I have found `mise` to be a pretty good way to install tooling https://github.com/cybernetics/mise-en-place

This is an interesting concept, how do editors like this fair for writing code though?

Immature, obviously. Far fewer person-hours of labor have been put in relative to what you use all the time. But I find it worthwhile to get off the constant treadmill of new versions with features I don't care about. Cutting down on complexity there creates headroom for me or you to try out new approaches I or you might care more about.

My most common development environments these days:

* A live-programming infinite surface of definitions that works well on a big screen: https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love Has minimal syntax highlighting for just Lua comments and strings.

* An environment that lets me add hyperlinks, graphics and box-and-arrow diagrams in addition to code. Also works on mobile devices. Examples: https://akkartik.itch.io/sokoban, https://akkartik.name/post/2025-03-08-devlog, https://akkartik.name/post/2025-05-12-devlog

The second set of apps are built using the first approach.

Reminds me of Eskil's apps way back when https://www.quelsolaar.com/love/development.html

The little animation that highlights what section you are reading currently is beautiful

This is a feature of Fumadocs that the site uses!

[1] https://fumadocs.dev/

What animation? I actually do not see it.

"font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji";"

from the css so odds are it's whatever your browser or OS's default sans font is, in my case it's SF Pro which is an Apple font though it may vary if you use a non Apple device.

A static site generation library in Swift.

For me Deno as a technology is great, the development of Fresh has been slow indeed however it is such a clean and effective way to write modern web applications. With KV built-in and deploy you don't really need to install anything other than the core fresh dependencies.

To clarify KV uses SQLite in development but FoundationDB when deployed to Deno Deploy.