Post #4330075

2026-07-16 11:43 UTC

@dynamyc@nyanya.gay i use chezmoi for my dotfiles, and since i love creating color palettes and themes i figured i would use the templating features to populate my terminal and other apps with automated themes and a picker then i got addicted to how the data flows and this quickly snowballed into "what if i use one config file for any terminal i install in the future" among other ridiculous time wasters

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@yuki@nyanya.gay 2026-07-16 12:09

@dynamyc@nyanya.gay i do all of this instead of using nix like normal people would but im basically just making my own scriptable dotfiles configuration system that affects the exact apps i want it to and its portable/space-lightweight so i can bring it to servers like a bag on a stick, unlike some tools like pywal and a big etcetera of things this would replace for me despite the ridiculousness its not actually "difficult" to maintain, its just dotfiles, ive been using chezmoi templates for other things for a long while and i usually fiddle like this for a couple days and forget about it the rest of the year (nothing has retroactively broken before) but side effects do include very funny looking code gore like toml data -> template -> more toml data or this ridiculous combination of a template and script that runs when i edit the palettes file (actual chezmoi feature)

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