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Today, looking at my OxCaml inference engine, I wanted to see whether day10 build . could build an OxCaml project.

The base image builder has a growing number of failed builds; it’s time to address these.

I’ve taken a few days off, and while I’ve been travelling, I’ve been working on a personal project with Claude. I’ve used Claude Code for the first time, which is a much more powerful experience than using claude.ai as Claude can apply changes to the code and use your build tools directly to quickly iterate on a problem. In another first, I used js_of_ocaml, which has been awesome.

In my OCaml project, I’d like to abstract away the details of running containers into specific modules based on the OS. Currently, I have working container setups for Windows and Linux, and I’ve haphazardly peppered if Sys.win32 then where I need differentiation, but this is OCaml, so let us use functors!

On the eve of the release of opam 2.4, is it time to stop testing with opam < 2.2?

Arthur mentioned that it would be great to know which packages build successfully with OxCaml and which don’t.

Patrick reported issues with OCaml-CI running tests on ocaml-ppx.

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.

For some time, we have had issues on Ubuntu Noble when extracting tar files within Docker containers. See ocaml/infrastructure#121. This is only an issue on exotic architectures like RISCV and PPC64LE.