For 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. It’s also become a lot of work. For a while, I could do this alongside a full-time job. But as mise has grown, that has become less and less realistic. I have not been able to keep up with PR review the way I want to.…