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Package Managers need global hooks

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 rely on have been under constant attacks. The most interesting countermeasures cur…

An O(x)Caml book that runs

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 copy elsewhere. It is a website where the code runs, in your browser, with nothing…

Budapest Travel

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. Although Hungary is a part of the European Union (EU), it doesn’t use the euro a…