Damian ONeill

Breaking stuff since 72

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To make (re)-initialising a mac easier I’ve scripted a setup bashed on homebrew.

It supports

  • both zsh and bash, defaulting to zsh
  • sets up on-my-zsh
  • installs some useful shell tools: tmux, neovim, alacritty
  • installs more useful alternatives to: ls, cat, find, grep, etc.
  • installs a set of productivity tools useful for developers: asdf, git, jq, etc.
  • installs a suite of common GUI applications: dropbox, chrome, slack, visual-studio-code, etc.
  • installs a set of programming languages using asdf: java, go, node, python, etc.
  • installs some vscode extensions: ms-vscode-remote, etc.
  • creates a default configuration for alacritty if it doesnt exist.
  • finally, it dry runs topgrade to provide an indication whether your system is uptodate or not.

Have a look at the script contents here.

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