Over time, shell dotfiles often bloat: dozens of unused plugin packs, animated prompts, and noticeable latency whenever opening a new terminal tab.
My dotfiles practice radical subtraction: new shell instances must reach prompt readiness in under 20ms.
Subtractive Directives
- Lean Completions: Leveraging native Zsh completions and minimal syntax highlighting without heavy framework wrappers.
- Ergonomic Aliases: High-frequency workflows (e.g.
git,jj,rsync) condensed into 2-letter keystrokes oriented toward muscle memory. - Hermetic Portability: Managed via plain symlinks, capable of bootstrapping on any POSIX system in one command.