Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more - Remote Ruby Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues.&nbsp...

Really enjoyed being a guest on Remote Ruby chatting about mise/portable ruby and my other dev tools

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morge : when slop finds its way into production

Haven’t actually tried it on a real box but I got the ci suite to run on windows

if it's been a while since you've checked out pitchfork.jdx.dev or hk.jdx.dev, give them another go. They've gone through a bunch of enhancements in recent weeks/months.

Release v2026.2.0: Lockfiles Graduate, Editor Arrives · jdx/mise This release marks a significant milestone: lockfiles are now stable and no longer require an experimental flag. After extensive testing and refinement, lockfiles are ready for production use, givi...

Getting Claude to start writing release notes is one of the best decisions I’ve made lately github.com/jdx/mise/rel...

that's right Claude

Yeah I think a different CLI was the right call. It all came together pretty easily not shoehorning this into mise

I made a secret manager github.com/jdx/fnox

usage+claude (usage.jdx.dev) is truly insane. I can take any CLI and super-charge it with completions in an hour what would've taken me months before. (also a hint at my latest side-quest)

Introducing Monorepo Tasks · jdx mise · Discussion #6564 We're excited to announce Monorepo Tasks, a powerful new feature that brings first-class monorepo support to mise tasks! 🚀 What is it? Monorepo Tasks allows you to manage tasks across multiple proj...

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Yeah I use fish myself so you can definitely expect strong support there

That was such an impressive talk! Thank you so much!

same here. I don't really like using mise for rust either—rustup is just too good

would love to be on the show sometime!

I like graphite and all, but this lax security bugs the crap outta me

if you haven't seen it the new http backend might be useful for that use-case. It's designed for making it easier to integrate internally-built tarballs without needing a plugin.

mise is the obvious place I would like to use it but I know the community would love to see an effort like IndyGreg and now astral with portable pythons: github.com/astral-sh/py...

If there was a similar effort for ruby it could benefit all the ruby version managers.

I haven't tried building portable rubies but there seems to have been nascent attempts people have had in the past for it but nothing seems to maintained. The homebrew one notably states in the readme it isn't intended for general use. It's a problem I don't see anyone working on.

is your precompiling specific to hatchbox? there's definitely a big appetite out there for general purpose prebuilt rubies!

The Disneyland map has a typo in it

spf13/viper may be the only good thing about building CLIs in Go, but damn is it good.

GitHub - amber-lang/amber: 💎 Amber the programming language compiled to Bash 💎 Amber the programming language compiled to Bash. Contribute to amber-lang/amber development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I just learned about Unix `sponge` and can’t wait to cat/grep/sed my next file in place

idiomatic versions default disabled · jdx mise · Discussion #4345 I am starting to feel that idiomatic versions should default to disabled and enabled via settings for specific tools. I think back when mise started defaulting to enabled made sense because each la...

I intend to change this behavior github.com/jdx/mise/dis...

Mise does officially support pnpm on windows

Release v0.5.0 · jdx/hk first "early beta" release This is the first release that I think is ready for people to start using in real projects. I believe it has all the major features that a 1.0 release would need. Expect ...

I'm calling this the first "early beta" of hk: github.com/jdx/hk/relea...

I'd be an idiot if I gave out any kind of date here but I can definitely say this project has piqued my interest a lot lately. The way I'm handling parallel lints in hk I am not aware of anyone having done before.

GitHub - jdx/hk: git hook and pre-commit lint manager git hook and pre-commit lint manager. Contribute to jdx/hk development by creating an account on GitHub.

good news and bad news on the hk front. The good news is I have loads of ideas on parallelism that should improve linting performance in different situations even more. The bad news is it's pushed v1 out a bit more.

feat: Install latest nominated zig from https://machengine.org/zig/index.json by tamadamas · Pull Request #4451 · jdx/mise It installs latest nominated zig version from machengine mise use zig@ref:mach-latest I see it requires some improvements over mise ls-remote zig to show nightly versions. We also need to install ...

a mise contributor not only added tests to the PR but _windows_ tests: github.com/jdx/mise/pul...

color me impressed.