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Caveat Emptor
Development Diary
October 17, 2025

I was looking back on some of my old blog posts from 2021 earlier1, and I came across something that I thought bears repeating.

It was from this post, and the section I though was worth re-visiting was called “Caveat Emptor”.

It was about how my open source projects are often unfinished, and unpolished, and very much work in progress.

What I said then still applies today, and I’ll repeat it below.

  1. Which sounds a little bit narcissistic now that I say it out loud. Ah well - bite me. I fell into a rabbit hole ok, and it just so happens to be one of my own making. 

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Release Tools Tagging
Development Diary
October 14, 2025

After my last post, I thought a bit more about Release Tools, and decided that requiring a tag was definitely the right way to go, and over a couple of days last week I implemented it.

I also decided that it was a big enough change that I may as well call this Release Tools 4.0, and take the opportunity to clean up and remove some legacy code.

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September 26, 2025

My latest detour was to add an extra option to ReleaseTools, a command-line tool, written in Swift, that I made a few years ago.

Actually I’ve just checked, and I started it in 2019 🤯.

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