes
$ gu

Terminal prompt (Zsh)

• When in a Git repository:
  • Normal mode: "{top-level-directory} {git-branch}"
    • For example: "project_awesome main"
    • It also adds a ! after the branch name if there is any change
  • Stopping at a commit: "{top-level-directory} rebase-i > {target-sha} | {commit-subject}"
    • For example: "project_awesome rebase-i > 123456 | Fix Stripe webhook verification"
    • This lets me know which commit is problematic in case of a rebase conflict or which commit we stopped at during an interactive rebase
• When not in a Git repository:
  • "{top-level-directory}"

SourceTree custom actions

Fixup commit for the selected commit

In SourceTree: Right click on a commit > Custom Actions > Fixup. It will create a fixup commit for the selected commit using the files added to staging.

Create a new SourceTree custom action

• Menu caption: Fixup
• Script to run: ~/.dotfiles/git/sourcetree_custom_actions/create_fixup_commit.sh
• Parameters: $SHA

Amend all changes to the selected commit

In SourceTree: Right click on a commit > Custom Actions > Amend all. It will amend all the changes to the selected commit.

SourceTree custom action settings:

• Menu caption: Amend all
• Script to run: ~/.dotfiles/git/sourcetree_custom_actions/amend_all.sh
• Parameters: $SHA

Install

git clone git@github.com:nomadsherpa/dotfiles.git
mv ~/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
# Homebrew https://brew.sh
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

VS Code

Sync config

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vs_code/settings.json ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vs_code/keybindings.json ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vs_code/tasks.json ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/tasks.json
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vs_code/snippets/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/snippets

Make code command available in the terminal

Command Palette > shell command

iTerm2

Sync config

# Specify the preferences directory
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 PrefsCustomFolder -string "~/.dotfiles/iTerm/settings"

# Tell iTerm2 to use the custom preferences in the directory
defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 LoadPrefsFromCustomFolder -bool true

Turn off the login banner ("Last login ...")

touch ~/.hushlogin

Oh My ZSH

Install

https://ohmyz.sh/#install

Sync config

mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.old
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/zshrc.symlink ~/.zshrc

zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin

It has to be listed LAST in the plugins list in ~/.zshrc for it to be enabled.

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

Setup local secrets

touch $DOTFILES_PATH/local/localrc.sh

Git

Sync config

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/.gitconfig.global ~/.gitconfig

Signing commits with GPG

brew install gpg
ln -s $DROPBOX_PATH/backup/.dotfiles/.gnupg ~/.gnupg

Sourcetree

ln `brew --prefix gpg`/bin/gpg `brew --prefix gpg`/bin/gpg2

Sourcetree > Preferences > Advanced > set custom path for GPG Program to brew --prefix gpg/bin/gpg

Sourcetree > Repo settings > Security > Enable GPG signing

Sourcetree > commit > Commit options > Sign commit

asdf

Install

brew install asdf

Update

asdf plugin-update ruby

Ruby

Install

asdf plugin add ruby
asdf install ruby latest
asdf global ruby latest # set global ruby version

Initial Set-up

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/ruby/irbrc.symlink ~/.irbrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/ruby/gemrc.symlink ~/.gemrc

Install Rails and Bundler

gem install rails
gem install bundler

Other tools

brew install fzf
$(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install # To install key bindings to iTerm and fuzzy completion

# Local Sherpa
git clone git@github.com:nomadsherpa/local_sherpa.git ~/.dotfiles/lib/local_sherpa

VLC

mv -v ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc ~/.dotfiles/others/vlc/vlcrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/others/vlc/vlcrc ~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc

OSX Shortcuts

To check what we have:

defaults read -g NSUserKeyEquivalents

Merge All Windows shortcut for all apps (cmd + shift + m)

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Merge All Windows" -string '@$m'