A fresh approach to managing common development tasks like running tests, checking code quality, or building documentation. Easily the most useful thing here.

Mold is heavily built around a few core ideas:

• Reusable, parametrized modules that can be included via URL
• Documenting project tasks in a discoverable way
• Reducing complexity of task execution
• Using the same commands locally, in CI/CD, and production

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A configuration language that's enjoyable by people and robots.

I dunno. Mostly just read the HCL explanation, but then throw in a paragraph about how I think HCL is kinda awkward sometimes.

Plus it's just not very eXtreme.

A modern, simplified porcelain for Git.

Git's UX kinda sucks a lot. It has an absurd amount of command overloading, inconsistency between commands arguments, overwhelming complexity, unpleasant defaults, etc. Milk aims to cut back on a lot of these issues and provide a more user-friendly interface to Git.

A cute lil programming language inspired by Lua.

A modern terminal text editor.

This aimed to separate the user-facing command / editing interface from the backend editor implementation. The approach was to ship a text editor that exposed its editing API as a Python module, but with no functionality configured by default. vx would source your ~/.vxrc.py file within the scope of the editor, which could then configure any keybindings, syntax highlighting, windows / panes, etc.

It got half-assed pretty hard, but it was fun. Anyway, check out xi because it seems to be an even better idea.