Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks

• get platform by the environment variable $OSTYPE
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/394230/how-to-detect-the-os-from-a-bash-script

Having your dotfiles on every machine

• I decided on a workflow based on tools i already used:
  • Synchronisation based on syncthing
  • a dotfiles folder under git with a simple symlinking shellscript