Going Full Time on Open Source

Going Full Time on Open SourceApril 23, 2026 4-minute readFor the last several years, I’ve been building and maintaining developer tools in my spare time, chiefly mise.What started as a simple rewrite of asdf in Rust has become an incredibly successful local dev manager. mise now has 27k+ stars on GitHub and is the 10th most downloaded Homebrew formula. In fact, roughly 1% of users typing brew install are running brew install mise.I’ve also watched mise show up in places I never expected, including OpenAI Codex Universal and NVIDIA OpenShell.Alongside it I maintain aube (the newest of the bunch, which I’m really excited about), hk (git hook runner), pitchfork (process supervisor), fnox (secrets), usage, and a handful of smaller tools.That has been incredibly rewarding.

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