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Apr 9, 2026
A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code

A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code

Proposing a voluntary, machine-readable AI content disclosure scheme for OCaml spanning opam packages, dune, and per-module attributes, aligned with the W3C AI Content Disclosure vocabulary.


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Anil Madhavapeddy
anil.recoil.org
Apr 2, 2026
.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated

.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated

Publishing the OxCaml Labs year-one review, POSSE and AI content disclosure for the web, adopting the geo-embeddings Zarr convention for TESSERA, action PROPL at PLDI, the death of the grant application, and NASA's new swathe lidar mission.


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Anil Madhavapeddy
anil.recoil.org
Mar 28, 2026
TESSERA now supports the Zarr geo-embeddings convention proposal

TESSERA now supports the Zarr geo-embeddings convention proposal

Community feedback reshaped our Zarr store layout — years became a dimension, shards got bigger, and we retired the TESSERA-specific convention in favour of a shared geo-embeddings standard that also covers other models.


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Anil Madhavapeddy
anil.recoil.org
Mar 26, 2026

We Need Website-Level Color Scheme Preferences

Since a few months ago, my website has a dark theme. So today I decided to casually open a PR to the darktheme.club website. On this PR, it is asked what mechanism is used to enable the dark mode. I selected JavaScript. It is unfortunate, but it is a reality.


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Henrique Dias
hacdias.com
Nov 25, 2023

Thunderbolt Road

How Thunderbolt, the ultra-fast connector that recently turned 10, started life with a completely different look. (Fun fact: $400 Thunderbolt 3 cables exist.)

Not-So-Missed Connections

Just like your pile of old chargers, the world of mobile connectors was always messy. Standards did not help. Will regulation?