Dotfiles feel too personal to share
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Dotfiles feel too personal to share
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Re: Dotfiles feel too personal to share
#2I feel similarly. For me it’s less about my unique customizations and more about this paranoia of there being something remotely sensitive in my ssh configs or something… the idea of hostnames, ips, domains, etc “leaking” worries me.
I use chezmoi to manage my dotfiles, if anyone has any advice on how to handle these worries I am all ears. I would love to share mine, even to just be able to point coworkers at my config.
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#3I feel similarly. For me it’s less about my unique customizations and more about this paranoia of there being something remotely sensitive in my ssh configs or something… the idea of hostnames, ips, domains, etc “leaking” worries me. I use chezmoi to manage my dotfiles, if anyone has any advice on how to handle these worries I am all ears. I would love to share mine, even to just be able to point coworkers at my conf…
I get around that by sourcing a separate file in my config that I don't make public. Those are my company-specific settings.
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#4I feel similarly. For me I know it is because of my rejection sensitive dysphoria. The fear of someone seeing and judging something personal of mine is quite uncomfortable. I don't have the same issue with code I write professionally.
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#5I feel similarly. There is virtually zero chance I’m going to clone and run someone else’s dotfiles. So the act of sharing them is a generous look into a developer’s toolchain and I’ve been inspired by others’ choices. So, if you know how, please share them!
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#6I used to use chezmoi and had a great experience with it .It made it easy to choose exactly what I wanted to share. These days, I don’t have many devices, so I stopped using it. Still, it feels great when someone asks, “How did you set that up?” and I can instantly share my entire configuration through a GitHub repo.
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#7I have two sets of dotfiles - public and private. I don't mind sharing my public ones - what do I care if someone on the internet thinks my tmux setup is non-optimal? But there are some things I do keep private, though they probably don't qualify as dotfiles, exactly - RSS subscription backups, some backup scripts that reveal filepaths I'd rather not have revealed, old outdated things like my znc, irssi, etc. configs...
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#8I feel similarly. There is virtually zero chance I’m going to clone and run someone else’s dotfiles. So the act of sharing them is a generous look into a developer’s toolchain and I’ve been inspired by others’ choices. So, if you know how, please share them!
I've never straight up cloned them, but my dotfiles have grown in large part out of some copy-and-pastes from other people's.
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#9I truly appreciate people sharing their dotfiles, I learned so much about vim and zsh just by reading other people's configuration alone (and the occasional comments there).
Also, the quality of life improvements like `alias ..='cd ..'`, or mapping `l` such that it either opens a pager or lists a dir, depending on the argument. I'd never come up with those, and they're beyond useful.
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