Dotfiles Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to dotfiles

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better dotfiles alternative or higher similarity.

dotfiles reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-06.
  • Take Advantage of Git Rebase
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2022
    You are more brave than I am - I have it explicitly disabled :-) https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/dotfiles/-/blob/main/.gitconfig

    When I pull and it runs into a merge conflict, I want to see that error/log on the CLI. Reason: Sometimes the automated pull-rebase takes a very long time to resolve conflicts after each step. I prefer to first run

    git fetch

    git diff branchname origin/branchname

    and then decide my strategy :)

    Bit off-topic but since we share .gitconfig tips - I upgraded to a recent Git version and enabled the "git push" option to setup tracking automatically. No more "git push -u origin branchname" actions. https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/dotfiles/-/blob/main/.gitconfig#...

      [push]
  • Slack is experiencing a service disruption
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2021
    Great analysis, thanks!

    Slack support says that users should tell their ISPs to invalidate the DNS cache for slack.com https://status.slack.com/2021-09/06c1e17de93e7dc2 (access with 8.8.8.8 as resolver)

    Since the faulty DS record was in .com, everyone has a max wait-for-ttl-to-expire time of 24h.

    Google/Cloudflare etc. seem to also invalidate .com caching very quickly, 8.8.8.8 quickly was the first workaround.

    Meanwhile, 14 hours later, DTAG in Germany still does not resolve. The default resolvers have dnssec enabled.

    dig slack.com +cd

    tells the resolver to skip dnssec validation tests, and then it works again. Screenshots with the command output in https://twitter.com/dnsmichi/status/1443840645513293853?s=2

    Very interested in the post-mortem analysis. I think there were similar mistakes as with nasa.gov incident and the comcast analysis in 2012: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2012/01/comcast-release...

    Learnings for me:

    - dnstracer (https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/dotfiles/-/blob/main/Brewfile#L5...) helps with detecting missing glue records, but not dnssec

    - dnstrace (https://github.com/rs/dnstrace) is a better alternative with dnssec

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