Dotfiles ​

Dotfiles are all the hidden settings and configuration files you have on your Unix system.

I wrote a bit on how you can set up and start customizing your shell from scratch as well as how to set up a dotfiles folder and share it on GitHub here.

My own dotfiles can be found here. They are always in a state of flux. But I am learning and adapting things as I go.

chezmoi is a nice tool to manage dotfiles.

Interesting dotfiles ​

• Ahmed Gabri
• Ian Macalinao
• Gary Bernhardt
• RiN
• Carlos Becker
• bluz71 - Interesting vim setup.
• caarlos0 - Made antibody.
• wangsongiam - Interesting Hammerspoon and Zsh config.
• Keith - Vim, Zsh, Tmux, and macOS.
• bresilla - Neat Linux look.
• Jess Frazelle - Docker/Linux.
• Roma Volosatovs - Private NixOps network infrastructure.
• yqrashawn - Made Goku.
• Gleb Skibitsky - Uses Goku/Karabiner.
• Sascha Grunert
• Brandon Amos
• Tyler Neely
• Nega
• fatih
• Mathias
• Nikita Sobolev
• Greg Hurrell
• Angelo Gazzola
• Aymeric Beaumet
• Samuel Meuli
• xenodium - Emacs.
• Vincent Ambo
• Oliver Caldwell
• Hylke Visser
• Zach Holman
• Thibault Duplessis
• Dimitri Sabadie
• Michael Lingelbach
• Peter Piekarczyk
• Andrew Gallant
• Nick Nisi - Vim, zsh, git, homebrew, neovim.
• Aiden Scandella
• ThePrimeagen
• Folke Lemaitre
• Dmitry Zherebko
• Stefan Judis
• Maxim Baz
• Stefan VanBuren
• Chris Grieser
• Anton Gubarev

Links ​

• Dotbot - Tool to bootstrap config.
• Managing your dotfiles
• Chezmoi - Manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines. (Web) (HN)
• Immutable Dev Environment (2019)
• Nice setup of new mac instructions
• Syncing dev environments the hard way (2020)
• dotcommon - What do people have in their dotfiles?
• homeshick - Git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash.
• Awesome dotfiles
• rcm - Management suite for dotfiles.
• Dotdrop - Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere. (Web)
• Dotter - Dotfile manager and templater written in Rust. (HN)
• Dotfile - Version control system designed for dotfiles.
• Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) (HN)
• yadm - Yet Another Dotfiles Manager. (Code)
• Ask HN: Dotfiles Management Tools? (2021)
• dfm - Dotfile manager with 0 dependencies, minimal configuration, and automatic cleanup.
• A Dotfile History (2022) (HN)
• A Decade of Dotfiles (2022) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Shelf - Good Symlinks Manager. Swap files from any location with symlinks and manage them easily in one place.
• Unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub (HN)
• Dotfile madness (2019) (HN)
• soanm - Shell Of A New Machine: Quickly configure new environments.
• toml-bombadil - Dotfile manager with templating.
• dotfiles symbolic link CLI
• Comtrya - Configuration Management for Localhost / dotfiles.
• antidot - Cleans up your $HOME from those pesky dotfiles.
• Dotstingray - Dotfiles management library which runs on Deno.
• Neutron Sync - Sync your personal dotfiles to an encrypted GitHub.
• Fleek - All-in-one management system for everything you need to be productive on your computer.