Jake's Dotfiles

Personal dotfiles managed with chezmoi. Designed for a full macOS development environment and lightweight VS Code Devcontainers.

🚀 Quick Start

To set up a new machine (macOS or Linux):

sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply jakemack

This will install chezmoi, clone this repo, prompt for your git identity, and apply your configurations.

✨ Features

• Cross-Platform: One configuration for macOS and Linux (Devcontainers).
• macOS Automation: Automatically installs Homebrew, bundles apps via Brewfile, and sets macOS system defaults.
• Devcontainer Ready: Includes an install.sh for VS Code to instantly configure your shell in remote containers.
• Modular Zsh: Cleanly separated aliases, functions, and Oh My Zsh customizations.
• Safe & Private: Uses templates for sensitive identity data (name/email) and supports a non-tracked ~/.localrc for secrets.

📂 Structure

• dot_local/bin/: Custom scripts added to $PATH.
• dot_zsh/aliases/: Modular shell aliases.
• dot_zsh/functions/: Autoloaded Zsh functions.
• dot_zsh_custom/: Custom themes and plugins for Oh My Zsh.
• dot_config/: XDG-compliant application configurations (e.g., Ghostty).
• run_onchange_macos-setup.sh.tmpl: Automated macOS provisioning (Brew, system defaults).
• archive_go_manager/: Legacy Go-based dotfile manager (for reference).

🛠️ Usage

Applying Changes

After making changes to files in your home directory, tell chezmoi to track them:

chezmoi add ~/.zshrc

To apply changes from the repository to your machine:

chezmoi apply

Devcontainers

VS Code will automatically detect the install.sh in the root of this repository. When you open a project in a Devcontainer, it will run:

./install.sh

This quickly sets up your Zsh environment without installing heavy macOS dependencies.

Local Customization

Create a ~/.localrc file for machine-specific environment variables or secrets. This file is sourced by .zshrc but is not tracked by git.

📜 Credits

Originally inspired by Zach Holman's dotfiles.