tag:Dotfiles

My original plan for this article was to discuss my shell and how I configure it. But I have made some significant changes, to how I structure my Nix configuration and I wanted to go over Why I did that. I mean, likely this will probably happen a lot, as my configuration changes more often than it should 🙈. Anyway, into the main topic. My dotfiles Snowfall what? I recently ported my Nix configuration (dotfiles), to use the snowfall-lib to structure my Nix config. ...

In this post, we will just go over the basics of how we can configure our setup using a git repo, nix flakes and home-manager. I will go over how I structured my nix config. Not an in-depth tutorial Note this will not be an in-depth guide into NixOS/Home Manager itself. That could well be a series on its own. We will just go over the main ways I configure NixOS/Nix and why I do it the way I do. I recommend doing some reading and playing around and figuring out what works for you 😄 Introduction We will be using two different ways to configure our system, NixOS via a configuration.nix to configure the machine itself. Which includes partitions, backups, docker anything that needs to be run system-wide. Anything that needs “sudo” permissions is configured via this expression. Note we will of course split our nix expressions into smaller modules. That will be re-used between multiple hosts. ...

Introduction Dev Machine My main machine for development at the moment is a 12th Generation Intel Framework Laptop. This series has been inspired by Dev Workflow Intro by Josh Medeski. In this series of posts, I will go over how I have set up my developer workflow and explain why I have made certain decisions and why I use certain tools. This series aim to make it less daunting for you to start your journey on improving your developer workflow. Or share with you tools that you made not have heard of. Most of the tools I used I discovered in videos/blogs talking about developer workflows. ...

My latest iteration of my dotfiles, where I am now using a Laptop as my main development machine (Framework). I’m also using Hyprland as my window manager. Most importantly using NixOS and home-manager to declaratively define the state of my machine i.e. what packages to install, dotfiles. CURRENTLY A WIP 🏠 My dotfiles repo, setup using nixos/home-manager Install 🔥 I wouldn’t recommend just blinding using my dotfiles. They are setup for my specific use-case. I think you’re off using this repo as reference to create your own dotfiles. ...

Introduction In this post I will show you how you can setup tmux (plugins) using the nix package manager, specifically using home-manager. I will also show you how you can avoid an issue I encountered where tmux resurrect wasn’t working properly due to plugin ordering. Typically we use the tmux plugin manager to manage our tmux plugins. However, when I moved to NixOS, I wanted to move away from having lots of different ways of managing what is on my system. For example, on my Arch Linux machine I had: ...

I know I recently made a post about my dotfiles but I’ve made a few changes since then, so here are my updated dotfiles. out of date These dotfiles are out of date check out my updated ones here System Overview OS: Arch Linux DE: Gnome Shell: Fish Prompt: Starship Terminal: Alacritty Editor: Neovim (using LazyVim config) Colorscheme: Catppuccin for EVERYTHING!!! Fonts: Mono Lisa Extensions I use the following Gnome extension. You can find the config for the extensions in this massive file here. ...

Workflows Change This post is accurate as of date of publish. But likely will go stale, if I update my workflows I will likely publish another post. In this blog post, I will go over my current development workflow using the above tools namely, fish shell tmux and neovim. I’ll be using the dotfiles found here. I aim to move away from using my mouse as much as possible as it just slows me down when my hands are away from my keyboard. ...

This post is a quick introduction to dotfiles, accurate as of 25th of April 2023. out of date These dotfiles are out of date check out my updated ones here Dotfiles 🏠 My dotfiles setup using Dotbot. Install 🔥 I wouldn’t recommend just blinding using my dotfiles. They are setup for my specific use-case. I think you’re better picking and choosing what you like 😄. git clone [email protected]:hmajid2301/dotfiles.git cd dotfiles make install profile=arch System Overview ...

Devcontainers This article assumes you are already familiar with dev containers. You can read more about devcontainers here. In this article, we will go over how you can personalise your dev containers. Devcontainers allow us to create consistent development environments. One of the main advantages of dev containers is we can provide a “one button” setup for new developers. We do this by using a container (Docker), and we end up developing inside a container. Much like if we used docker exec -it ubuntu /bin/bash. Except it provides a few nice conveniences such as copying (into the container) over the project files and our ssh keys. ...

Previous article This article assumes you are familiar with dotfiles and Dobot. If you want to know more about Dotbot click here In this article I will show you how you can use Dotbot plugins. We can use Dotbot plugins to run new directives such as apt. So we can use the apt package manager, so install packages. Tip One useful use case is when we setup on a new system we may want to make we have some packages installed like vim or make. We can automate some of this with Dotbot and its plugins. ...

Previous article This article assumes you are familiar with dotfiles and Dobot. If you want to know more about Dotbot click here If you are like me you have devices, such as personal desktop and a work laptop. These devices share some dotfiles but also have specific program and applications. For example: Personal Desktop: Linux Work Laptop: Windows (WSL) On Linux I use alacritty and in Windows I use Windows terminal I could copy all my dotfiles over and not worry about which programs exist on which systems. ...

If you’re like me you find yourself moving between multiple systems. Whether that be between my personal desktop and my work laptop or distro hopping on Linux. See relevant meme below: What are dotfiles? Many tools/program store their configuration files as files on your machine. On Linux you will often find these in ~/.config directory. Some common examples of dotfiles: - .vimrc - .bashrc - .gitconfig I wanted to find an easy way to manage my dotfiles and share them between mutiple systems. I also wanted a easy way to install software/tools I used between my systems. Introducing DotBot, a tool that provides an easy way to manage our dotfiles using VCS (git). ...