_Great_ Northern; _Great_er Anglia; _Great_ Western Railway; Thames_link_ … all ironies of naming 🤔
06.02.2026 09:11
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_Great_ Northern; _Great_er Anglia; _Great_ Western Railway; Thames_link_ … all ironies of naming 🤔
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...; remember to follow the guidelines in github.com/ocaml/ocaml/.... Details on the original investigation in www.dra27.uk/blog/platfor...
Claude Code has committed in trunk OCaml! With great power comes great responsibility, and all that...
Fantastic special series of episodes of @timharford.ft.com and co’s More or Less occupying the BBC Radio 4 9am slot *every day* this week
I was implicitly referred to as a “hoary greybeard” the other day… my son just innocently asked how long I’ve worked on/in OCaml and I realised the answer is half my life 👴🏻 #old #greybeard
It’s merged!! 🥳🥳🥳
Of course, only have a paper ticket at all because apparently issuing an electronic ticket which can work both mainline station barriers and London Underground barriers is a feat engineering well beyond our national infrastructure…
Haven’t had to use a paper train ticket in a looong time, and was somewhat bemused to see the machine list that it would be printing two seat reservations. I am duly sat in my first non-specific seat of the day. Nice paper-saving there, @greateranglia.bsky.social!
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☺️ There’s an eleventh-hour technical stall with a test harness for the second one (found by a Windows runner, but it’s not a Windows-specific issue!), but it should be good to go on Monday! 🥳
There are some minor corrections to be made in each branch, but Relocatable OCaml has passed its defence!
Yes, I very much agree!
Being British, I’m of course able to read this both negatively and positively 🫢 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4585...
Unsure whether to be more shocked by the discovery that there will be 10 current/former lay clerks singing at this morning’s mass at Westminster Cathedral (first time for a decade?) or that they’ve completely renovated the 100 year old song school toilets!
Quite an extreme case of rewrite-it-in-Rust… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Actually, dune package management is then able to stop doing anything special for the compiler - it becomes possible for Dune’s cache to cache the build instead (which was tested with a much earlier build back in March IIRC). So Dune still “builds” the compiler multiple times - but using the cache
Discuss announcement at discuss.ocaml.org/t/17253; “overview” PR at github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...; some additional pontifications at www.dra27.uk/blog/platfor...
3 years since I finalised the demo of it for the OCaml Workshop in Ljubljana, Relocatable OCaml is finally submitted for review! 🥳🍾🎊
Currently dotting ‘i’s and crossing ‘t’s and therefore wishing I’d used fewer ‘i’s and ‘t’s in my code (also, when I did I start handwriting code?? 🤔) #relocatable #ocaml
Reeling in shock and awe at just how simple and fast live-moving VM storage is in Hyper-V #scarred-by-esxi
Wonders how much water Apple could save each year by having Apple Mail offer to reduce the size of photos being emailed from an iPad in the same way as it does on an iPhone? 🤔🧐🤫
Remembering the grandfather who could not forgive so that hopefully we might learn from it #VJ80
“I do not know whether there is anything peculiarly exciting in the air of this particular part of Hertfordshire, but the number of engagements that go on seems to me considerably above the proper average that statistics have laid down for our guidance.”
Good old Oscar 🤣
Congratulations to Apple for anticlimax of the month with Apple “Intelligence”. In a metaphor for the age, seems all the time has been spent on the animations and hype and not a lot on it actually doing anything 🤷🏻♂️ #unabletosummarisethismessage
Yet another small OCaml/OxCaml diff has been squished! Polymorphic parameters has just gotten merged upstream:
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...
There's more to go (include functor, for example: github.com/ocaml/RFCs/p...), but it's nice to see more progress in this space.
