I keep all my config source controlled and have my own setup program that creates symlinks and so on, along with a "bootstrap" script that starts from a clean M

I keep all my config source controlled and have my own setup program that creates symlinks and so on, along with a "bootstrap" script that starts from a clean Mac and installs and configures everything I need: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/bootstrap.py https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/bootstrap.py There are still some things that are manual: * some macOS settings that can't easily be set via "defaults write" * VS Code makes it hard to source control its settings, so I use the settings sync extension, but that requires manual config of the gist id and access token. It's super frustrating that a programmer's editor makes it hard to source control its settings! * iterm2's config system is frustrating as well, with user-level config (eg. colors) mixed in with things like window positions and "last time checked for updates" timestamps. So I pretty much set up my last good config for it and then run 'git update-index --assume-unchanged' on its config so I don't have to see the file constantly dirty in my repo.