Man, that's a weird looking "f" in the font. Why does it have a tail? Feels like someone is trying to inject a company logo/function symbol into the otherwise normal-looking characters.
Going Full Time on Open Source
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#13We just started exploring Mise as a (much) simpler alternative to Nix + Bazel for a polyglot monorepo. One of my concerns was about how well maintained Mise would be given that it's mostly a single maintainer, so I think this is good news in that respect. Good luck to Jeff!
Devenv is "mise but nix" and is very good. It is currently undergoing a big migration though, so still a few rough edges. I highly recommend checking it out if you find yourself wanting nix at all.
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#14We just started exploring Mise as a (much) simpler alternative to Nix + Bazel for a polyglot monorepo. One of my concerns was about how well maintained Mise would be given that it's mostly a single maintainer, so I think this is good news in that respect. Good luck to Jeff!
Likewise looking to adopt mise at work, have a PR nearly there and especially with all the LLM/skills CLIs, mise looks well positioned. I've been using it for a long time personally and is a delight to work with.
Curious given polyglot monorepo and bazel, does mise have something that solves the build graph/caching stuff that IIUC comes with Bazel or is that something that's not needed for the monorepo you help maintain?
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#15Man, that's a weird looking "f" in the font. Why does it have a tail? Feels like someone is trying to inject a company logo/function symbol into the otherwise normal-looking characters.
> So I left Figma to work on these full time.
The Mise website makes way more sense to me now. I suppose some artistic license is justified when you're at the cutting-edge of the CLI aesthetic and what not.
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#16We just started exploring Mise as a (much) simpler alternative to Nix + Bazel for a polyglot monorepo. One of my concerns was about how well maintained Mise would be given that it's mostly a single maintainer, so I think this is good news in that respect. Good luck to Jeff!
Likewise looking to adopt mise at work, have a PR nearly there and especially with all the LLM/skills CLIs, mise looks well positioned. I've been using it for a long time personally and is a delight to work with. Curious given polyglot monorepo and bazel, does mise have something that solves the build graph/caching stuff that IIUC comes with Bazel or is that something that's not needed for the monorepo you help maint…
Yeah, Mise has caching: https://mise.jdx.dev/cache-behavior.html
I'm a massive fan of Wireit and its caching behavior, so I'm looking for something to live up to that. I have more testing to do. I think Mise defaults to mtime-keyed cache but has an option for content hashing, which it what Wireit uses and makes it quick to undo a change and get a cache hit.
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#17I don't know what to call this - a "freelancer launch"? It is the best executed one I've seen, though. Maybe even a black-mark on OSS if it does not go well.
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#18I don't know what to call this - a "freelancer launch"? It is the best executed one I've seen, though. Maybe even a black-mark on OSS if it does not go well.
> Maybe even a black-mark on OSS if it does not go well.
No, because realistically, this is the opposite of what corporations want. If a project is only being maintained by one or two people, that’s a risk, pure and simple. So you look somewhere else for something that matches your needs, with a more sustainable story.
Nothing against the author, but what he’s describing is a business model - just one that’s likely to bring in a negligible amount of money. This is less about open source and more about what kinds of projects society is willing to pay people to work on.
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#1910th most downloaded Homebrew formula and the maintainer makes ~$600 / month. Not very encouraging for people who are thinking to follow the same path…