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Notes from week 33

This week, six million Tessera S3 objects were renamed. ocaml-gdal was extended to handle vector formats. FreeBSD CI performance investigations and OCaml compiler updates. Further work on day10 and OCaml CI.

17 Aug 2026

Marc Elvers

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.plan-26-33: Zarro rides out and evidence papers pour in

TESSERA 1.0 is now fully available as Zarr with global RGB previews, a weather downscaling preprint, and Evidence TAP gets a public website with progress on the downloader and parser.

16 Aug 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Using Forester to turn Foundations of CS into interactive evergreen lectures

Porting the FoCS lecture notes to Forester, including transclusions and stable section URLs, and a live OCaml toplevel compiled into the browser.

16 Aug 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Notes from week 32

Git 2.55 broke opam repo add for all the 4.x base images, and ocaml.org was under scraper attack. On the Tessera side, the v1 dataset got converted to Zarr via Fargate, and there was further investigation into the banding correction.

10 Aug 2026

Marc Elvers

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.plan-26-32: Finally a use for serverless and found the Forester for the trees

GETMobile micro-NPU article and package calculus published, TESSERA embeddings conversion using Fargate Spot, and starting to shift to Forester for teaching.

09 Aug 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Updating to the OxCaml 5.2.0-minus39 opam packaging

How the OxCaml overlay's guard packages keep incompatible releases out, and how to contribute to it with your own packages.

08 Aug 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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