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Building Modern Cross-Platform Dotfiles

Build macOS/Linux dotfiles with XDG compliance, 1Password SSH integration, and a test script. Covers the design decision to use copy-based deployment over symlinks, and how CLAUDE.md enables AI-assisted maintenance.

March 15, 20265 min read

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#dotfiles #zsh #git+2

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Two environment variables are all you need to make AWS CLI follow XDG Base Directory

AWS CLI defaults to ~/.aws/, but setting AWS_CONFIG_FILE and AWS_SHARED_CREDENTIALS_FILE is enough to make it XDG-compliant.

March 15, 20261 min read

#aws #cli #xdg+2

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Target specific sections with --force in dotfiles install.sh

Solved the problem of --force overwriting all files by adding a section name argument to copy_file. Now --force zsh git only overwrites those sections.

March 15, 20261 min read

#bash #dotfiles

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A dotfiles test script can verify file diffs, not just existence

How to write a test script that validates dotfiles deployment in three stages: file existence, permissions, and content diffs. Includes an exclusion pattern for Git config's [user] section.

March 10, 20261 min read

#dotfiles #cli