If you're looking for the Nix-based system configuration, you want ascander/dots

This is a Nix-free version of my personal development environment for macOS machines. This includes:

• Homebrew for applications, packages, fonts, etc.
• Configuration for the tools I use (symlinked by rcm) including:
  • Alacritty
  • Tmux
  • Karabiner Elements
  • ZSH

Do the following to set up a new macOS machine:

1. Generate SSH keys

2. Run the bootstrap script

   ./bin/bootstrap.sh

3. Install packages from the Brewfile

   brew bundle --file ./Brewfile

4. Install rcm configuration file

   rcup -d . rcrc

5. Install dotfiles

   rcup

6. Set up macOS defaults

   ./bin/defaults.sh

I'm trying out LazyVim as an editor instead of a Nix-based configuration. You can find it at ascander/nvim

I've included a number of Alacritty themes in config/alacritty/themes as well as a theme switcher script in bin/switchtheme.sh. You can switch to eg. nightfox as follows:

./bin/switchtheme.sh nightfox

Setting up GPG for signed commits to Github requires Homebrew dependencies to be installed, viz. gnupg and pinentry-mac. I currently set this up manually, following this gist.

My convention for local configuration (ie., packages and/or configuration you need on a work computer) is to use file(s) ending in .local including:

• Brewfile.local for Homebrew packages
• zshrc.local for ZSH settings/env/etc.

If you want to define a mapping in Karabiner to do different things based on whether the key is pressed alone or with another key, use this structure:

{
  "from": {
    "key_code": "caps_lock",
    "modifiers": {
      "optional": [
        "any"
      ]
    }
  },
  "to": [
    {
      "key_code": "left_control"
    }
  ],
  "to_if_alone": [
    {
      "key_code": "escape"
    }
  ],
  "type": "basic"
}

Using to_when_held_down instead of to results in having to tweak delay thresholds to tune when eg. Esc is sent vs. Ctrl, and I haven't been able to get it just right for how I type.