My Terminal and Editor Theming

As you may know, I make YouTube videos for Tailscale for a living. One of the most common questions in the comments I get (weirdly) is, “how do you theme your tools?”

This post will set out to answer that question in more detail than I can provide in a simple comment reply.

Font

Where possible I use Berkeley Mono. Fira Code or Jetbrains Mono are nice fallbacks.

Terminal

macOS terminal - ghostty

Linux terminal - omarchy defaults ( A lacritty )

Here’s my ghostty config.

appearance

font-family = "BerkeleyMono Nerd Font" font-size = 16 window-inherit-font-size = true window-height = 33 window-width = 130

shell

mouse-hide-while-typing = true shell-integration = zsh clipboard-paste-protection = false

macos

nix handles updates

auto-update = off macos-titlebar-style = native macos-option-as-alt = true quit-after-last-window-closed = true keybind = shift+enter=text: \n

Shell PromptStarship

The prompt that you see (the bit that contains the filepath, username, etc) is configured using Starship - a minimal, blazing fast, customizable shell prompt.

The configuration I use hangs out in my nix-config git repo. I use nix and nix-darwin to apply this configuration automatically.nix-config/home/starship/starship.toml at main · ironicbadger/nix-config Contribute to ironicbadger/nix-config development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub ironicbadger

Editor

VSCode - the editor that in the darkness bound them

Neovim - I am still experimenting with neovim but you can find my configuration on GitHub

The VSCode theme shown below is Bearded Theme Monokai Stone. For right now I am using the default icons but in the past the Bearded Icons pack may have been shown too.

Other useful tools

In no particular order a list of other tools I use and enjoy on macOS in particular are:BentoBox - Window management appSnippety - Text expansionRaycast - Spotlight replacementIce - makes app “systray” icons on macOS bearable (especially with a notch)iStat Menus - Shows me what’s going at a glanceHammerflow (and Hammerspoon) - Keyboard driven task navigation