Going Full Time on Open Source: The Story of mise and Developer Tools
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thunderbong
25d ago· 4 min readenNews
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Summary
Jeff Dickey announces his transition to working full-time on open source developer tools, primarily mise (a local dev manager written in Rust that has grown from an asdf rewrite to 27k+ GitHub stars and the 10th most downloaded Homebrew formula). He also maintains other tools like aube and hk, and reflects on the journey from side project to sustainable open source work.
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mise now has 27k+ stars on GitHub and is the 10th most downloaded Homebrew formula.
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.
Jeff Dickey's personal website
