My personal dotfiles managed with GNU Stow and Nix-Darwin.

• Shell: Zsh with Starship prompt, syntax highlighting, and autosuggestions
• Editor: Neovim configuration
• Terminal: Tmux, Ghostty, WezTerm configurations
• Window Management: Aerospace, Hammerspoon, SKHD
• Status Bar: Sketchybar
• Package Management: Nix-Darwin for declarative macOS configuration
• Development Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and more

cd ~/dotfiles
stow .

First time setup from this checkout:

cd ~/dotfiles
./nix-darwin/setup.sh

The setup script installs Determinate Nix if nix is missing, rewrites the nix-darwin flake for the current user and host, then bootstraps darwin-rebuild from the flake.

After modifying flake.nix or home.nix:

cd ~/dotfiles/nix-darwin
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .

To update flake inputs first:

cd ~/dotfiles/nix-darwin
nix flake update
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .

If you see "cached failure" errors:

cd ~/dotfiles/nix-darwin
nix flake update
nix store gc  # Clear old builds
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .

After modifying .zshrc:

source ~/.zshrc

• nix-darwin/flake.nix - System packages and macOS settings
• nix-darwin/home.nix - User-specific home-manager configuration
• nix/nix.conf - Nix configuration

• zshrc/.zshrc - Zsh configuration with aliases and functions

• nvim/ - Neovim configuration
• tmux/ - Tmux configuration
• starship/ - Starship prompt configuration
• ghostty/ - Ghostty terminal configuration
• aerospace/ - Aerospace window manager
• sketchybar/ - Sketchybar status bar

• Git, GitHub CLI
• Docker, Docker Compose
• Neovim, Vim
• Go, Direnv

• kubectl, kubectx, helm
• AWS CLI, Google Cloud SDK, Azure CLI
• Terraform, Ansible, Packer, Vault

• PostgreSQL (psql), MySQL, Redis, MongoDB

• eza (modern ls), bat (modern cat), fd (modern find)
• fzf (fuzzy finder), ripgrep, zoxide
• jq, yq, wget, curl
• htop, btop

• nmap, ffuf, gobuster, ngrok

Managed declaratively in flake.nix:

• Dock: Auto-hide, no recent apps, 48px icons
• Finder: Show all extensions, hidden files, path bar, status bar
• Keyboard: Fast key repeat, no auto-correct
• Trackpad: Tap to click, three-finger drag
• Screenshots: Saved to ~/Pictures/screenshots as PNG
• Security: Touch ID for sudo enabled

# Search for packages
nix search nixpkgs <package-name>

# List installed packages
nix-env -q

# Update flake inputs
nix flake update ~/dotfiles/nix-darwin

# Navigation
l          # List files with eza
lt         # Tree view
fcd        # Fuzzy find directory and cd
fv         # Fuzzy find file and open in nvim

# Git shortcuts
gc         # git commit -m
gp         # git push origin HEAD
gst        # git status

# Kubernetes
k          # kubectl
kx         # kubectx
kns        # kubens

# Docker
dco        # docker compose
dps        # docker ps

# Utilities
C          # pbcopy (copy to clipboard)

If you encounter SSL errors, ensure the certificate path is set:

export NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE=/etc/nix/macos-keychain.crt

Restart the Nix daemon:

sudo launchctl kickstart -k system/systems.determinate.nix-daemon

Personal dotfiles - use at your own risk!