Anson's dotfiles

Informed by https://dotfiles.github.io/

Having a Git repo in your home folder doesn't work very well, so we clone this into ~/dotfiles and symlink into home with GNU Stow.

Setup

Clone and bootstrap:

xcode-select --install # for git
git clone https://github.com/ansonhoyt/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./bootstrap.sh

Bootstrap handles:

• Homebrew + packages (brew bundle --global)
• GNU Stow installation and stowing (symlinking dotfiles to home)
• mise runtimes and CLIs (mise install — postinstall hooks add git hooks and agent skills)
• Claude Code plugin sync

When done it prints the remaining manual steps.

Stow

See man stow. For ignored files see .stow-local-ignore.

Useful commands:

stow --no --verbose=2 .          # Preview changes
stow --verbose --restow .        # Reapply (clears stale symlinks)

tmux

See https://tmuxcheatsheet.com/

tmux new -n <session-name>  # create a new session with a name
Ctrl + b d                  # detach from the current session
tmux ls                     # list all sessions
tmux a -t <session-name>    # attach the named session

TODO

• Consider https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it
• Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18896422
• Consider Dotfile madness discussed on HN