Wrapping up my advent of agentic humps by building tuatara: a self-mutating Atom aggregator that can invoke Claude to alter its own OCaml code if it runs into errors. Medice, cura te ipsum, and merry Christmas! anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

I've built "unpac" today to make it possible to vendor _all_ OCaml package dependencies in a single git repo, using 100s of orphan branches and git worktrees. This makes agentic programming way more reliable as the agent has access to all the OCaml/OxCaml code. anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

Experts are celebrating the rise in the population of one of England’s rarest bumblebees. bee Recordings of the shrill carder bee have occurred over two consecutive years after more than a decade with no sightings. 📷 Bumblebee Conservation Trust Read more: https://ow.ly/JnQp50XwRwJ

I think this is far enough along to post about now pegasus, a pds implementation in ocaml, ~feature parity with the bluesky pds (minus app passwords because those are gross) repo includes various other atproto-relevant libraries in ocaml for interested sickos tangled.org/futur.blue/p...

Days 20/21 of AoAH had me vibespiling the complete HTML5 conformance checker and ngram language detector into OCaml from Java. Thousands of rules now in pure OCaml, and also run in the browser via wasm to dynamically check HTML5! anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

🗞️ Great news! A golden eagle has been spotted in northern England for the first time since 2015. Scientists working in the area report multiple sightings since April 2025. Read more in Mongabay: https://ow.ly/eFb450XAvyN

Good news: We're generating ~3TB of earth embeddings from 2017-2024 for TESSERA daily now. Bad news: I'm the storage sysadmin ucam-eo.github.io/tessera-cove...

Thing is, the ACM will _never_ win on this front; the tech giants have advertising sewn up. They need to be spending the time brainstorming about actual winning strategies to save computer *science*. sense-making.leaflet.pub/3mabfmkkemc2...

Day 17 of AoAH and I'm coding up bespoke email JMAP agents in OCaml that can spider around marking stuff as read so I don't have to. Starting to lose control of the personal agentic situation now... anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

There has been outrage as the @acm.org rolls out AI generated summaries of papers. This is doing AI exactly wrong by replacing valuable, peer-reviewed content with a possibly inaccurate summary. It's still not too late to correct it though and use AI responsibly... anil.recoil.org/notes/acm-ai...

Generating standalone OCaml executable tutorials that run in the browser for protocols I'm exploring, aka "vibesplaining" in today's Day 16 Advent of Agentic Humps post anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

Really enjoyed this piece by @anil.recoil.org , & great to see more recognition of the potential of ATProto for science! @atproto.science anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...

In short: The AT microblogsphere (Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, Gander..) provide an outstanding meta-platform for blog comments, and passing on that integration is a waste of interop magic

And it took less than a day to go the other direction and get a _typed_ pure OCaml HTML5 library anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

The Reith lectures are wonderful this year; "A conspiracy of decency" had robust Scottish audience participation that's a fascinating listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

For my last few days of my Advent of Agentic Humps, I blended 50 different language ecosystem's HTTP clients to brew an OCaml Requests library. Agents figured out the random quirks needed for a client by getting advice from our friends in Java, Haskell, C, C#, Python anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

Advent of Agentic Humps day 11: built a Claude skill to digest whole Internet RFCs and synthesise libraries for HTTP cookies, Public Suffix lists and Punycode. A triple library bonanza day! anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

I figured I'd try to get a proper handle on agentic programming with my 2025 Advent of Agentic Humps: building a new useful O(x)Caml library every day this month. Some fun learnings already but I'll save my conclusions till the month is done! anil.recoil.org/notes/aoah-2...

www.youtube.com/live/tOMF69d... The Wild West of Post-POSIX IO Interfaces by @anil.recoil.org - This is the single best presentation for understanding modern operating systems and hardware. Ever.

Hanging out with activist librarians is always fun, and the COAR Publish/Review/Curate meeting was productive anil.recoil.org/notes/coar-prc

Want to discover and visualise the differences between two different machine learning models? We will be presenting Neehar's work on "Representational Difference Explanations" at #NeurIPS2025 in San Diego from 4:30pm to 7:30pm PT today. Poster #1115. Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23917

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Switzerland now shipping Tessera embeddings! www.swissdatacube.org/index.php/20... -- but my oh my, we need to sort out versioning across all these so bad. Our first release is already escaping into the wild

released py-geotessera 0.7.2 for our TESSERA geospatial foundation model, mainly a point release with Windows support (and working around some really weird parquet/floating point interactions on Windows I haven't quite figured out yet). Thanks @dra27.uk for the help! github.com/ucam-eo/geot...

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...

Just published jsonfeed.1.1.0 on opam, in case you're looking for an alternative to Atom/RSS and want an example of using jsont codecs from OCaml instead of direct parsing ocaml.org/p/jsonfeed/l...

Published an XDG library today for OCaml that uses Eio to expose them as filesystem capabilities ocaml.org/p/xdge/1.0.0...

Yeah; sometimes rather than immediately firewall, I change the load balancer/web server to respond with a “Hiya, what do you think you’re doing?” error message if I think they might actually see it. On traintimes.org.uk has had a couple of people get in touch over the years!

If you can't pronounce Entente CordIAle then don't worry, neither the French nor the English can. But it was fun discussing it recently in the French Embassy with @ai.cam.ac.uk anil.recoil.org/notes/entent...

The Newton International Fellowships will open on 15 January. Changes to the eligibility criteria and selection process for this early career scheme have been made to ensure we can continue to run the scheme in a sustainable way: #RSGrants https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/

congratulations to @dra27.uk on having the first of his mega relocatable OCaml compiler patches merged! github.com/ocaml/ocaml/.... This is part of a series that'll make binary distributions of O(x)Caml compiler variants so much easier discuss.ocaml.org/t/relocatabl...

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas here at the EEG!

Been sketching out four things we need to build collective knowledge systems that are interoperable: permanence, provenance, permissions and placement. Very much enjoying implementing these via initiatives like @rogue-scholar.bsky.social and @tangled.org as well! anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...

How do we do more with biodiversity data we've already collected? I gave a TED Talk on scientific discovery in ecological databases at a joint TED Countdown and Bezos Earth Fund event for #NYClimateWeek this year, and it's now live! @inaturalist.bsky.social #AIforConservation

It's consistently remarkable to me that Ireland - surely just as strategically and economically fucked as Iceland if the gulf stream collapses - has a government that barely even things about this, let alone mention it, God forbid do anything.

@tangled.org is such a great role model for projects in this moment - actually does the thing: useful, accessible - innovates/differentiates at *product* level: stacked review - hybrid at proto layer (git and AT), pulls in bsky profile data - built in europe by small amitious team #eurosky

geotessera 0.7.1 is out to meet all your planetary geospatial hacking needs. It now has an efficient Parquet registry for the 1.2m+ tiles of CC-BY licensed global embeddings, and Zarr format support for more efficient chunking and distributed processing. Enjoy! 🌍 anil.recoil.org/notes/geotes...

The "Road to the AI Impact Summit: AI Openness Report is now live with updates on the global data before deep diving into India and the UK with new ecosystem data, thought leadership and case studies. Report link: openuk.uk/stateofopen/... #IndiaAIImpactSummit2025 #IndiaAI #AIforIndia #ImpactSummit

Kathleen Fisher is an inspired choice as the next ARIA CEO. And I was *just* reading her papers on PADS to send to @patrick.sirref.org as ideas for our time travelling shell! ariaresearch.substack.com/p/introducin...

Prepping for the upcoming Indian AI Summit in London with @openuk.bsky.social anil.recoil.org/notes/path-t...

More @tangled.org packages heading into opam @ocaml.org. It's getting easier and easier! tangled.org/@anil.recoil...

A rough and ready, online Hazel of OCaml compiler: patricoferris.github.io/hazel_of_oca...

'From research lab to newsroom: deploying secure whistleblower technology'. @arberesford.bsky.social & @lambda.bsky.social discuss their secure comms technology CoverDrop which now helps whistleblowers contact @theguardian.com journalists safely. 🗓️ Weds 12 Nov 🕒 15:05 (GMT) 👉🏼 shorturl.at/FbMWc

While idly waiting for a train, I realise that Kings Cross is pretty metal

Nice @cam.ac.uk article on our biodiversity impacts of food consumption at www.cam.ac.uk/stories/food... with an interactive explorer here quantifyearth.github.io/food-globe/ 🌎

Very good fun shaking Jensen Huang's hand after he was award the Hawking Fellowship at the Cambridge Union... and did he just advise us to abolish exams? anil.recoil.org/notes/jensen...

I like the direction @leaflet.pub is going, and am wondering if I could use Leaflet as the commenting/quoting platform for my own blog. It would need some sort of Atom/RSS bridging; I could create a Leaflet pub with just the URL to my blog as the only entry; any better way?

Discovered this custom papers feed based on who you follow: bsky.app/profile/did:... , via lab.leaflet.pub/3lz2rud4d3s2...

I'll add:: the future is having the agency of extensibility for code management. I want to be able to render executable notebooks that aren't Jupyter, to coordinate large datasets outside of git LFS, to track provenance of code+data. Federation is the means to this end. icy.leaflet.pub/3m47cll72hs25

This is exactly what I need and why I love the lazyweb. Thanks @runlevel0.me !