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Updating OCaml CI systems to FreeBSD 14.3

The FreeBSD CI worker rosemary needs to be updated to FreeBSD 14.3.

07 Oct 2025

Marc Elvers

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One year at Ahrefs

I started working at Ahrefs one year ago. When I applied I had heard of them from OCaml’s discuss amongst other OCaml community spaces and…

06 Oct 2025

Ahrefs

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Attempting overlayfs with macFuse

It would be great if overlayFS or unionFS worked on macOS! Initially, I attempted to use DYLD_INTERPOSE, but I wasn’t able to intercept enough system calls to get it to work. However, macFuse provides a way to implement our own userspace file systems. Patrick previously wrote obuilder-fs, which implemented a per-user filesystem redirection. It would be interesting to extend this concept to provide an overlayfs-style implementation.

06 Oct 2025

Marc Elvers

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Mental Check: Reflecting on the OCaml Journey So Far

A reflection on my OCaml web development journey so far.

05 Oct 2025

Chukwuma Akunyili

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Ocsigen: A Full OCaml Framework for Websites and Apps

Discover the OCaml web development framework Ocsigen, from its origins to its many helpful features!

02 Oct 2025

Tarides

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File descriptors as integers considered harmful

Continuing the previous foray into file descriptors, and trying to remove Obj.magic both from ocaml-uring’s code itself, and from the recommended way for using it.

01 Oct 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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