🏡 Home Config

Opinionated (my own) home configuration.

High-level Highlights

Tools

• Nix + Home Manager
• neovim + Lua
• starship
• tmux
• zsh

Commands

• reload: reload shell
• reno: update home

Getting Started

MacOS

1. Install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Install & Setup nix:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install)
mkdir -p ~/.config/nix

cat <<EOF >> ~/.config/nix/nix.conf
experimental-features = nix-command flakes
EOF

sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/org.nixos.nix-daemon

3. Setup env:

• First, generate an SSH key and add it to your GitHub account:

ssh-keygen -t rsa
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy

• Then, clone and symlink the .dotfiles repo:

mkdir -p ~/.config
mkdir ~/Projects
cd ~/Projects
git clone git@github.com:simplystuart/.dotfiles.git
ln -s ~/Projects/.dotfiles ~/.config/home-manager

• Finally, pull down large files via Git LFS:

cd ~/Projects/.dotfiles
brew install git-lfs
git lfs install --local
git lfs pull

4. Setup home-manager:

cd ~/.config/home-manager
nix run . switch

5. Install Rust

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

6. Install `tree-sitter-cli

cargo install --locked tree-sitter-cli

Inspirations

• 0 to LSP : Neovim RC From Scratch
• Tidying up your $HOME with Nix