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oceanplexian ◴[] No.45672984[source]
It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever.

- When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment

- When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP

- Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use native UNIX implementations. If it's more complicated than that, I'll code it in Python or Go.

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trenchpilgrim ◴[] No.45673397[source]
When I had one nix computer, I wanted to customize it heavily.

Now I have many nix computers and I want them consistent and with only the most necessary packages installed.

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ozim ◴[] No.45674593[source]
Besides many nix computers I also have wife, dog, children, chores, shopping to be done. Unlike when I was young engineer I could stay all night fiddling with bash scripts and environments.
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soraminazuki ◴[] No.45679185[source]
What does your wife, dog, children, chores, and shopping have to do with custom configuration and scripts? Just set up a Git repo online, put your files there, and take a couple of minutes to improve it incrementally when you encounter inconveniences. And just like that, you made your life easier for a marginal effort.
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1. 1718627440 ◴[] No.45680528[source]
They compete for time.
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2. mlrtime ◴[] No.45680838[source]
Don't even try to explain the scripts to wife*, try the dog. At least he'll understand it just as much and be enthusiastic to hear it!

*may not be applicable to all wives, ymmv.

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3. soraminazuki ◴[] No.45681022[source]
I'm saying that makes no sense, as I've wrote in the comment you're replying to.
4. TsiCClawOfLight ◴[] No.45683234[source]
I thought my wife latex, she loves me for it :D