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New comment by amar1729 in "Show HN: Lnk – Git-native dotfiles manager"

amar1729 — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:51:08 +0000

I switched over to chezmoi a few years ago - previously had been managing a "main" (macOS) and "Ubuntu" branch for dots. turned out to be a huge pain especially once I ran into work-specific config, or wanted to try other Linux flavors. figuring out the templating and ignore rules to [merge everything](https://github.com/Amar1729/dotfiles/commit/00177e45b09bba80...) took about a weekend's effort but it was so worth it

New comment by amar1729 in "The evolution of a structural code editor"

amar1729 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:28:43 +0000

for diffing syntax trees, I've been trying out diffsitter, and it feels pretty good so far

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

New comment by amar1729 in "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes"

amar1729 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 04:00:54 +0000

that's kind of exactly OP's point. you can get hired and call yourself a "programmer" after a year of training today ... that was not true in quite the same way 30/40 years ago. and we're in agreement that someone with a year of training is probably not all that good.