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My One-Command macOS Dev Setup: Ruby, Elixir, Zig, and Everything in Between
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My One-Command macOS Dev Setup: Ruby, Elixir, Zig, and Everything in Between

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Every developer knows the pain. You get a new machine — or worse, you nuke your old one — and spend the next two days installing Homebrew, cloning repos, configuring editors, setting up language versions, and wondering why your terminal looks wrong. By the time you're actually writing code again, it's Wednesday. I got tired of that. So I built a dotfiles repo that turns a fresh macOS install into a fully configured development environment with three commands. One window manager. Two editors. Two terminal multiplexers. Seven languages. 288 packages. All wired together with a unified color theme. This is how it works, and more importantly, why it's built this way. Why I Built This I've been a Rails developer for 9+ years. Over that time, my setup grew organically — a Vim plugin here, a shell alias there, a theme that only worked in one app. When I saw DHH's Omakase approach applied to developer tooling (everything opinionated, everything in one place), something clicked. That philosophy

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