Dotfiles for Grendel Consulting

Configuration and settings to rapidly bootstrap a new machine using Chezmoi

We're using ZSH with Oh My Zsh for plugins and Antigen for plugin management. Applications, tools and utiliies rely on Homebrew for package management.

Our shell is Starship, running in iTerm2 and Visual Studio Code terminals, with a fallback setup for macOS Terminal running bash. We're using modern alternatives to cd, cat and ls.

Of course, secrets stay in 1Password, which also handles SSH key management and commit signing.

Usage

Prerequisites

With an existing setup, back everything up first. You will need XCode command-line tools and Homebrew, see below.

Installation

1. Install the prerequisites and brew install chezmoi then chezmoi init grendel-consulting, either manually or with the .bootstrap.sh script
2. Preview with chezmoi diff
3. Apply with chezmoi apply

Optionally, run the following one-liner:

sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply grendel-consulting

Manual Steps

Everything not handled by Chezmoi is manual; some existing todos:

• Adopt sensible macOS privacy, productivity and security defaults
• Adopt secret versioning and hashes, coupled with tagging to telegraph
• Extract other configuration, i.e. for Flux, Ice, Rectangle, iTerm2, VS Code, Chrome, Sublime
• Adopt and configure atuin and direnv

You will need to sign in to various tools for their own inbuilt syncing to happen: 1Password, vscode

You may need to launch tools first time to configure launch on startup and checking for updates

You may need to explicitly grant permissions to various tools: Flux, Ice, Rectangle

You may opt to install the Kolide Launcher agent

Maintenance

Regular maintenance tasks should be handled through scripts here too.