my dotfiles 🦚

A home for my mac configuration.

This repository contains:

• a list of software I use
• globally installed composer packages
• my aliases for fish shell
• configuration for mackup
• adjusted list of sensible macOS defaults
• a maintenance script that updates installed packages
• an installation script to set up all the above on a new machine using dotbot

Usage: Setting up a new machine

Before the re-install

• Did I commit and push any changes/branches to my git repositories?
• Did I save all important documents from local directories?
• Did I backup all local databases?
• Did I update mackup to the latest version and ran mackup backup?

Installing a clean copy of macOS

1. Update macOS to the latest version
2. Turn on FileVault and Firewall (Stealth mode)
3. Install macOS Command Line Tools by running xcode-select --install
4. Install Homebrew by running /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
5. Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles
6. Sign into the Mac App Store and download Xcode
7. Accept the Xcode license agreement by running sudo xcodebuild -license accept
8. Run ./install to start the installation
9. Install AlDente from https://apphousekitchen.com/downloads/AlDente-Pro.dmg
10. Switch the default shell to fish
11. Restore preferences by running mackup restore
12. Run ./macos/.macos to apply "sensible macOS default" settings
13. Restart computer to finalize the process

Reading

• Hardening macOS
• macOS Security and Privacy Guide

Thanks 💙

• @medoai
• @driesvints
• @mathiasbynens