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A different way to interact with Claude

We’ve all been using Claude via the prompt, and some have even ventured into running claude --dangerously-skip-permissions in a nice sandbox like avsm/claude-ocaml-devcontainer.

18 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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Private repos in OCurrent

OCurrent has long wanted to access private repositories. You can achieve this by embedding a scoped PAT in the .git-credentials file, typically within the Docker container; however, this is untidy, to say the least! The approach presented works in cases where a GitHub app is used.

05 Dec 2025

Marc Elvers

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Borg Backup

Our PeerTube installation at watch.ocaml.org holds hundreds of videos we wouldn’t want to lose! It’s a VM hosted at Scaleway so the chances of a loss are pretty small, but having a second copy would give us extra reassurance. I’m going to use Borg Backup.

14 Jun 2025

Marc Elvers

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Up-to-Date Online Documentation

Into the Fire The OCaml ecosystem relies on various resources and infrastructure such as ocaml.org, OCaml Docker images, opam-repo-ci, that…

20 Oct 2022

Tarides

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