@talex5@mastodon.social

UK
Joined January 2010
Due to recent policy changes here, I'll be closing my Twitter account soon - I'm @talex5@mastodon.social if you want to continue following me.
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The video of my @icfp_conference keynote on OCaml 5.0 is up 😄: youtube.com/watch?v=6BhmRz7e…
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I also gave the keynote at the OCaml workshop on the "here and now" of OCaml 5.0 addressing how OCaml users may transition to 5.0: speakerdeck.com/kayceesrk/oc…
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HTTP requests in OCaml direct style? Yes please (no I/O monad)
Replying to @_anmonteiro
I'm excited about EIO and I'm thinking about converting Piaf to it
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Isn't there an option missing? Truly awful survey question from Office for Product Safety and Standards at BEIS. But it does provide great material for teaching about manipulative phrasing gov.uk/government/consultati…
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Do you write OCaml? Can you never remember how to declare a polymorphic locally abstract type variable? Well then I have good news: introducing ocamlsyntax.com/, a cheat sheet for all the weird syntax that you only use once a year.
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A mammoth #OCaml multicore monthly in November, with the summary of the code review sessions the core development team conducted to finalise decisions for the OCaml 5.0 "minimal viable product" PR being generated. All good news: there are no blockers! discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicor…
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Effect handlers are therefore a "go" for OCaml 5.0 MVP, which opens the path for our high-performance direct-style multicore IO library to be usable in 2022! Now's a great time to start experimenting with it for yourselves github.com/ocaml-multicore/e…
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The latest OCaml multicore monthly is out, with a big surge of progress towards the 5.0.0 diff being available! The core OCaml team is huddling in a series of working groups through November to perform the large code review of the whole tree. discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicor…
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A new Signals & Threads ep, with a different spin. Instead of a Jane Street engineer, I spoke with @avsm, systems researcher, OCaml impresario, and founder of OCaml Labs. I hope y'all have half as much fun listening as we did recording! signalsandthreads.com/what-i…
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I wrote a little something on Getting Started with OCaml in 2021. lambdafoo.com/posts/2021-10-…
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Continuing my move to Wayland+KVM - getting Xwayland running in VMs was surprisingly difficult: roscidus.com/blog/blog/2021/…
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