Maya Editor
A small native macOS editor with a real terminal inside it. No Electron, no web views — Swift, SwiftUI and a single dependency. With four projects open, a terminal in each and a few files on top, it sits at 150–250 MB of memory, not a gigabyte. Plus git, Kubernetes, databases and issue boards: the things you would otherwise leave the window for several times an hour.
zsh -l on an actual PTY, not an imitation. The process
survives switching tabs, and "is something running in there?" is
answered by the PTY rather than guessed.
⇧⌘R opens a new tab straight into claude.
Find a file with a double ⇧⇧ — fuzzy over the project's paths, no index (⌘P works too). Full text through ripgrep on ⇧⌘F, regular expressions included. Twenty languages highlighted without a parser — half a megabyte colours in eighty milliseconds.
The Changes pane: tick the files, write the message, commit. It commits exactly the paths you ticked and leaves the index alone. Plus blame, a diff as a tab, and change marks in the gutter.
When an agent rewrites a file under you, an untouched buffer quietly picks up the new version with your cursor and scroll intact. With unsaved changes nothing is overwritten and the choice stays yours.
Pods, a shell into a pod, tailing logs, browsing a pod's files, reading
and editing Secrets and ConfigMaps. It runs on your own
kubectl and kubeconfig — no bespoke client, no second
login, the same contexts as your terminal. You just don't have to type
it. A password never passes through process arguments, and saving sends
resourceVersion back, so you cannot overwrite someone
else's change.
A local database from docker-compose.yml opens on a click —
nothing to fill in. The service and the password come from
docker compose config, so ${VAR}, override
files and ports are Docker's problem, not yours. Same in Kubernetes:
the panel owns the port-forward tunnel itself.
⌘↵ runs the statement under the cursor; only the destructive
ones ask first. Which secrets and
keys it reads is written down.
Columns, dragging cards, a card with labels, assignees, comments and images — and the board is another tab of the project, not another window. Over GitHub Projects and Trello.
Projects are the outer tabs, files and terminals the inner ones.
⌃⌘] switches project, ⇧⌘] switches tab. Each
project keeps its own colour and emoji in .maya/project.json.
psql and mysql — no wire protocol of our own.
kubectl is still doing the work underneath — you just aren't typing it.
LSP, autocomplete, a debugger, extensions, collaboration, remote development, a build system. That is not a list of things not done yet — it is a decision. You already know the editor that does all of it; this one is small on purpose.
Nobody yet. The Company tier on GitHub Sponsors puts a logo and a link right here — where people deciding about the editor will see it.
After downloading you sign in through GitHub and it runs for 30 days. The trial is counted on the server against your GitHub account, so reinstalling will not reset it — and it will not run down before you launch the app either.
It keeps running for anyone sponsoring mesour on GitHub. Private sponsorships work too — the question is asked with your own token.
The app has no password field and must not have one. The whole sign-in runs at GitHub; only a signed licence comes back.
A licence is good for a week without a network. It is a deliberate trade: a longer window would mean a cancelled sponsorship taking longer to run out.