A tour of my dotfiles

Over the years, I've built up a collection of aliases, shell functions, and CLI tools that make my terminal feel like home. All of it lives in a single repository: my dotfiles. It's a backup of every terminal tool and configuration I rely on, and it means I can set up a brand new Mac from scratch in about five minutes. Colleagues at Spatie use it as a starting point for their own setups too. Let me walk you through what's in there. I'll cover the tools and tricks first, with installation and setup further down. What are dotfiles? Dotfiles are configuration files that typically live in your home directory and start with a dot: .zshrc, .gitconfig, .vimrc, and so on. They control how your terminal, shell, editor, and various command-line tools behave. The dot prefix makes them hidden by default on macOS and Linux, which is where the name comes from. The idea behind a dotfiles repository is simple. You put all those configuration files in a git repo, then symlink them to where they need…