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Seemed like the thing do to. My dotfiles.

Is indexzero/dotfiles beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to indexzero/dotfiles to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

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Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
18
Avg merge
11m
Merged PRs (30d)
2
Dominant language
Shell
License
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Last GitHub push
Sep 29, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 20, 2026
No contributing guide
No code of conduct
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  • Faster bootstrap runs without changing what a profile installs
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#60 ·

  • Catch deprecated and disabled formulae before a bootstrap run does
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 39/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#59 ·

  • fzf shell integration is never wired on a fresh machine
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#58 ·

  • Easy to remember one-liners
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 48/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#54 ·

  • Avoiding my "locus of attention" becoming the machine with ~/.junkdrawer
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#53 ·

  • oneliners: evergreen
    Open
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    Difficulty 3/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 15/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#52 ·

  • Automate Tailscale installation on darwin from pkgs.tailscale.com
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#51 ·

  • Decide how to handle HEIF files
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#50 · 1 comment ·

  • Next level `wt` integration
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#49 ·

  • ghcd for the agentic era
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#47 ·

  • chore(scripts): retire bonsai + wtprune once skiffs `prune --apply` ships
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#46 ·

  • Use git-cliff
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    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#44 ·

  • Use wt-spawn
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#43 ·

  • Use hammerspoon to rebind numeric keypad
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#34 ·

  • Expand on configs
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#31 ·

  • Use displayplacer
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#27 ·

  • nmfind
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#14 ·

  • Use `pkgver` in `vbump`
    Open
    • Is something wrong?

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    indexzero/dotfiles#2 ·

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