Fresh-Mac defaults
Dock, Finder, keyboard, trackpad, fonts, Homebrew, and core tools are already declared.
silver-grey · keyboard-first · reproducible · nix-native
An opinionated macOS,
raised in the fog.
One command. Your Mac, already sorted.
- Free
- Open source · MIT
- No accounts
- Reproducible, Nix-native
$ curl -fsSL https://nebelhaus.com/init.sh | bash
Paste it into your terminal. It reads the rice's bootstrap.sh
straight from GitHub — see exactly what it does.
Five rooms, one house
Each piece also stands on its own — all five free and MIT-licensed. Take the whole rice, or just the parts you like.
nebelhaus the rice
nix-darwin modules for tiling, a status bar, the shell, and Touch ID sudo — the whole system as text.
Explore →
pounce the launcher
a native, keyboard-first command palette. Summon, aim, pounce. Every command is just a file.
Explore →
nebelung the colors
a silver-mist Catppuccin variant, whiskered onto every app you own. Grey is the point.
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trill the messages
a fast, keyboard-first iMessage, SMS & RCS client. Reads chat.db read-only — it changes nothing.
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perch the shelf
a native temporary file shelf that grows out of your MacBook notch. Drop now, drag elsewhere later.
Explore →included in the rice
The useful bits are already here.
Things people usually rebuild one utility at a time.
Tiling that sticks
AeroSpace layout, hotkeys, boot agents, and a wake-time window re-sort come wired in.
Apps + actions
Pounce puts installed apps and your own shell-script commands behind ⌘Space.
Clipboard history
Search recent copies and paste them back without adding another menu-bar utility.
Quick answers
Math, units, time zones, and optional currency conversion answer inside the palette.
A real window switcher
⌘Tab moves by recent window across workspaces; hold and type to fuzzy-filter.
Terminal, finished
Ghostty, zellij, Helix, Yazi, Starship, bat, delta, fzf, and zoxide share one theme.
Touch ID sudo
Authenticate with a finger at the prompt — including from inside zellij or tmux.
Doctor + rollback
Inspect drift, diagnose common failures, or step back a complete system generation.
One-key quiet
Focus mode, optional Slack status, and your own shell hooks move together.
drag, swipe, or use the arrows
The whole machine is the config.
Tiling, launcher, shell, bar, defaults — raised from one flake, not a weekend of setup.