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A big week, with a couple of long-running efforts finally wrapping up: the Source Cooperative mirror is essentially complete now that we have direct write access, and the three-week Ceph resize has converged. Elsewhere, a slow-down in the genesis job server that looked like a garbage-collector problem turned out to be an HTTP handling bug.
A petabyte of TESSERA embeddings moves to Source Cooperative, and Taposaur's GROBID metadata index and capability-based downloader take shape for Evidence TAP, while Eio gets some native Windows support.
Thomas reported that ocaml-multicore/eio PRs randomly fail on ocurrent/ocaml-ci with a strange error in the documentation tests.
The main threads: making day10 a native OCluster job type, porting opam-health-check to use day10, keeping the CI dashboards ahead of both a scraper farm and the opam 2.6 alpha, and a lot of Tessera. New v2 “student” models, the v1.1 mirror to Source Cooperative continues, and diagonal banding in the Amazon mosaic.
An OpenUK openness interview, prototyping the Evidence TAP site with exe.dev, Windows eio support finds a user in Forester, and a new grant for optimising ranger patrols.
OCaml is a pragmatic functional language: type-level tricks for safe code, careful buffer allocation for fast code. A scratch buffer in ocaml-wire raced under OCaml 5 domains; memtrace and ThreadSanitizer show both sides.
Porting Tailwind to OCaml needed a CSS parser. The parser grew a typed AST, and a structural diff and a minifier fell out of it. Cascade 1.0.0 is that toolkit, and it turns out to be competitive with the minifiers people actually use.
