cmd / laptop

updated August 20, 2026

I maintain a laptop repo which sets up 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 can safely be run multiple times. I run it most workday mornings. It is tested on the latest version of macOS on a arm64 (Apple Silicon) chip. 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, restarting one whose settings the script has changed

No JavaScript runtime

The machine has no node, npm, or bun on it. Nothing here is a JavaScript project, and the tools that read TypeScript ship as native binaries: tsgo typechecks, dprint formats, and a Go program drives esbuild through its Go API when something needs bundling. See CDN.

The language servers took the longest to replace, because the usual ones are published only as npm packages:

• 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 last holdout was nvim-treesitter, whose install step runs tree-sitter generate and reads a grammar.js. Passing --js-runtime native reads it with the QuickJS the CLI already embeds. See vim / tree-sitter grammar.

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