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Weird Windows container version numbers

Running ver in a Windows container doesn’t report the version number that you expect.

05 May 2026

Marc Elvers

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Work distribution with OCluster

We use OCluster to manage the build cluster for the CI services backing OCaml-CI and opam-repo-ci. However, it is a general-purpose tool and isn’t tied to being a build system; it can distribute any jobs across multiple worker machines.

09 Mar 2026

Marc Elvers

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.plan-26-07: Storage, Lego, Echo, and the IUCN

Growing the Ceph cluster for TESSERA embeddings, a Lego brainstorming session for the Evidence TAP, hosting Echo Labs from ARIA, and Shane's IUCN Red List seminar.

15 Feb 2026

Anil Madhavapeddy's Blog

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Getting Claude to complete the spec

With Claude Code, perhaps we are now at the point where the test suite is actually more valuable than the code itself.

28 Jan 2026

Marc Elvers

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Keeping your branch up-to-date

My Arm32 branch will quickly go stale and will need to be rebased and tested. Can GitHub Actions do that for me automatically?

01 Dec 2025

Marc Elvers

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Apache Parquet Files

If you haven’t discovered the Apache Parquet file format, allow me to introduce it along with ClickHouse.

17 Sep 2025

Marc Elvers

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opam repo ci job timeouts

It’s Tuesday morning, and virtually all opam repo ci jobs are failing with timeouts. This comes at a critical time as these are the first jobs following the update of ocurrent/ocaml-version noted on 24th March.

04 Apr 2025

Marc Elvers

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