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Scraping opam-repo-ci to a standstill

Jan reported that opam-repo-ci, opam.ci.ocaml.org, had become unresponsive.

16 Jun 2026

Marc Elvers

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Docker 29 manifest list

On the base image builder, we have recently seen a significant increase in the number of times we hit the Docker rate limits on manifest pushes. Most of these work on the second attempt, but this week, a new class of permanent manifest push failures has emerged.

16 Jun 2026

Marc Elvers

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Using OxCaml to implement type-safe reference counting between OCaml and Python

Jane Street is known for being an OCaml shop, but for years now Python has been our second major programming language, acting as the primary tool for data an...

15 Jun 2026

Jane Street Tech Blog

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Language integrated LLMs as an OCaml function

Using a local DeepSeek model as an ordinary OCaml library and building sandboxed agents from simple primitives

14 Jun 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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.plan-26-24: Apparently a professor now; still debugging io_uring at midnight

Made professor at Cambridge, shipped TESSERA v1.1, bound a local DeepSeek into OCaml after Fable cut out, and filled the gaps in io_uring and Eio.

14 Jun 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Tessera v1.1 released, with smoother and temporally stable embeddings

TESSERA v1.1 is a drop-in retrained model that fixes the tiling artefacts of v1.0, with embeddings now being served from AWS S3 and model weights up on Hugging Face.

12 Jun 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Removing HCS containers

The Windows workers in the windows-x86_64 pool have a habit of quietly falling off the cluster. The ocluster-worker service is still RUNNING, but the scheduler lists the worker as disconnected.

10 Jun 2026

Marc Elvers

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ocgtk development update: June 2026

Development update for ocgtk (a set of GTK4 bindings for OCaml), including upcoming support for signals and interfaces, expanded GLib type coverage, and packaging improvements to support other operating systems.

10 Jun 2026

Chris Armstrong

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