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Opentrace

19 May 2025

Patrick Ferris' OCaml Blog

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The week that was - 2025 w20

This week consisted of a lot of spinning plates, which is unfortunate because it’s not something I’m very good at!

18 May 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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ZFS Replication with Ansible

Rather than using the agent-based approach proposed yesterday, it’s worth considering an Ansible-based solution instead.

16 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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OCaml Web Development: Essential Tools and Libraries in 2025

Are you curious about using OCaml for web development? We outline some of the biggest tools and libraries you'll want to check out!

15 May 2025

Tarides

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Opam Health Check with OxCaml

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

14 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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Ubuntu 24.04 runc issues with AppArmor

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

13 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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Posthog on OCaml.org

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.

12 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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Worker moves

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.

09 May 2025

Marc Elvers

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Try OxCaml

09 May 2025

Patrick Ferris' OCaml Blog

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