--- title: A decade of dotfiles | daily.dev description: Evan Hahn's first commit to his dotfiles repository was ten years ago. Here are a few things he’s learned about maintaining a system configuration in that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-decade-of-dotfiles-wpelgxjk4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A decade of dotfiles | daily.dev og:description: Evan Hahn's first commit to his dotfiles repository was ten years ago. Here are a few things he’s learned about maintaining a system configuration in that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-decade-of-dotfiles-wpelgxjk4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WPElgxJk4.png og:image:alt: A decade of dotfiles og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A decade of dotfiles **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Evan Hahn's first commit to his dotfiles repository was ten years ago. Here are a few things he’s learned about maintaining a system configuration in that time. (This will mostly be for macOS and Linux; I don’t have experience configuring Windows or FreeBSD machines) ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#dotfiles](https://daily.dev/tags/dotfiles), [#shell](https://daily.dev/tags/shell) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-decade-of-dotfiles-wpelgxjk4) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A decade of dotfiles","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-decade-of-dotfiles-wpelgxjk4","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-decade-of-dotfiles-wpelgxjk4"},"datePublished":"2022-05-31T05:06:27.488Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:19:16.935Z","description":"Evan Hahn's first commit to his dotfiles repository was ten years ago. Here are a few things he’s learned about maintaining a system configuration in that...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9cbfc70eac9abb6269c7c3d013edd92a","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/9cbfc70eac9abb6269c7c3d013edd92a","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-decade-of-dotfiles-wpelgxjk4","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"dotfiles,shell","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A decade of dotfiles"}]} ```