What is the problem we are solving?

ask this everytime.

1. We want to configure the programs we love with our personal touch.
2. We want to be able to keep track and commit our changes over time.
3. I would prefer it to be any os compatible

Who here knows anything about dotfiles?

Example of dotfiles

lets do a little example

set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab
set smartindent

There are three solutions that seem to popular

• yadm
• GNU/stow
• dotbot

So lets talk about stow

So I think stow is amazing.

• Its very simple
• It only manages symlinks
• Which allows it to be OS and version-able

To install and follow along

sudo apt install stow

brew install stow

lets do some very basic examples

• Stow'ing. Some terminology
• Stow'ing our first file.
• Stow'ing our first directory.
• Stow'ing our two directories with similar paths
• UN-Stow'ing
• Stow'ing issues

So now that you know.

I just have to know. How many tingles are you feeling? I am feeling all of them.

• Or does it just feel complicated? Well lets work through the Ansible together!

I bet you want to talk about vim

I can tell. You are eager.

Vim Fundamentals