Common Configurations

Software

• Microsoft Edge
• Visual Studio Code
• Bitwarden
• Logitech Options+
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Cascadia Code Font
• Spotify

Development Software

• Bash
  • bash-completion
• Git
• GitHub Desktop
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Docker
• dotnet SDK
• Python 3
• Node.js
• jq
• yq
• kubectl
• helm
• k9s

Work Software

• Slack
• Zoom
• Google Drive

Configurations

Software Configurations

Shell

• TODO: Common shell configs
  • Bash
  • PowerShell

Microsoft Edge

• Set as default browser
• Change search engine to Google
  • Change search option from Search bar to Address bar (Check out Microsoft Edge Dark Patterns)

Zoom

• Set Stop when joining on Audio and Video settings
• Enable Automatically join computer audio when joining on Audio settings
• Disable Ask me to confirm when I leave a meeting

Visual Studio Code

• Configure Settings Sync
• Add code to PATH

Useful Extensions

• GitLens
• Text Power Tools
• indent-rainbow
• Local History
  • I also override some configurations to prevent the extension to pollute the workspace:

    "local-history.absolute": true,
    "local-history.path": "/tmp/.vsfilehistory",

• Markdown Snippets for MDX and Docusaurus
• Rainbow CSV

Common Configurations

• For C# development outside on other VS Code based extensions, see Debugging Outside of Microsoft Ecosystem

Mozilla Firefox

• Following Sync custom preferences, set services.sync.prefs.dangerously_allow_arbitrary to true, sync, then set it back to false

Common Configurations

• browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent: true
• sidebar.verticalTabs: true
  • In the sidebar settings, enable Expand sidebar on hover