New Environment Setup

My approach to setting up a new development environment

I’ve set up new development environments more times than I can count. Because I am constantly tinkering with my workspace settings, I’ve compiled these pages as a resource for my standard applications and a guide on configuring tools like Git and Visual Studio Code.

This repository contains the ‘dotfiles’ and configuration files I use for various applications.

Setup Files Repository

Reference Material

Application Installation

This is my essential checklist of applications for setting up a new development environment, including links to their official install sources.

Visual Studio Code Setup

This page provides information on the Visual Studio Code settings file and a checklist of tasks I follow when setting up this application on a new machine.

Git Reference

This page describes common Git commands that I have encountered in my personal coding projects. It it written as a reference, but by no means a comprehensive reference.

Default Shell

This page describes how to change the default shell in several applications that are typically used in development.

Arduino Command Line Interface

This page serves as a quick reference for the Arduino CLI commands I use most frequently. I’ve compiled these here to save time on recurring lookups.

PuTTY Configuration

This page describes how to access a configuration file for a saved PuTTY session. Each saved session is saved in a *.reg file and can be imported or exported through the…