🏠 Vegard's dotfiles

Nice! You want to give these dotfiles a try! You may want to first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don't want or need. Don't blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Your mileage may vary. 🚀

What's inside

• Fish shell as the primary shell, with Starship prompt, custom aliases, and completions
• Homebrew package management with a curated Brewfile — dev tools, Kubernetes/cloud CLIs, casks, fonts, and multiple Java (Temurin) versions
• CLI commands in bin/ — handy scripts available system-wide
• Config for Bash, Zsh, Vim, and Starship (all symlinked into place)

Installation

Clone this repo to ~/workspace/dotfiles and run the bootstrap:

git clone git@github.com:vegardlu/dotfiles.git ~/workspace/dotfiles
cd ~/workspace/dotfiles
bash bootstrap.sh

The bootstrap presents an interactive menu — pick what you need:

┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│          dotfiles bootstrap           │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘

  Select tasks to run:

    1)  Create workspace directory
    2)  Create symlinks
    3)  Install Homebrew packages
    4)  Set Fish as default shell

    5)  Run all
    0)  Exit

Running all tasks will create ~/workspace, symlink config files, install everything in the Brewfile, and set Fish as your default shell.

The dotfiles command

After setup, you can re-run the bootstrap anytime by simply typing:

dotfiles

This is a Fish alias that runs bash ~/workspace/dotfiles/bootstrap.sh. Use it whenever you pull new changes or want to re-link config files and install new packages.

CLI commands

Scripts in bin/ are added to your $PATH automatically. They're available as regular commands from any directory.

Command	Description
nais-postgres-proxy	Interactive wrapper around nais postgres proxy — prompts for team, port, reason, and database name with sensible defaults. Supports auto-discovery of databases via kubectl and non-interactive flag mode. Run nais-postgres-proxy --help for details.
cloudutil	Jasypt encryption utility for Spring Boot secrets
flyway-clean	Safe Flyway database clean with confirmation prompt

Shell aliases

Defined in config/fish/alias.fish:

Alias	What it does
e	Pretty file listing (eza with icons and git status)
dotfiles	Re-run the bootstrap script
mvnit	mvn clean install with integration tests
mvnp	mvn clean install with packaging
mvnitp	mvn clean install with packaging + integration tests
java11 / java17 / java21 / java25	Switch active Java version
dcd	Shortcut for docker compose with a shared dev compose file

Repo structure

dotfiles/
├── bootstrap.sh              # Entry point — interactive setup menu
├── brew-install.sh            # Installs Homebrew + runs brew bundle
├── Brewfile                   # All Homebrew packages, casks, and fonts
├── .vimrc                     # Vim config
├── bin/                       # CLI commands (added to $PATH)
│   ├── nais-postgres-proxy
│   ├── cloudutil
│   └── flyway-clean
└── config/
    ├── fish/
    │   ├── config.fish        # Main Fish config (sources the files below)
    │   ├── alias.fish         # Shell aliases
    │   ├── export.fish        # Exported env vars (Java homes, workspace)
    │   ├── local.fish         # Machine-local env vars (not committed)
    │   └── completions/       # Fish completions for CLI commands
    ├── bash/.bash_profile
    ├── zsh/.zshenv, .zshrc
    └── starship.toml          # Starship prompt config

Adding your own stuff

• New CLI command → add an executable script to bin/, optionally with Fish completions in config/fish/completions/
• New Homebrew package → add to the matching section in Brewfile, then run dotfiles and pick "Install Homebrew packages"
• New alias → add to config/fish/alias.fish
• Machine-specific env vars → add to config/fish/local.fish