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webpro / awesome-dotfiles

awesome-dotfiles

A curated list of dotfiles resources.

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What it is

A curated list of dotfiles resources.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-08-05 13:38:20 UTC to 2024-11-27 03:56:06 UTC.

012015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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seer·Nov 27, 2024
I’ve found that with a good dotfiles[1] setup + cloud storage, it is better to just reset the whole system and re-install whatever is needed. The ability to do that is actually quite powerful as both disaster recovery and getting new hardware - it is in my mind so much cleaner to just install everything again. The built in migration tools have always done too little or too much for my taste. Dotfiles feel just right. Funny enough hkdobrev introduced me to this philosophy almost 15years ago which I still use to this day and try to spread wherever I am. Thank you! [1] https://github.com/webpro/awesome-dotfiles
In Show HN: Clean Your Mac with a Script
westurner·Sep 6, 2020
Maybe most useful as resources for further study. Looks like Day 20 covers shell scripting. A few things worth mentioning: You can write tests for shell scripts and write TAP (Test Anything Protocol) -formatted output: https://testanything.org/producers.html#shell Quoting in shell scripts is something to be really careful about: > This and this do different things: # prints a newline echo $(echo "-e a\nb") # prints "-e a\nb" echo "$(echo "-e a\nb")" Shellcheck can identify some of those types of (security) bugs/errors/vulns in shell scripts: https://www.shellcheck.net/ LearnXinYminutes has a good bash reference: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/bash/ And an okay Ansible reference, which (like Ops School) we should contribute to: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ansible/ Why do so many pros avoid maintaining shell scripts and w
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riting one-off commands that they'll never remember to run again later? ... It may be helpful to format these as Jupyter notebooks with input and output cells. - Ctrl-Shift-Minus splits a cell at the cursor - M and Y toggle a cell between Markdown and code If you don't want to prefix every code cell line with a '!' so that the ipykernel Jupyter python kernel (the default kernel) executes the line with $SHELL, you can instead install and select bash_kernel; though users attempting to run the notebooks interactively would then need to also have bash_kernel installed: https://github.com/takluyver/bash_kernel You can save a notebook .ipynb to any of a number of Markdown and non-Markdown formats https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#markd... ; unfortunately jupytext only auto-saves to md without output cell content for now: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/issues/220 You can make reveal.js slides (that do include outputs) from a notebook: https://gist.github.com/mwouts/04a6dfa571bda5cc59fa1429d1309... With nbconvert, you can manually save an .ipynb Jupyter notebook as Markdown which includes the cell outputs w/ File > "Download as / Export Notebook as" > "Export notebook to Markdown" or with the CLI: https://nbconvert.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#conver... jupyter convert --to markdown jupyter convert --help With Jupyter Book, you can build an [interactive] book as HTML and/or PDF from multiple Jupyter notebooks as e.g. Markdown documents https://jupyterbook.org/intro.html : jupyter-book build mybook/ ... From https://westurner.github.io/tools/#bash : type bash bash --help help help help type apropos bash info bash man bash man man info info From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980353 ; this is how dotfiles work: info bash -n "Bash Startup Files" > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Star... ... Re: dotfiles, losing commands that should've been logged to HISTFILE when running multiple bash sessions and why I wrote usrlog.sh: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-20671184 (Ctrl-F for: "dotfiles", "usrlog.sh", "inputrc") https://dotfiles.github.io/ https://github.com/webpro/awesome-dotfiles ... awesome-sysadmin > resources: https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin#resources
In Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on

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