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 2026 July 1

Installing binaries directly from GitHub releases with mise
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  Nate Berkopec's [Four-line Fridays newsletter](https://speedshop.co) turned me on to [mise](https://mise.jdx.dev/) for installing global and project-specific tools.

Mise is dotfile-friendly and fast! If something isn't in the mise registry directly, I'll install via mise's ability to use npm, pypi, or cargo when available.

Even better, I learned that I can install binaries directly from GitHub releases with mise, bypassing package manager and eliminating the need for Node, Python, or Rustup toolchain to be present. I recently did this for pls, Render, and pup!

```bash
mise use -g github:DataDog/pup@latest
mise use -g github:pls-rs/pls@latest[prerelease=true]
mise use -g github:render-oss/cli@latest

```

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