• Run ruby install.rb to get all your apps and tools installed
  • The installation is idempotent, you can run it multiple times and you should be in the same state
• Everything under ~/dotfiles/load/ gets loaded into your terminal
  • /load/path.sh is loaded first
  • zsh automcompletion suggestions are only inside ~/dotfiles/autocompletion
• All files under work-encrypted/ will be encrypted
• Run ruby scripts/backup.rb to save all changes (includes Gems, Brewfile, Xcode UserData, and VS Code extensions)
  • Xcode: backs up ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/ into backups/Xcode/; only UserData/ (CodeSnippets, FontAndColorThemes, KeyBindings) and Templates are tracked in git — generated files are gitignored
  • VS Code: extensions are saved to backups/vscode/extensions.txt; settings must be synced manually via the Settings Sync extension

• macOS
• ruby
• Clone the repo and run ruby install.rb
• Setup iTerm by setting the theme (CMD+I, Colors tab, Load Presets, Import) and configuration (Profiles, Other Actions, Import JSON Profiles, select iterm/AndreaCipriani.json)
• Setup Visual Studio Code by syncing with account
• Setup Alfred

• Backup
  • Visual Studio Code settings: manual — use Settings Sync extension → https://gist.github.com/andreacipriani/1ba00e8f9773857f46eae2845f8e9ac8
  • Alfred preferences: manual, no automation possible

Initially inspired by @holman dotfiles. I diverged from it because I wanted to keep it simple, understand everything and heavily depend on ohmzsh.