I wrote up the two days I lost releasing a seventeen-crate workspace to crates.io as a war story, wrong turns and all. This is the other half: the field guide, so you don’t have to lose the same two days. release-plz is …
Let me confess a small heresy first, because it’s the reason any of this happened. After a career spent as a branching man, gitflow, gitlabflow, a tidy develop branch and a careful dance of merges, I’ve come round to …
There’s a special kind of CI job that everyone on a team quietly learns to ignore: the one marked allow_failure: true. It runs, it goes red, the pipeline goes green anyway, and after the third time you stop looking at …
go-tool-base’s VCS support has two halves that get confused for one. One half talks to forge APIs (GitHub, GitLab) for releases and pull requests. The other talks to the .git directory on disk: clone, history, diff, …
--output json worked everywhere. On the top-level command, on every ordinary subcommand, wherever the user fancied putting it. Then it stopped working in exactly one place, and of course it was the subcommand I’d been …
A while ago I worked out where a CLI should keep your API key: env var, OS keychain, or, grudgingly, a literal in the config file. That answers where the secret lives. It says nothing about what happens to it once it’s …
A line in a log file that no parser would touch. Not a wrong value, not a missing field. Half of one telemetry event spliced into the middle of another, like two people typing into the same text box at once. Which, it …
If your CLI tool talks to an AI model, you don’t want to hard-wire one vendor. So you reach for a single client interface over several providers, which is the right call. The trap is the next step: build that interface …
In the porting post I said go-tool-base’s error handler was one of the bits that didn’t survive the move to Rust, and promised to come back to it. Here’s the come-back. The short version is that Rust hands you, for free, …
go-tool-base has feature flags: switches that decide which built-in commands are live in a given run. rust-tool-base has those too. But it also has a second, completely separate kind of flag, and the difference between …
