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I can relate. At my first job, I spent ages customizing my Macbook. Everything from dark/light themes, shortcuts, gestures, terminal, bash aliases, etc, was met

I can relate. At my first job, I spent ages customizing my Macbook. Everything from dark/light themes, shortcuts, gestures, terminal, bash aliases, etc, was meticulously personalized to be both effective and fun. Then I moved to a second job and was horrified at the thought of going through all that work a second time. Now I wget my bash aliases, tweak things as I go, and leave it at that. I wish there was a good way to make customization portable, but then you take on the work of maintaining it as programs and OSes update.

lycopodiopsida 5y ago
The key here is to focus on tools with portable configs. Hammerspoon is easy to install and has a text config and so is Emacs, Alfred/Launchbar config folder can be copied and advanced keyboard shortcuts, like a hyperkey, can be configured with a better keyboard directly(QMK). This way you won't spend much time reconfiguring a new machine, if you don’t switch them every week. And all the small things can sum up to a better quality of work in the end.