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
• Enable custom CSS loading

Sidebery Tab Extension

Having vertical tabs enabled in Firefox makes it easier to just hide the native tab bar and keep the other menus intact. The Sidebery extension is a good alternative to the native tab bar.

Hiding the Sidebar

Add the following to userChrome.css:

#sidebar-box {
  display: none !important;
}

Auto Collapsing Sidebery Sidebar

note

You must keep firefox-csshacks up to data to keep this working.

• firefox-csshacks inside the chrome folder

• Add the following to userChrome.css, replacing the above code:

  @import url(firefox-csshacks/chrome/autohide_sidebar.css);
  
  #sidebar-main {
    display: none !important;
  }
  
  #sidebar-box {
    --uc-sidebar-width: 60px !important;
    --uc-sidebar-hover-width: 300px !important;
  }

• You can change the --uc-sidebar-width and --uc-sidebar-hover-width values to your liking