diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 8190663..1bace0f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ on:
   pull_request:
   push:
     tags:
-      - "**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*"
+      - '**[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+*'
 
 jobs:
   # Run 'cargo dist plan' (or host) to determine what tasks we need to do
@@ -89,42 +89,59 @@ jobs:
   # Build and packages all the platform-specific things
   build-local-artifacts:
     name: build-local-artifacts (${{ join(matrix.targets, ', ') }})
+    # Let the initial task tell us to not run (currently very blunt)
     needs:
       - plan
     if: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix.include != null && (needs.plan.outputs.publishing == 'true' || fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.pr_run_mode == 'upload') }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
+      # Target platforms/runners are computed by cargo-dist in create-release.
+      # Each member of the matrix has the following arguments:
+      #
+      # - runner: the github runner
+      # - dist-args: cli flags to pass to cargo dist
+      # - install-dist: expression to run to install cargo-dist on the runner
+      #
+      # Typically there will be:
+      # - 1 "global" task that builds universal installers
+      # - N "local" tasks that build each platform's binaries and platform-specific installers
       matrix: ${{ fromJson(needs.plan.outputs.val).ci.github.artifacts_matrix }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
-    container:
-      image: alpine:latest
-      options: --user root
     env:
       GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       BUILD_MANIFEST_NAME: target/distrib/${{ join(matrix.targets, '-') }}-dist-manifest.json
     steps:
-      - name: Install dependencies
+      - name: enable windows longpaths
         run: |
-          apk add --no-cache git curl build-base musl-dev openssl-dev
+          git config --global core.longpaths true
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
       - name: Install cargo-dist
         run: ${{ matrix.install_dist }}
+      # Get the dist-manifest
       - name: Fetch local artifacts
         uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
         with:
           pattern: artifacts-*
           path: target/distrib/
           merge-multiple: true
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          ${{ matrix.packages_install }}
       - name: Build artifacts
         run: |
+          # Actually do builds and make zips and whatnot
           cargo dist build ${{ needs.plan.outputs.tag-flag }} --print=linkage --output-format=json ${{ matrix.dist_args }} > dist-manifest.json
           echo "cargo dist ran successfully"
       - id: cargo-dist
         name: Post-build
-        shell: sh
+        # We force bash here just because github makes it really hard to get values up
+        # to "real" actions without writing to env-vars, and writing to env-vars has
+        # inconsistent syntax between shell and powershell.
+        shell: bash
         run: |
+          # Parse out what we just built and upload it to scratch storage
           echo "paths<<EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           jq --raw-output ".upload_files[]" dist-manifest.json >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           echo "EOF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8bf4b90..b4c4ed3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ dirs = "5.0.1"
 inherits = "release"
 lto = "thin"
 
-
 # Config for 'cargo dist'
 [workspace.metadata.dist]
 # The preferred cargo-dist version to use in CI (Cargo.toml SemVer syntax)
@@ -59,13 +58,7 @@ installers = ["shell", "homebrew"]
 # A GitHub repo to push Homebrew formulas to
 tap = "guilhermeprokisch/homebrew-smd"
 # Target platforms to build apps for (Rust target-triple syntax)
-targets = [
-  "aarch64-apple-darwin",
-  "x86_64-apple-darwin",
-  "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
-  "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl",
-  "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc",
-]
+targets = ["aarch64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-apple-darwin", "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu", "x86_64-unknown-linux-musl", "x86_64-pc-windows-msvc"]
 # Path that installers should place binaries in
 install-path = "CARGO_HOME"
 # Publish jobs to run in CI