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Today I learned that you can sync dotfiles to Github Codespaces.

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I generally start my mornings off with a cup of ☕️ coffee and crank up the 💻 machines. I get up early and I usually get my best work done in the mornings because it's quiet and relatively distraction free. Because we're staying downstairs during [our renovations](/notes/house)[^1], my office is upstairs, and the den has been cozy in the morning due to the fireplace, I've been starting off on my iPad 📱 I nicknamed [Lisa](/docs/computers/lisa)[^2].

I try not to waste my caffeine boost 🚀 on reading the news, my messages or emails. Every afternoon before I cut loose from my desk, I generally try to close down everything except whatever projects I have going on so that I can pick right up on them in the mornings. I closely guard my attention likely because it'll easily skip off the rails and I wrote about this in [_Slow Thinking_](https://davidawindham.com/slow-thinking/)[^3]. And I've been slowly whittling my iPad into shape for more development and less communication which primarily revolves around [working with VS Code](/posts/vscode-ipad)[^4].

Yeah, I know... don't ask me "where I've been", I'm a [late adopter](https://davidawindham.com/late-adopter/)[^5]. I had barely touched the surface with CodeSpaces[^5] or Development Containers[^6] but I got a little OCD this morning over my terminal theme in a codespace and started digging into the configurations. Whatayaknow... turns out, I can just sync all of my configurations for the editor, terminal[^7], and development environment[^8]. Github and Microsoft have introduced an open specifications[^9]. 

Although I knew it was possible, I just hadn't spent much time doing it. I guess it's appropriate given my biggest time waster until now, [_The Simpsons Tapped Out_](https://davidawindham.com/the-simpsons/)[^10], is being deprecated so I guess I'll never finish my monorail. 

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## References

 
- https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-your-user-preferences/personalizing-github-codespaces-for-your-account#dotfiles  
- https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/adding-a-dev-container-configuration/introduction-to-dev-containers


[^1]: House - [/notes/house](/notes/house)
[^2]: Lisa - [/docs/computers/lisa](/docs/computers/lisa)
[^3]: _Slow Thinking_ - https://davidawindham.com/slow-thinking/
[^4]: _Working with Visual Studio Code and Github on my iPad_ - [/posts/vscode-ipad](/posts/vscode-ipad)
[^5]: _Late Adopter_ - https://davidawindham.com/late-adopter/
[^6]: Github Codespaces - https://github.com/features/codespaces 
[^7]: Personalizing GitHub Codespaces - https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-your-user-preferences/personalizing-github-codespaces-for-your-account#dotfiles  
[^8]: Creating a custom dev container configuration - https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/setting-up-your-project-for-codespaces/adding-a-dev-container-configuration/introduction-to-dev-containers
[^9]: Development Containers - https://containers.dev/implementors/json_reference/
[^10]: _The Simpsons Tapped Out_ - https://davidawindham.com/the-simpsons/