This is the core set of files that I clone on a new machine.

Used paulirish/dotfiles as a starting point (thank you!!). Once I pared down to only what I wanted, I looked through various other dotfiles to glean tidbits here and there. Notably, Remy Sharp's upgrades in 2018 were much needed.

• fork this to your own acct
• clone that repo
• read and run all files in the manual run section below, in that order

• .zshrc - oh-my-zsh configuration

.aliases  # one liner shortcuts
.functions  # larger helper methods
.extra  # anything custom, secret that should not be in repo

• setup-a-new-machine.sh - random apps i need installed
• symlink-setup.sh - sets up symlinks for all dotfiles and configs.
• .osx - run on a fresh osx setup
• brew.sh & brew-cask.sh - homebrew initialization

• .gitconfig

There will be items that don't belong to be committed to a git repo, because either 1) it shoudn't be the same across your machines or 2) it shouldn't be in a git repo. In there I have some EXPORTS, my PATH construction, and a few functions to enter projects.

Mathias's repo and/or Paul's are great starting points. I walked through each one, commented out ones that didn't interest me, ran it rebooted and then tweaked anything that I didn't like.

./.osx

One-off binaries that aren't via an npm global or homebrew.

• wifi-password
• git-overwritten

Once a month I do the following cleanup / security checks on my machine. Helps keep things lean and clean.

• Brew updates brew update && brew upgrade && brew cu && brew cleanup && brew cask cleanup && brew cleanup --prune-prefix && brew doctor - make sure that the brew cu is run in Terminal, in case it upgrades iTerm2!
• Docker cleanup

docker rmi $(docker images --filter "dangling=true" -q --no-trunc)
docker rmi $(docker images | grep "none" | awk '/ / { print $3 }')

• Open App Store, check/install updates
• Open Adobe, check/install updates
• Use Clean My Mac
• Use Lockdown
• Use MalwareBytes
• Use Carbon Copy Cloner, backup HD