# Jeff Dickey on Mise, Precompiled Rubies, and much more

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Podcast: [Remote Ruby](https://stenobird.com/podcast/remote-ruby-402505)
Published: 2026-03-06T13:00:00+00:00
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Chris, Andrew, and David welcome special guest Jeff Dickey (jdx), creator of mise, discussing his background rewriting the Heroku CLI from Ruby to Node due to Ruby distribution/sandboxing issues. The conversation digs into why language CLIs are hard to distribute, the tradeoffs between shims vs PATH-based version switching, why tasks can be the “clean” solution, and Jeff’s Rust-first tooling philosophy. They also dive into his other projects: usage (CLI docs/completions), Pitchfork (dev...

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