I recently moved from #GNU stow to #chezmoi to escape symlink hellscape. Also, using it to lug around all my common agent skills across devices. Working fantastic so far. rednafi.com/misc/chezmoi/

Migrating from GNU stow to che...
Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

Why I swapped GNU stow's symlink farm for chezmoi: one command to bootstrap a Mac with Homebrew packages and macOS settings, a small daily sync loop, and agent skills shared between Claude Code and Codex.

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Tonight’s experiment

Bone-in pork chops and steamed artichoke… yum! #chezmoi

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#chezmoi #Instaspam #PhotosOfFood

Fun tools/things I've discovered down the rabbit hole in the last couple of days:

- Chezmoi (https://www.chezmoi.io/): A dotfile manager that is incredibly flexible and lets me do templates to only some files (and even parts of files) depending on certain information on the host (IE don't install KDE files on non-KDE systems).

- Backrest (https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest): A web GUI for your restic backups. Was having issues converting my autorestic setup to work on the Aurora-based OS on my laptop. (It's a me thing, nothing wrong with autorestic otherwise).

- RememberWindowPositions (https://github.com/rxappdev/RememberWindowPositions): WANTED THIS FOREVER WITH KDE. Loads windows back to where they were on your screen. Fully customizable. Only want some apps to be in the same place? Want some apps to open in different virtual screens? No problem (and much more functionality)!

#KDE #restic #backrest #chezmoi

chezmoi - chezmoi

Manage your dotfiles across multiple machines, securely.

And since the bookmarks are simple textfiles in my home directory that I control with #chezmoi, the bookmarks are always in sync on any of my machines.
Today I learned that #chezmoi is incredible. Syncing dotfiles across devices without relying on symlinks -unlike GNU stow - and using the templating engine for machine-specific tweaks is a total game-changer.
I just discovered #chezmoi and I don't know how it took this long.
@ericsfraga Since I started using #chezmoi I stop worrying about my dot files. Last time I got new laptop, it was ready for work in 10-15 minutes after #arch install was done. All my machines are always up to date with any new config values of any program I'm using