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• 2026-06-03

  Adding Debian — and what it weighs

  [yoe] now builds Debian images alongside Alpine. Each backend is a real tradeoff — Debian brings a far larger package catalog, Alpine a much smaller and faster image — measured side by side on the same target.

• 2026-05-29

  Fast Binary Packages from the APK Index

  [yoe] used to wrap Alpine packages as thousands of generated files. It now parses the APK index directly and constructs virtual units on demand — only for the packages an image actually uses.

• 2026-05-29

  Qt Support in [yoe]

  Qt now builds and runs under [yoe]. The interesting part isn't Qt itself — it's that the toolkit comes from Alpine binaries wrapped as units, and the whole graphical loop runs in QEMU on your workstation.

• 2026-05-28

  [yoe] Is Now Self-Hosting

  The build system can build itself — boot a [yoe] image, run [yoe] on it, and build another image inside. The payoff is native ARM64 builds on a Raspberry Pi 5.

• 2026-05-21

  Running [yoe] on a Beagle Play

  The build system now boots a TI AM625 board through a four-stage bootloader — and Claude wrote most of the BSP from a single prompt.

• 2026-05-11

  What a Modern Embedded Linux Build System Could Look Like

  Seven weeks in: where [yoe] stands on productivity, complex workloads, and scaling to anything.