2026-05-22 Fri

• "the dotfiles review" or CLIcraft

  • Idea/My a podcast or a zine / blog / newsletter where I adopt someone else's dotfiles for a while, get to know them, then interview them about how they came to those dotfiles, what they love, etc. Sample name: "The Dotfiles Review" or CLIcraft.
  • Thought of this because I'm getting bored with my dotfiles lately. I think I'm ready to try something else out.
  • Normally I'd create a completely different dotfile/dotfiles repo repo for this, but part of me is interested in constructing a Tell (Archaeology) of my dotfiles - where everything was burned down and re-written.
  • I love dotfiles repos for the same reasons I like Knowledge Gardens or even music made by humans - for the choices that their authors made, for what it says and compress about the people who developed them, and for the culture around them.
  • Some dotfiles that have interested me lately
    • Person/Chris Krycho/GitHub/dotfiles - the simplicity of not even using a Dotfiles Manager, just using mise File Tasks appeals to me. Fewer dependencies means that things can be more secure.
    • Person/lv416e/GitHub/dotfiles - this uses chezmoi which I've been getting to know lately. I find some of the design in Chezmoi to be a bit awkward, and it's way more powerful than I need

• nuked my dotfiles to make way for v4

  • big news for me. still figuring out what it's going to be. mostly just oriented around mise.

• Gard/Diff

  • Filed

    • categorical
      • Game/Video/Tower Defense
    • software ideas
      • Software/Engineering/Principle/Convention over Configuration
    • layers of time
      • Person/James A. Michener
      • Book/The Source
      • Archaeology/Tell
    • mise
      • mise/Task/File
      • mise/Task/File/Group
      • mise/tasks
      • mise/tasks/add
      • mise/tasks/add/file
      • mise/tasks/edit
      • mise/Task/Argument

  • Updated

    • Logseq/Entity/Game/Type