Dotfiles

Use at your own risk.

The dotfiles needs aid of Devbox to isolate development environment and to reduce onboarding time.

• Devbox leverages Nixpkgs as package collection.
  • Native Nix is not intuitive for me and it requires too much configuration.

The dotfiles do not specify a desktop environment and window manager becuase none is compatible with all operating systems (WSL, Mac OS, Linux, BSD).

For the same reason, the dotfiles do not specify a terminal emulator.

Installation

Check Git is set up on your machine before installation.

Run bootstrap first.

# Install `bash` and `bash-completion`.

# Install Devbox.
curl -fsSL https://get.jetify.com/devbox | bash

# Make shell to use global profile.
echo 'eval "$(devbox global shellenv --init-hook)"' < ~/.bashrc

# Pull global config.
#
# WARN: existing global profile on local will be removed.
devbox global pull <repo>

The dotfiles is located on $DEVBOX_PROJECT_ROOT.

Add the scripts to bashrc for using the dotfiles.

eval "$(devbox global shellenv --init-hook)"

. $DEVBOX_PROJECT_ROOT/.config/bash_completion

Update dotfiles

Run devbox global push <repo> to update the dotfiles same as local.

Packages

Version control system

• git

SSH client

• openssh
  • dropbear could be a good replacement but I do not prefer it due to lack of some OpenSSH compatibility.

Security token

• YubiKey: List of known vendors and products
  • yubikey-manager
  • yubico-piv-tool

Text processor

• ripgrep: grep in parallel
• jq
• yq
• biome: an replacement of prettier (Differences with Prettier)

Pager

• delta

Language support

• Ctags
  • universal-ctags
• Shell scripts
  • shellcheck
• C/C++/Obj-C
  • clang
• Node.js
  • nodejs: for running LSP server
• Go
  • go_1_24
  • gopls
  • goimports-reviser
• Rust
  • rustc
  • cargo
  • rust-analyzer
• Solidity
  • foundry
  • solc-select
• Cross compile
  • llvm
  • lld
  • clang-tools

Terminal multiplexer

• tmux

Text editor

• neovim
  • helix could be a good replacement but I do not prefer it due to lack of plugin system.

Process viewer

• htop
  • htop can replace pstree by using tree view (press F5 key).
  • For more process details, use ps.

File manager

• None (use Netrw in nvim)

Periodic monitoring

• viddy
  • Use viddy to support paging and time machine mode.
  • For tracking file changes in real-time, use less +F or tail -f.

Communication protocol

• websocat
• grpcurl

Parallel gzip (de)compression

• pigz