Installation

Run the following commands

mkdir ~/tmp
git         # installs git via xcode
git config --global github.user "github username"
# install Brew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
python3 -m pip install pdfannots  # Install pdfannots
# brew install coreutils skhd yabai kitty
# brew install llm # Install llm https://github.com/simonw/llm/
brew install yt-dlp
brew install ffmpeg
brew install whisper-cpp
brew install tmux

git clone https://github.com/zrlram/configs.git .dotfiles/
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/alias ~/.alias
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/inputrc ~/.inputrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/editrc ~/.editrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bashrc ~/.bashrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zshrc ~/.zshrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zshenv ~/.zshenv
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/profile ~/.profile
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/profile ~/.zprofile
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/skhdrc ~/.skhdrc
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/yabairc ~/.yabairc
mkdir .ssh; chmod 700 ~/.ssh
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/ssh_config ~/.ssh/config
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/bin ~/bin
mkdir ~/.config
mkdir ~/.config/ghostty
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/ghostty ~/.config/ghostty/config

• Install fabric: curl -L https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/releases/latest/download/fabric-darwin-amd64 > fabric && chmod +x fabric && ./fabric --version fabric --setup
• Install PAI (run Codex, give it PAI URL and ask it to install)
• Install jsonpp: https://github.com/jmhodges/jsonpp/downloads
• Install glow: brew install glow
• Install ripgrep: brew install rga - https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all
• Install superpowers (https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/README.md)

Configuration

• Open vim and :PlugInstall
• find id_ files and add to .ssh directory
• llm keys set openai : sk-pnLxxxx
• vi ~/.env and add OPENAI_KEY

Install ZSH Autosuggestions Plugin

brew install zsh-autosuggestions

echo "source $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh" >> ~/.zshrc

source ~/.zshrc

Install obsidian daily log cron

cp ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.ram.obsidian_runninglog_daily_email.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.ram.obsidian_runninglog_daily_email.plist

Tools

• Glow to look at Markdown data

Youtube Transribe

Mark entries with a URL in running log with #transcribe to have an hourly job transcribe the youtube vide automatically

Ollama

Using following models in Ollama:

• ollama run hf.co/QuantFactory/Ministral-3b-Instruct-GGUF
• ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410-HF-GGUF-TEST:Q6_K

Other Applications on OSX

• Grandperspective
• MacVIM
• Raycast
  • Install Granola extension (allows for transcript export too)
• XMind
• Superwhisper
• Granola
• Notion
• Obsidian
• Bitwarden
• Ghostty
• Visual Studio Code
• Codex
• Atlas (OpenAI)
• Docker Desktop
• OBS
• NetSpot
• Tunnelblick
• Msty

Others

• Podcast download from jcran: https://gist.github.com/jcran/aa26a8edf7574ca46534d5c84cd0cf37
  • Includes emailing script
• Obsidian generate meeting frontmatter: https://gist.github.com/jcran/9c6fb85b0b6a4df41e7fb64273fd501f
• Using fabric: fabric -y "" --stream --pattern extract_wisdom
• Using fabric with o3-mini: fabric -rp pattern_name -m o3-mini
• Using uv: #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
• Using whisper for translating videos and audio to txt

Using Anaconda

New Project

conda init -n my_project conda activate my_project conda install pip pip install ...

Maintenance

• Never install into the base! Especially not pip.
• My envrionments ai - for whisper (see command) audio -- for binaural, for example

Some projects

Data Formulator

pip install data_formulator # https://github.com/microsoft/data-formulator?tab=readme-ov-file python -m data_formulator --port 8080