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Sabine would like to switch OCaml.org from using Plausible over to Posthog. The underlying reason for the move is that the self-hosted product from Posthog has more features than the equivalent from Plausible. Of particular interest is the heatmap feature to assess the number of visitors who finish the Tour of OCaml.
Following the setup of rosemary with FreeBSD 14 (with 20C/40T), I have paused spring and summer (which combined have 12C/24T) and rosemary is now handling all of the FreeBSD workload.
Still 🪀ing somewhat, but various nice things happened this week.
How to use 'labels' to provide helpful parse error messages
The log from an OBuilder job starts with the steps needed to reproduce the job locally. This boilerplate output assumes that all OBuilder jobs start from a Docker base image, but on some operating systems, such as FreeBSD and macOS, OBuilder uses ZFS base images. On OpenBSD and Windows, it uses QEMU images. The situation is further complicated when the issue only affects a specific architecture that may be unavailable to the user.
We were present at BOBKonf 2025, as speakers and attendees! Here's a brief report on our experiences in Berlin.
