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

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.