Your dotfiles are software: one bootstrap for the whole workstation (2026)

## Spark

From the 2026-06-07 digest. A six-days-active week pulling Docker CE, VS Code, the devcontainer CLI, pre-commit, vim/EDITOR, and a pinned nvm Node under the chezmoi bootstrap, plus investigating what's left to migrate off Home Manager.

## Why it could be interesting

The activity is a tool migration; the claim is that a workstation config is *software* with a supply chain, and it deserves reproducible install, auto-update, and a migration plan rather than hand-rolled setup. Home Manager → chezmoi is the worked example for the boundary between bootstrap-managed and deliberately-manual.

## Open questions

- [ ] Fits the "How I X (2026)" series convention (year-stamped, cadence ties to substantive change)?
- [ ] Where's the line between bootstrap-managed and left-manual, and why?
- [ ] Is this the instance-level companion to #128 (personal repos as a fleet), or do they collapse into one post?

## Source material

- https://github.com/alunduil/alunduil-chezmoi/issues/276 — investigate Home Manager config for conversion (closed)
- https://github.com/alunduil/alunduil-chezmoi/pull/251 (Docker CE) / #304 (VS Code) / #282 (devcontainer CLI) / #307 (vim) / #268 (nvm Node) — all merged
- Related existing idea: #128