Stow is a great tool for managing dotfiles. My usage looks like cloning my dotfiles to my home directory, setting some environment variables via a script, then stowing relevant packages and boom my config is good to go... cd ~ git clone <my dotfi ... read more →

Check out stow for a brief introduction to stow What if I want to stow a package somewhere else? Boom, that's where -t comes in... Maybe I don't like having my dotfiles repo at $HOME and instead I want it in ~/git or ~/personal just to stay organize ... read more →

Sometimes I need to manually set a static IP of a Linux machine. I generally run the latest version of Ubuntu server in my VMs at home. In Ubuntu 20 I'm able to change up /etc/netplan/<something>.yml network: version: 2 ethernets: enp0 ... read more →