FOFooSoft·Sep 6, 2015Submission
Homemaker: a makefile-inspired dotfile manager/bootstrapper written in Go
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homemaker
Efficiently manage your dot-file configuration settings.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
235GitHub stars
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What it is
Efficiently manage your dot-file configuration settings.
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
I love all of these new Go tools for managing your *nix systems. I started using Homemaker recently https://github.com/FooSoft/homemaker which is a very clean/lightweight…
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Observed mentions: 2015-09-03 15:27:50 UTC to 2015-09-06 13:46:43 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 3, 15:00 | 2015-09-03 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-03 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 3, 18:00 | 2015-09-03 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-03 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 3, 21:00 | 2015-09-03 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 00:00 | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 03:00 | 2015-09-04 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 06:00 | 2015-09-04 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 09:00 | 2015-09-04 09:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 12:00 | 2015-09-04 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 15:00 | 2015-09-04 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 18:00 | 2015-09-04 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-04 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4, 21:00 | 2015-09-04 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 00:00 | 2015-09-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 03:00 | 2015-09-05 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 06:00 | 2015-09-05 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 09:00 | 2015-09-05 09:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 12:00 | 2015-09-05 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 15:00 | 2015-09-05 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 18:00 | 2015-09-05 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-05 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 5, 21:00 | 2015-09-05 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6, 00:00 | 2015-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-06 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6, 03:00 | 2015-09-06 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-06 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6, 06:00 | 2015-09-06 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-06 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6, 09:00 | 2015-09-06 09:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-06 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6, 12:00 | 2015-09-06 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-06 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI love all of these new Go tools for managing your *nix systems.
I started using Homemaker recently https://github.com/FooSoft/homemaker which is a very clean/lightweight replacement for GNU Stow, Homesick, and other dotfile managers. The Go versions of these utilities are always simple and single-purpose.
Modern developers are returning to building Unix style systems programs. Time is being spent on that instead of the usual bulky python scripts that have been popular recently or the million personal-productivity web apps people were creating.
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