my kingdom for a top level config directory that contains and encapsulates all this loose clutter

(the real issue, of course, being not the lack of the config directory, but the lack of a shared belief that all these tools should work out out of that directory rather than needing to have their config files live at the root)

Swag from from 2009 Golden Gate #ruby Conference #GoGaRuCo. A different time in the San Francisco Ruby scene. Mistakes were made and some people did dumb or thoughtless stuff in this different time. Not saying it was perfect.

But it was a singularly fun time to be part of a vibrant and growing creative coder community.