With extra bonus: write an installer script that symlinks the files to the correct place. Use Ansible, plain old Bash, or Python depending on your preference.

Create a dotfiles repo in git. Gives you a way to track changes to your .bashrc or .zshrc

Mid 90s at work as a project support technician in Sony Broadcast R&D in the UK. Slackware, then red hat mostly. Installed Linux boxes in various digital TV stations in London in 1999/2000, used to insert interactive games into the broadcast stream.

I was a sysadmin from 99 to about 2018, from then onwards I’m more DevOps. Done a bunch of stuff with CentOS too, including migrating 500k email accounts to our hosted solution. Other cool stuff included a VMware based development environment using Foreman + FreeIPA to auto provision dev VMs with all sorts of puppet code.

Now at home I run Fedora and work on macOS, writing Terraform and Python. And some nodejs too.

Been at it a long ass time now lol

Possibly offtopic, I wrote a guide to setting up zsh on macOS: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/0ffcb98aa262c585c49d4b3f3ae24019

I’m only just starting to use Kitty, but so far it’s been a joy. It may end up displacing iTerm2 from my work machines.

+1 for Textual. It’s great stuff!

It’s probably the CSS extension. I keep meaning to try it but always forget! Now that I’ve figured out a workaround for VSCode not showing the correct Iosevka font weight, I’ll give the CSS extension a go. Thank you for the sort of reminder!

Multi window editing in VSCode? Nice.

Now I’m hoping that the devs add the ability to use a different font for comments and/or docstrings.

Can you not afford to pay for the cap to be removed? I do that, it’s like $15/month extra or something.

I love a good condensed font:

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

It doesn’t support ligatures though.

I like both of those, but my terminal and coding are always in MPlus Code

I used Borg to backup a bunch of dev servers a few years ago, about 5TB from several dozen hosts, over several years. It worked flawlessly, and its dedupe is downright magical.

The restore workflow, where you just mount a snapshot and copy what you need, is fantastic. Very straightforward and reliable.

Mullvad because they don’t need your name, and you can pay by cash anonymously.

Yeah git is complex. It performs a huge array of tasks, the problem domain is very complicated. Do people complain Typescript or Rust is too complex? Probably some do but most accept that learning a programming language takes time and dedication.

The hacker news thread on that article is depressing. So many people saying “waaahh git is hard! I had to look up how to do something!” No shit? You had to learn something you previously didn’t know?!?

Like, multiple devs I’ve known had trouble understanding that things in git are often just pointers. Symbolic links. Yet it’s treated like an alien ship just crashed into their lap!

Isn’t your computer disk encrypted already?

Otherwise you seem to want jails or sandboxes to protect each app, with access denied by default. That sounds more like Android, or possibly Qubes OS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

I use ranger to navigate around and view large source trees. I like its miller columns like Finder.

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I use a git repo combined with the basic install utility. Clone the repo, run the app installer, then run the install script. For symlinks I just use a zsh script.

When can I preorder the Pixel 8 Pro? My 6 Pro has a scratched screen so I might turn it into webcam or media player.

Huh, it’s not hideous. I like it.