Starting Up – Mavice

I recently ran into a bug with my MacBook Pro that caused it to crash every single night. The problem this poses is that I have to start up a number of applications, and open a few terminal windows and issue various commands before I can even start working. While it may not seem like a huge issue, doing it day after day after day was driving me nuts.

This post details a simple solution I set up to alleviate this pain point (Mac only). Now I use this approach by default because whenever I need to restart – all of the busywork is done.

I’m going to use 3 applications, and set up a single ‘keyword’ that will light the fire that gets everything up and running in one fell swoop.

The following video walks through the pattern – and important links/notes are listed below.

Starting Up

TOOLS:

Alfred – https://www.alfredapp.com/
Tmux – https://github.com/tmux
Tmuxinator – https://github.com/tmuxinator

 #./.tmuxinator.yml
 name: yourtmuxname
 root: ~/
 tmux_options: -f ~/.tmux.mac.conf
 windows:
     - main:
         layout: main-vertical
         panes:
             - pane1:
                 - cd /Users/you/Documents/whatever/server/logs
                 - tail -f -n 1000 error.log
             - pane2:
                 - cd /Users/you/IdeaProjects/localTool
                 - python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
             - pane3:
                 - cd /Users/you/Documents/aem-servers/server/crx-quickstart/bin
                 - DEBUG=true ./start
     - chrome: /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --ignore-certificate-errors --disable-web-security --disable-site-isolation-trials --ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests &> /dev/null

#### COLOUR (Solarized 256)
# default statusbar colors
set-option -g status-style fg=colour136,bg=colour235 #yellow and base02
 
# default window title colors
set-window-option -g window-status-style fg=colour244,bg=default #base0 and default
 
# active window title colors
set-window-option -g window-status-current-style fg=colour166,bg=default #orange and default
 
# pane border
set-option -g pane-border-style fg=colour235 #base02
set-option -g pane-active-border-style fg=colour240 #base01

# message text
set-option -g message-style fg=colour166,bg=colour235 #orange and base02

# pane number display
set-option -g display-panes-active-colour colour33 #blue
set-option -g display-panes-colour colour166 #orange

# clock
set-window-option -g clock-mode-colour colour64 #green

# bell
set-window-option -g window-status-bell-style fg=colour235,bg=colour160 #base02, red