Well, this is getting somewhere. #ocaml

This doesn't work as expected but on the bright side, the error message is very readable. #ocaml #windows #crlf

Testo 0.3 is out! discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-testo-... #ocaml

I am being hit by the absurdity of the question "what did you learn?". I could summarize what I learned but it wouldn't teach you what I learned, only some of it. Contrast this with discovery—where the work I did to learn a new thing can now be bypassed.

OCaml exercise for enjoyers of mutability: write a program that parses the command line using the standard Arg module but without using globals. Note that in practice, you might want to prefer the cmdliner library since its UI is more attractive. Arg is easier to grasp, though.

It goes to 11

I wrote an #OCaml program that checks whether a regular expression matches every input string. If not, it provides an example of nonmatching input. $ echo '.? | [^h]. | .[^i] | ...+' | exhausteve The provided regular expression is not exhaustive. Here is an example of nonmatching input: "hi"

They're both Swiss cheese except the Swiss cheese 🤯

AI says my AI-friendliness will get me in trouble.

Achieving immortality is basically the bro version of solving the halting problem. But yeah, no longer dying of old age makes death less predictable. No more retirement, only long vacations. You'll work all your life and die by slipping on a banana peel. Why not. x.com/bryan_johnso...

My Spotify likes include 3 songs with Jesus in the title lol

I have to remember that my chest pain condition is called Precordial Catch Syndrome (PCS). It's scary and strange but benign. It started when I was 14 years old with occasional recurrences now and then at different times in my life. (1/2) #medicine #anxiety #pain

There are no nontrivial context-free physical objects. The trivial ones are the world and nothingness. This seems important.

Un terrain de foot = un hectare = 10,000 m² You're welcome

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Here are Spotify stats from my Top 2025 Songs: - top song: 82 listens - 100th song: 16 listens What are your numbers? #music #spotify

TIL Kokomo is a city in Indiana (pop. 60,000) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJWm... The movie is Cocktail.

Hypothesis: writing and maintaining code is easier—can be done with simpler designs—if you and all your current and future collaborators have great memory.

Someone who's not me should have an AI write the whole standard library and all the dev tools for this language. (definitely not #ocaml)

Cocorico

I'm experimenting with pairing my concise notes with longer explainers written by ChatGPT. Here's one: "There's no correct perception" Original note: mjambon.com/notes/theres... ChatGPT explainer: mjambon.com/notes/theres... Let me know how you feel about this.

Ecru #7, October 2025 www.instagram.com/p/DQD_r9jDpq8/ #art

After spending an evening shopping for a walking treadmill and giving up upon learning that they consume over 2000 watts and then briefly considering a manual treadmill, I find myself looking for something simpler to encourage movement at my standing desk. Suggestions welcome!

I made an awesome playlist for my nephew based on L'Aventurier by Indochine. Enjoy if you dare! open.spotify.com/playlist/4Op...

I have way too many fun and good projects for this Thanksgiving weekend and upcoming Christmas break. I'm not sure if I should do a little bit of each kind at the risk of spreading thin or go all in on one project. Maybe I'll pick one big project and several tiny ones for easy wins.

To be clear, there are way better explanations of entropy if you need one. I'm a little fuzzy on the limits of its applicability in physics, though.

Explain entropy: Everything eventually turns to shit and evens out—but here and there, highly organized anti-shit emerges producing even more shit around it in the process.

Revenge is not ok. It never is. Ask for payback or forgive but do not destroy value.

Please say something when you witness vengeful behavior, especially when directed at OCaml community members, regardless of how wrong or annoying they may be on some issue. #ocaml

Fast mass transportation in dense environments benefits from constrained and coupled trajectories. That's why in cities, trains work better than cars and cars work better than helicopters (unless you have the sky to yourself, obviously).

Little alien spaceships - Psilocybe allenii fruiting abundantly in the San Francisco Bay Area today #mushrooms #psychedelics #fungifriends

Last year, I learned that my birthday is also the anniversary of the first synthesis of LSD by Albert Hofmann (1938). This year, I learned it's also the birthday of Terence McKenna (1946). Is it a coincidence or is it a message from the mushroom aliens? Pictured: the latest mushroom pic on my phone

This is my latest painting. If you like this, follow me on Instagram. www.instagram.com/martinjambon

Why procrastinate now when I can procrastinate later?

TIL the Maori name for France is Wiwi ("oui, oui").

The idea that we could live in a simulation is amusing but what is a simulation exactly? It seems to imply a distinction between the substrate or the support for the simulation and the actual events occurring on that substrate. Another defining aspect of a simulation is that it's intentional.

Recreational mussel harvesting season for human consumption is now officially open in California! Yesterday, we could have gotten domoic acid poisoning but not today! 🎉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoic_...

I'm excited to have made a Lazy_with_output replacement of OCaml's Lazy module that captures and restores stdout and stderr. I'm just not 100% sure it will be useful. The goal is to share computations/context-building among several tests of a test suite and ensure they all get the same log. #ocaml

On the subject of shutting annoying people up: "Please do something useful or learn something useful. You don't seem to be doing either"

Do what you want with your body but preferably do what you want.

And speaking of #cannabis, Carl Sagan, writing as Mr. X, shared his perspective on it in this essay included in Grinspoon's book Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). I'd read it before, but it was interesting to revisit with new questions about how cannabis experiences overlap with psychedelic ones.

My doctors don't use no stinking AI, OK?

Ok kids, listen. Promising things is foolish. Promises are unpaid contracts. Why would you constrain your life in exchange for nothing? Just don't. This will increase your reputation and the trust others place in you. And they'll help you succeed.

If you see this, post a random photo (or meme) from your photo gallery without explaining it.

I'm very happy with my workflow with Graphite. I posted about it a couple weeks ago: dev.to/semgrep/a-gu... It allows me to manage a queue of changes that I can rework independently. In the screenshot, you can my queue or so-called stack of PRs.

Um, thanks?

"fake scientist" lol

The unusual pigments that evolved in parrots are this month's molecules. www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/psittac... #science #chemistry #biology

This new @inkfish.bsky.social story is WILD. 🧪 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Le meilleur moyen de ne pas devenir fou est d'être déjà fou au départ.