Planet Forklore

This post is an expansion of what I wrote on r/archlinux as a proposal for AUR helpers. It is a call for every package manager to add support for global hooks. The packaging ecosystems that we all rel…

I am building a course, “Functional Programming with OCaml”, for the NPTEL MOOC platform: twelve modules of recorded lectures. The course book is not a PDF and not a website with code listings you cop…

A financial services team I know spent nine months building a knowledge graph.

In September 2025, I attended the annual LibreOffice conference in Budapest, Hungary. This gave me an opportunity to explore the city, which I will cover in this post. Let’s start with the currency. A…

After a four-year absence, Gartner has brought back the Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management Solutions.

Why "what does revenue mean?" doesnt help "who is this customer?"

In the previous post on capsules, I cheated. The lecture I was adapting (from my CS6868 course on language abstractions for parallelism) used Await_capsule.Mutex.with_lock, the recommended non-depreca…

Insights from State of Martech 2026

In the previous post we fixed the racy gensym with Portable.Atomic. That worked because the shared state was a single integer with atomic primitives. What about state that needs a hash table, a multi-…

A while back I wired up x-ocaml so this blog could embed live, editable OCaml notebooks. That post used a vanilla OCaml 5 toplevel. Today the toplevel running in your browser is built from OxCaml, the…

Over the last decade, I’ve made a bunch of sites using some mix of data/content. The most popular of these is endoflife.date, but there’s also hackercouch.com, mf.captnemo.in and a bunch more. My pref…

My primary domain (captnemo.in, where you’re reading this) was suspended by my registry (.in) for 3 hours last night (4th May 2026). I discovered the issue roughly 30 minutes after it happened, at aro…

What does it mean for a replicated data type to be correct? For most of the literature, my own prior work included, the answer has been convergence: two replicas that have applied the same operations…

On the 7th of September 2025, my friend Dione and I had a day trip to Vienna—the capital of Austria. We were attending a conference in Budapest, Hungary, which is 250 km from Vienna. So, it was a good…

Hi all, kindly update your tolkapy remote repository url with the following commands Next check the old remote configured with ssh url or https url To change this need to execute the following command…

In September 2025, I attended the LibreOffice Conference in Budapest, Hungary, on the 4th and the 5th, and a community meeting on the 3rd. Thanks to The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring my tra…

The annual LibreOffice conference 2025 was held in Budapest, Hungary, from the 3rd to the 6th of September 2025. Thanks to the The Document Foundation (TDF) for sponsoring me to attend the conference.…

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