cmd / laptop

updated September 02, 2026

I maintain a laptop repo that configures a macOS machine as a software development environment.

Install

Clone onto laptop:

export LAPTOP="$HOME/laptop"
git clone https://github.com/croaky/laptop.git $LAPTOP
cd $LAPTOP

Review:

less laptop.sh

Run:

./laptop.sh

What it sets up

The script is idempotent. I run it most workday mornings. I test it on the latest macOS on Apple Silicon. It:

• installs system packages with Homebrew
• sets the shell to zsh
• configures terminals Ghostty and Warp
• symlinks dotfiles from the repo to $HOME
• installs Go and Rust
• installs Go tools: deadcode, godoc, goimports, gopls
• installs language servers for Bash, Go, HTML, Lua, TypeScript
• installs the tsgo typechecker and the dprint formatter as pinned single binaries
• sets up Neovim with LSP, completion, fuzzy-finding
• starts Postgres dev and test clusters

No JavaScript runtime

The machine has no node, npm, or bun. The tools that read TypeScript are native binaries: tsgo typechecks, dprint formats, and a Go program drives esbuild through its Go API. See CDN.

The standard language servers publish only as npm packages, so I replaced them:

• Bash: bashd, a Go server built on mvdan.cc/sh that calls the shellcheck binary for diagnostics, in place of bash-language-server.
• HTML: superhtml, one Zig binary that is both a language server and a formatter, in place of vscode-langservers-extracted.
• TypeScript: tsgo --lsp --stdio, the same binary that typechecks, in place of tsserver.

The nvim-treesitter install step runs tree-sitter generate, which reads a grammar.js. --js-runtime native reads it with the QuickJS engine in the CLI. See vim / tree-sitter grammar.

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