mise-en-place

Everything should be rewritten in rust. Or so I'm told by all the vibe coders. mise is a dev tool manager that is super handy. I currently use it to manage my dev projects. So the context of this article is my wsl ubuntu 24.04 instance.

Give the mise project a like on github: jdx/mise

Need a certain node version?

mise install node@20.0.0
mise use node

Handy. But also you'll notice that the directory you ran that in now has a mise.toml file. This is because mise installs but does not load the package. Meaning, only the current folder and it's sub dirs have access to the node version you specified. Which is way handier than global installs.

It can also manage env vars and define tasks, which again is super handy. So my advice to you is to take 10-15 minutes out of your day and learn about this tool of tools. It will save you some time. That is before the ai overlords remove your ability to brain code, or brian code as I call it.

The only downside of this tool is I keep typing mist. So I'll probably have to vibe code a rewrite in zig…