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hrmtst93837yesterday at 8:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Neat until you need to sync configs or keep multiple machines in harmony, at which point dotfile headaches stack up with Hammerspoon and Lua. Adding complex logic like window rules, app-specific behavior, or handling monitor changes strips away some of that hotkey simplicity and leads to endless tweaking. Still, for avoiding the mouse, it's one of the few flexible options left on macOS that doesn't feel ancient. Tradeoffs everywhere but nowhere else really compares in control.


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dbalateroyesterday at 10:32 PM

Syncing configs is a pretty solved problem with dotfile repos. I even made a starter repo anyone can fork & use: https://github.com/dbalatero/dotfiles-starter