Terminalify

Why?

• Seems simpler.
• Easier to clone the setup to different machines.
• Working in the terminal helps me stay more focused.

Artifacts

• My personal dotfiles

Possible spawns

• Basic approach to using GNU Stow for dotfiles
• Using Stow to dynamically source shell plugins

Log

2025.04.02

• Started going down the rabbit hole of configuring nvim. Got as far as installing lazy.nvim before I had to start doing actual work. I have some learning to do, but I think building up a reasonable config is the way to go. I'd add things as needed instead of having a bunch of stuff I never use.

2025.03.27

• Watched this video on setting up nvim. Doesn't look nearly as painful as expected.

2025.03.26

• Added Rust config. I like the idea of stowing shell scripts into $ZDOTDIR so they can be loaded on sourcing. For Rust, I added some env variables, automatically install rustup if it's not there, and setup completions for rustup and cargo. That way everything is installed correctly by just running stow rust and source $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc

2025.03.25

• Added a basic bootstrapping script. It installs brew and some core dependencies. It creates the XDG directories and ZDOTDIR. And then stows a couple of the core configs, namely zsh and tmux.

2025.03.20

• Just went ahead and installed deno through brew. I was using asdf to manage multiple versions before, but I'm not sure I want to go that route unless absolutely necessary. This GH issue may hint at a way to do this without a separate tool.
• Migrated git config.
• Migrated helix config.
• Tweaked fzf.
• Started using eza instead of ls and tree.

2025.03.19

• Migrated tmux config.
• Think I sorted out colors in terminal and tmux.
• Setup a brewfile to track installed dependencies. Will need to setup some aliases to brew bundle add [name] and brew bundle install, etc.

2025.03.18

• Got most of my zsh configuration done. Not entirely ready to cutover yet, but getting there. Or maybe I am, and I just need to start working in it to feel the pain to improve it.
• This was an interesting find. Apparently the git completions that ship with homebrew's version are inferior than those provided by default with zsh.

2025.03.17

• Started using zap to manage plugins. It's very simple. Downside is that git needs to be installed, but it probably will be anyway.

2025.03.12

• Made a few tweaks to .zshenv and moved it to a new dotfiles repo to facilitate managing them with stow.
• I'd like to be able to switch between configurations easily. Since I explicitly set $ZDOTDIR, my thought is that I can just create two and swap between them using that env var. If that doesn't work out for some reason, I also set $XDG_CONFIG_DIR. I suppose I could swap that instead.

2025.03.11

• Try using GNU stow for dotfiles. Seems the simplest.

2025.03.10

• I'm interested in trying out Neovim. Helix is cool, but it seems a bit bloated for me. And the plugin system is lagging. Neovim now has LSP support built-in, is built on Vim, has a super mature plugin system (lua seems great). I think it's worth a go.
• Need to yet again sort out my dotfiles. This may be a good pattern to copy.
• I'd also like to get off omz. This article may be helpful.

2025.03.07

• Had this thought after exploring Derek Sivers /uses page.