I regularly use poetry in order to isolate development environments as I'm putting applications together. I've been happy with it, and there are a number of methods that I've developed for using poetry in various environments. For production, there are a number of different mechanisms used by people in the …

This weekend, I had occasion to build a new python-based utility and leaned in to my existing poetry tooling in order to do so. While starting the new project, I wanted to take advantage of some gitlab automation I'd previously used on other projects, so I figured I'd document it …

Background Generally speaking, I refresh most of my systems pretty regularly, spurred on by security concerns, general hygeine, a desire to make sure the automation doesn't age out, and certificate expiration. Although I don't need to refersh systems due to certificate expiration, it has historically been the easiest indicator of …

Background As part of an ongoing effort to keep Cartographica up to date with recent changes in libraries that we compile from source, notably GDAL and Proj, I'm in the midst of a refresh of those subtrees in the frameworks that I build from them. Over the past few years …

As part of digging through my various problems with Xcode 14.3 (Feedback FB12154691, FB12154887, and some test case issues involving floating point math), I needed to install Xcode 14.2 to move my buildfarm backwards. Although this didn't enitrely fix the problem, it was an essential element of the …