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Alex Pearwin
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Alex Pearwin's personal blog at alexpearce.me covers programming and productivity. Since 2014, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's GNU Stow post as a guide to managing dotfiles across machines, and cite it when discussing dotfile setups. A Simple Jekyll Search post is also linked.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog of software engineer and ex-physicist Alex Pearwin (né Alex Pearce).
Most-linked posts?
- Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-14
What Hacker News says?
> - keeping all your configuration files (“dotfiles”: shell, git, etc) in one, version controlled place. The thing that finally made this worthwhile for me is GNU stow. https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/ Stow is available from homebrew if you prefer to get your Mac stuff that way.
Comment linking /2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/
on “Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?”Submitted Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016) as a story · 170 points
HN discussionstow has worked really nicely for managing my dotfiles. Here are two blog posts that helped me get my workflow down: https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/ https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2019/dotfiles_stow/
Comment linking /2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/
on “Ask HN: What underrated open source project deserves more recognition?”Submitted Managing Dotfiles with Nix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYeah, there are many of these out there... also GNU stow (see https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/ ) But I did not feel enough pain to switch to an extra utility yet. For now, `git` and `sh` are just enough...
Comment linking /2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/
on “Ask HN: How do you share your personal setup over different computers?”Submitted Thinking Loops in Elixir as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey author, it'd be cool if you gave me a mention, as you did comment on my post about it [1]! [1] https://alexpearce.me/2012/04/simple-jekyll-searching/#disqu...
Comment linking /2012/04/simple-jekyll-searching/
on “Show HN: Simple Jekyll Search”Which seems to be a bit of a genre, actually: - https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/ - https://protesilaos.com/codelog/gnu-stow-dotfiles/ - https://www.baty.net/2018/managing-dotfiles-with-gnu-stow/ - http://codys.club/blog/2015/07/07/managing-your-dotfiles-wit... - https://www.bharatkalluri.in/post/manage-dotfiles-using-stow... Not to mention these closely-related pages: - http://brandon.inver…
Comment linking /2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/
on “Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow”