I have $HOME/src for projects that are executables and $HOME/lib for ones that are libraries/dependancies/etc

MLVWM is a classic mac window manager for X11

https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm

Also you will need

https://github.com/morgant/mlvwmrc

Also bonus: Mac OS 8 startup for Plymouth

https://github.com/vladkorotnev/System8

I have heard good things about kdenlive. Don’t do what I do and do everything in blender

The Linux mint live installer comes with the bcmwl-kernel-source package which will allow you to install it. It worked on my 2013 MacBook Pro which uses a Broadcom chip

Sounds like you are trying to develop a MOO, i think you might find this interesting

Also if you wanted to develop one yourself I did a project a long time ago based on [https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896](this guide for developing a language in Racket lisp to generate text adventure games) which might fit the requirements

I use hugo, it’s a fast lightweight static site generator written in go

I think that the blagh app for werc might also work, it’s written in rc shell