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Introducing unpac, a tool that unifies git and package management into a single workflow where all code dependencies live in one repository as trackable branches.

Materialising opam metadata into git submodules and monorepos, enabling cross-cutting fixes and unified odoc3 documentation across dozens of OCaml libraries.

Recently, I have been using my Pi Zero (armv6), which has reminded me that OCaml 5 dropped native 32-bit support, and I wondered what it would take to reinstate it.

I’ve been doing battle the last few days with Docker, and in particular trying to persuade BuildKit to do what I wanted. I find Docker leans towards being a deployment tool, rather than a development tool which is to say that it’s exceedingly useful for both, but when I encounter problems trying to persuade it to do what I’m after for development, it tends to feel I’m not using it for the purpose for which it was intended.

This week was a grant application, build systems, and code review - which it turns out is somewhere in the Amazon.

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.

Self-host source code with Tangled on Bluesky for decentralized Git repositories.