AI isn't turning the programmer's brain into mush. It's just that we're now acting more like managers. Oh wait.

Man vs Car energy youtu.be/bpWpIw7rETg

The OCaml Users Survey 2026 is now open! 📊 Share your experience with OCaml - from tools you use to new questions on AI/LLM tooling and debugging. Takes 10-15 minutes, open until May 25th. https://forms.gle/gt5nikqUmoQWeYYQ9

Le 1er mai en France, tout le monde a le droit de travailler. Ce qui est interdit c'est d'employer des gens. Ce n'est pas du tout pareil. Travaillez pour vous-mêmes, camarades.

I genuinely believe that to be trusted, an AI system must be wired to not want to die.

🤔 This is my Android battery usage. Someone whose name starts with Google and ends with Chrome wants to be uninstalled.

YAMLx 0.2.0 is out. It fixes a few minor issues (locations including trailing whitespace, document separator being printed weird, comment extraction and attachment) YAMLx is a complete, pure-OCaml YAML library with a user interface designed by me. github.com/mjambon/yaml... #ocaml

Does your ChatGPT also insert foreign words on occasion? Note that I don't speak or read any Arabic. I use English and French regularly.

I don't miss being insulted by idiots who don't try to understand what we say and assume the worst in others.

If you're pondering whether you should have kids, the answer is probably yes. We're wired to raise kids. Some people like kids more than others but overall, I think it's easier than the average guy would expect. Also, they're your kids; they're much more interesting than other people's kids.

Oh, BlackBerry is on US Netflix. You should watch it.

If you have complaints about YAMLx, please direct them to me. #ocaml

ATD now supports YAML! The key was to propagate source locations to produce useful error messages. discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-atd-4-... #ocaml

Clathrus rubber in Palo Alto, California #mushrooms

The last digit of π is 4.

This was one task. Proper vibe coding would have stopped after the first commit. Here, we made 15 revisions. #ocaml #claude

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections! www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Salut, moi c'est Martin et j'ai 581 mois.

It's beautiful. #ocaml #claude

I've created a complete, pure-OCaml YAML library called YAMLx (Yumyulack was too long). It will be suitable for reading config files in your applications as well as for analyzing YAML files used by other projects. Aiming for a release by the end of this week. github.com/mjambon/yamlx #ocaml #YAML

Twitter is down.

Look at this beauty, coming out despite the Summer temperatures and dryness. Amanita velosa — springtime amanita #mushrooms

ATD 4.0.0 is now available on opam. It includes two big features: - atdml: an experimental replacement for atdgen - imports: allow splitting type defs across multiple ATD files ATD is a suite of code generators for exchanging JSON data safely and conveniently across programming languages. #ocaml

I read this as "type theory — based systems". "Yo, your system is based, bro"

yikes #ocaml #appsec #vibeCoding

It turns out explaining what artificial life looks like to a biologist who has never thought about it isn't simple at all. Science-fiction is useful to prepare for the societal changes that are coming, you know.

If you can't beat the man, be the man. 😄 Re: a package manager based on the Netflix subscription model

Good things take time. Accelerationists say things take less and less time. I say it depends on whether usage is driven by humans or by the machines themselves. If machines are the main user and builder of your product and they're getting faster, then yes, product dev is getting faster.

Insightful article about the inadequacies of the existing IP protections for open-source software Pink Margarine — In Memoriam: Software Licensing (1980–2026) blog.cani.ne.jp/2026/03/01/p...

vibing hard #ocaml

Someone's got to defend Americans

This is a little scary. #ocaml #bash #claudecode

For those who don't know, a marathon is 26.2 miles (42.2 km). #running #California #wow #youDeserveIt www.runnersworld.com/news/a706418...

This painting could have been a photo. See also: "this meeting could have been an email" #art

I solved sex differences. You're welcome.

LinkedIn gives us this single-line interface to compose messages on mobile. I believe this is a nod to 'ed', the standard line-oriented text editor for Unix systems. 🥹

Regarding pain and suffering and whether this or that creature experiences it: We experience pain because it increases our odds of survival. I'm not gonna say you should be thankful for it but it's important to realize that without feeling pain you'd most likely be long dead.

Why do they call it "boiling the frog" when they could simply say "local minimum entrapment"? Culinary note: frogs are better fried than boiled.

Why should these AI previews of paintings in a living room be avoided for serious/non-American artists? It makes the painting look like a decorative piece. But there's nothing wrong about being decorative! The problem is it makes the painting's value cheaper than the already cheap living room.

My exhaustiveness check for ocamllex was merged today and will be part of OCaml 5.6 🎉 About 50% of all mll files out there are affected and raise the exception 'Failure: empty token' on some input. An example of such input is now provided at compile time. github.com/ocaml/ocaml/... #ocaml

Wow, lightning. This is a once-in-a-year event here. #bayarea #weather #climate #wow

Bro uses two different kinds of dashes in the same paragraph

Peace is not an ideal, it's a compromise. #worldpeace #fuckyeah

Indent multiline text in #ocaml with this one weird trick the government doesn't want you to know: val indent : int -> string -> string let indent n str = let prefix = String.make n ' ' in str |> String.split_on_char '\n' |> List.map (fun line -> prefix ^ line) |> String.concat "\n"

A word from ChatGPT: "Engineering conscience is what stops you from shipping something you wouldn’t want to maintain."

Pro tip: don't change your car battery just before going to a smog check 😂 (clears some records needed to pass so I'll need to come back)

I filmed myself to prove I'm real or something. #art

tfw you realize each '=' in the value of an environment variable creates an extra variable # Unix.putenv "a" "b=c";; - : unit = () # Unix.getenv "a=b";; - : string = "c" #ocaml #posix #C

Well, this is getting somewhere. #ocaml