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A month of Elisp

23 Apr 2026

Tim McGilchrist

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Prefetch opam files for day10 –fork

Last month, I wrote a walkthrough on using mtelvers/day10 and while stuck in traffic yesterday, I was thinking about all those individual opam files which are read for every solve.

21 Apr 2026

Marc Elvers

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Tailwind Without Node

A pure OCaml implementation of Tailwind CSS v4, matching the reference binary byte for byte. Drops the Node dependency from my OCaml web stack, and the same library compiles the classes in your browser via js_of_ocaml.

21 Apr 2026

Thomas Gazagnaire

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ocgtk preview1 now on opam

ocgtk, a set of GTK4 bindings for OCaml, is now available on opam as preview1 release

21 Apr 2026

Chris Armstrong

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.plan-26-16: Chennai, Cambridge, Belfast: a week on the wing

A week of hops between Chennai, Cambridge and Belfast for the FP Launchpad takeoff at IIT Madras, a surprise Publication of the Year at the Cambridge Ring Hall of Fame, meeting the VC on the upcoming Rokos School of Governance, mirroring half a petabyte of TESSERA tiles and hacking on oi

19 Apr 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Building a STAC server to avoid scanning 3.8 million tiles

The GeoTessera project produces 128-channel geospatial embeddings from Sentinel satellite imagery. The dataset is tiled at 0.1-degree resolution across the globe, covering 9 years and comprising roughly 3.8 million tiles, each containing embeddings and scale-factor files.

17 Apr 2026

Marc Elvers

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Day10: local development builds

My typical OCaml development workflow starts with git clone ..., then opam switch create . 5.4.1 --deps-only followed by dune build. This creates a local _opam directory containing the compiler and all dependencies. It works well, but the _opam directories add up, and the build takes time.

17 Apr 2026

Marc Elvers

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VSCode Walkthrough: Installing OCaml in 1 Click

We have created a VSCode walkthrough guiding users through installing OCaml with opam.

16 Apr 2026

Tarides

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