Everything in place

Not long ago I wrote about my search for a process (as in daemons) management tool to manage webservers, build watch processes, etc. across many different projects. I was still undecided at that point, but have since landed on Pitchfork. It does a bit more than I need and it is well-maintained. See that previous post for a discussion of that and other options that I considered.

Having settled on Pitchfork for process management, I next needed to choose a task runner. The contenders were: make, just, mise, and go-task/task. I’m not going to do a detailed breakdown, but here’s a post from another site that does. It turns out I came to the same decision they did, for mostly the same reasons. The winner was Mise.

You may notice that both tools, Pitchfork and Mise, come from the same developer. This is a bit of a risk. If the developer (Jeff Dickey) decides they’re no longer interested in maintaining these projects, then I’m suddenly looking for two tool replacements instead of one. But right now, looking at Jeff’s bio, income from his sponsors, support from his employer, etc., I’m really not too concerned.

I picked the top 19 most active repos that I have and migrated all of them to Pitchfork and Mise. Having that consistency across repos has made context switching much easier. It’s been great so far.

Around the same time, I also began using a few new skills. In addition to Pitchfork and Mise skills, I added a markdown formatter and my own writing skill. The writing skill comes with an LLM cliche linter tool as well. During the same migration, I ran the markdown formatter over all my READMEs, so now they’re easier for me to scan and find things in too.

I’ll add just a bit of brutal honesty here at the end in case you made it this far. Whenever I have a little extra time, or I’m just procrastinating on something, I tend to either a) tidy up, or b) try to improve the process. That was exactly the inspiration for this migration. Cheers!