My Personal Development Setup for My Mac

https://github.com/davidgatti/my-development-setup

by davidgatti • 9 years ago

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natch2• 9 years ago

This is interesting. Always interesting to read about people's development setups.

Especially was intrigued by your idea of not having backups by avoiding having files and instead storing everything on GitHub. (the downside being little things like API keys being exposed... YzUwYzQ3MzAzODdlZDJl...).

How many years have you been doing it this way? Do you envision it working long term? What if GitHub loses your data at some point?

These questions aside, there is some really good info here and I will be studying your tips on using VirtualBox. Would love it if you provided more detail about your use of Docker (something that could get a newbie started with it).

Having a single disk image for each client is cool. I would think you would want to back these up? But you say nope. That's a bit confusing. Maybe you store a huge binary on GitHub? Yes GitHub supports large binaries but ouch? Would be nice to know the story there.

davidgatti2• 9 years ago

Thank you for your interest, very cool questions. Let me address them:

1. I use Foreman to land Env variables from a .env file which is not part of the repo. So no sensitive data will be stored in Git

2. UU years, I think 2 years, where last month I finally had the time to make VirtualBox the way I wanted it to work - never had the time to sit down few days and just do it.

3. Docker, I honestly recommend their documentation it is so well written and to the point that you will need just 2 weekends to know all you need. Very impressive. But sure, I'm might do an update on that :)

4. About the encrypted disc images, they are in the iCloud folder, so they are bucked up there, and are encrypted on their own so I don't care even if someone would get access to my iCloud account.

Hope this helps :)

natch2• 9 years ago

What is UU?

BTW I was surprised to not see Charles on your app list. It's incredibly useful. Maybe Paw has some overlap though?

My Personal Development Setup for My Mac

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