Constructing Zedotfiles

  The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this:
  that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a
  thing created is loved before it exists.  -Charles Dickens (apparently)


It all started sometime around 2024. It all started sometime around 2024 when I
started using Emacs. I wanted to try vim or Emacs and although I was using the
vim bindings for quite sometime in various IDEs, Emacs seemed like a more
intriguing choice to explore at first, basically due to the promise of a more
elaborate framework to configure. Whether it is or it is not is unknown to me at
this point.

I found myself trying to understand how it works daily during the first few
months. Then my configuration sort of settled to something I could work
with. Every now and then I kept tweeking it here and there. Some periods passed
without any changes to be followed by other periods with a lot of changes. The
configuration is a live codebase, it is my current preferences so therefore very
likely to change as time passes.

As I found myself tinkering with it daily, I thought that probably other people
might do the same at the same time. Tinkering and configuration. Tinkering and
configuration. A lot of people do that daily for different software.

I started thinking I need to store interesting configurations I found for Emacs
in a file so I can revisit. Every time I learned about one I kept going through
almost instantly to see what kind of things the other person had in there. Then
I started using parts from their config, sometimes quite unsuccessfully. That is
my own preferred way, I thought. Other people might just pick up the whole
config.

At that point the idea of a website had started brewing. So far I had been
keeping track of configs inside an org file, which I am using to configure Emacs
as well. This is relatively common in the Emacs configurations. Then the idea
expanded while thinking about making a website to share the data.

What if I put together a website that contains entries of different
configurations for different software and a project that explores how these can
be categorised and searched. I started writing the software right after.

Soon I saw a post on Reddit about a very very similar idea. Talked to the person
and we ended up making a Discord server. They invited one more in there and in
total we were 3. All 3, waiting for me to finish the first version.

We waited and waited as my schedule was a bit busy.

Eventually, what was created sometime around 2024 in my head while starring at
the screen and thinking was finally constructed and materialised around the
beginning of 2025.


Today I am happy to make available to you this.

Zedotfiles,
General tinkering and configuration

- thgs