Rob Pike: “Dotfiles” being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012)

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  • kitty

    Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

    • Oh man, this is rich :))) Let me just leave this for posterity. kitty has had a socket for remote control for years: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#opt-kitty.allow_remote... (see socket-only). It can allow remote control from specific windows while disallowing it generally: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/launch/#cmdoption-launch-all...

    Furthermore the next release of kitty has capability based security for remote control with public key crypto to keep the data safe: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/discussions/5320

    I suggest you find a better place to move the goalposts in your attempts to smear and spread FUD.

  • unix-history-repo

    Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today

    • The code in question: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/389a4...

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • .files

    dotfiles for all my configs. (by spinningarrow)

    • Been using stow for my dotfiles for many years now and I’m really happy with the workflow: https://github.com/spinningarrow/.files

  • dotfiles

    My dotfiles (by peteryates)

  • cosmiconfig

    Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, TypeScript module, and more!

    • info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

  • env-paths

    Get paths for storing things like data, config, cache, etc

    • info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

  • conf

    Simple config handling for your app or module

    • info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • conf-cli

    simple cli for configuration and key/value's + oclif plugin for configuration

    • info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

  • data-store

    Easily get, set and persist config data. Fast. Supports dot-notation in keys. No dependencies. (by jonschlinkert)

    • info on XDG: [the XDG spec](https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-...)

    tools that respect XDG, for fellow JS CLI developers:

    - https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig Find and load configuration from a package.json property, rc file, or CommonJS module. [Check `searchPaths` to implement XDG spec compliance.](https://github.com/davidtheclark/cosmiconfig/issues/152)

    - Sindre's libraries use [`env-paths`](https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths#pathsconfig) to get paths compliant with this.

    - https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf simple config storing (maybe try [conf-cli](https://github.com/natzcam/conf-cli) to manipulate if needed) the successor to [configstore](https://github.com/sindresorhus/conf#how-is-this-different-f...)

    - https://github.com/jonschlinkert/data-store conf like datastore but in the shclinkerverse

  • xdg-go

    Go implementation of the XDG Base Directory Specification and XDG user directories

    • Slight correction here, XDG keys are analogous to Windows standards: https://github.com/adrg/xdg/blob/master/README.md

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