🛠️ Dotfiles – Personal Terminal Configuration for Development & HPC

This repository contains my personal dotfiles, managed with YADM. It includes shell customizations, aliases, and environment settings tailored for:

• Daily development on macOS
• High-performance computing on an SLURM HPC
• Reproducible configuration with Git

🔧 Core Components

Each component has a single responsibility, which makes debugging easier and encourages clean organization:

File	Purpose
.bashrc	Main entry point for interactive shells. Sources other components and handles machine-specific logic.
.bash_profile	Loaded for login shells; primarily used on macOS. Delegates to .bashrc to ensure consistent behavior.
.bash_prompt	Defines the command prompt, including color-coded Git status, time, and path.
.bash_aliases	Contains all command aliases. Divided by theme (navigation, git, SLURM, Anvi’o, etc.).
.bash_functions	Miscellaneous custom Bash functions to improve productivity.
.bash_welcome	Nice welcome message.

🚀 Quick Start

How to install on new system:

1. Install yadm

The git clone strategy is the most reliable

git clone https://github.com/TheLocehiliosan/yadm.git ~/.yadm-project
ln -s ~/.yadm-project/yadm ~/bin/yadm

2. Connect yadm to dotfiles rep

yadm clone https://github.com/mschecht/dotfiles.git -f

# double check
yadm status

🧪 Tips

• Use ys to check dotfile status
• Use yu to commit and push tracked changes (add -u, timestamp commit)
• Keep all config edits in modular files (.bash_aliases, .bash_utils, etc.)
• reload_rc to refresh shell config without restarting your terminal

🙌 Credits

Thanks to:

• @ekiefl and @FlorianTrigodet for inspiration and snippets
• yadm.io for making dotfile management sane