Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

Originally forked from Holman's dotfiles, this setup has evolved to support my development workflow and homelab infrastructure. The configuration is topic-centric and includes integrated 1Password credential management for secure homelab operations.

Key features:

• Homelab Integration: Secure credential management for Proxmox infrastructure
• 1Password CLI: Seamless secret injection for development and operations
• Device Profiles: Automatic configuration based on hostname detection
• Modern Tooling: Support for Docker, Windsurf editor, and container orchestration

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

This configuration includes:

• Git: Enhanced aliases and completion
• Homebrew: Package management and dependencies
• Ruby/rbenv: Ruby development environment
• Vim: Lightweight editor configuration
• Zsh: Shell customization with modern prompt

• homelab/: Proxmox cluster configuration with 1Password integration
• docker/: Container orchestration configs (Traefik, Immich, Nextcloud, etc.)
• Device Profiles: Environment-specific configurations for macBook, drowzee (Proxmox node)

• Windsurf: AI-powered development environment integration

• 1Password CLI: Secure credential injection for all environments
• Environment Templates: Safe configuration management with secret references

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
• topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
• topic/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when you run script/install. To avoid being loaded automatically, its extension is .sh, not .zsh.
• topic/*.symlink: Any file ending in *.symlink gets symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/cartman61616/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

For homelab environments, initialize 1Password integration:

cd ~/.dotfiles/homelab
./scripts/setup-homelab-secrets.sh

The setup automatically detects your hostname and loads appropriate device profiles:

• macBook: Development machine configuration
• drowzee: Proxmox node configuration with homelab tools

dot is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane macOS defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

This is my personal dotfiles setup, so there's a good chance I may break something if I forget to make a check for a dependency or make changes specific to my environment.

If you're using this setup and run into any blockers, please open an issue on this repository.

I forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles for a couple years before the weight of my changes and tweaks inspired me to finally roll my own. But Ryan's dotfiles were an easy way to get into bash customization, and then to jump ship to zsh a bit later. A decent amount of the code in these dotfiles stem or are inspired from Ryan's original project.