David Allsopp
@dra27.uk
Cambridge-based, London-working software engineer; sometime classical singer. @dra27 in many places, including GitHub; OCaml maintainer; opam maintainer; Windows {apolog,evangel}ist
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...; remember to follow the guidelines in github.com/ocaml/ocaml/.... Details on the original investigation in www.dra27.uk/blog/platfor...
January 26, 2026 at 7:48 AM
github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...; remember to follow the guidelines in github.com/ocaml/ocaml/.... Details on the original investigation in www.dra27.uk/blog/platfor...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand... - “The Stats of the Nation”
Of course, only have a paper ticket at all because apparently issuing an electronic ticket which can work both mainline station barriers and London Underground barriers is a feat engineering well beyond our national infrastructure…
November 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Of course, only have a paper ticket at all because apparently issuing an electronic ticket which can work both mainline station barriers and London Underground barriers is a feat engineering well beyond our national infrastructure…
☺️ There’s an eleventh-hour technical stall with a test harness for the second one (found by a Windows runner, but it’s not a Windows-specific issue!), but it should be good to go on Monday! 🥳
November 29, 2025 at 10:43 AM
☺️ There’s an eleventh-hour technical stall with a test harness for the second one (found by a Windows runner, but it’s not a Windows-specific issue!), but it should be good to go on Monday! 🥳
Yes, I very much agree!
November 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Yes, I very much agree!
Actually, dune package management is then able to stop doing anything special for the compiler - it becomes possible for Dune’s cache to cache the build instead (which was tested with a much earlier build back in March IIRC). So Dune still “builds” the compiler multiple times - but using the cache
September 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Actually, dune package management is then able to stop doing anything special for the compiler - it becomes possible for Dune’s cache to cache the build instead (which was tested with a much earlier build back in March IIRC). So Dune still “builds” the compiler multiple times - but using the cache
Discuss announcement at discuss.ocaml.org/t/17253; “overview” PR at github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...; some additional pontifications at www.dra27.uk/blog/platfor...
Relocatable OCaml
It is my great pleasure, 3 years to the day since I finalised the first full demonstration of it in Ljubljana for the OCaml Workshop in 2022, to announce the general availability of Relocatable OCaml ...
discuss.ocaml.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Discuss announcement at discuss.ocaml.org/t/17253; “overview” PR at github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...; some additional pontifications at www.dra27.uk/blog/platfor...
