On minds, machines, and the strange habit of confusing one for the other.
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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…
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…
A financial services team I know spent nine months building a knowledge graph.
“Don’t get drawn into the culture, Morty.
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…
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-deprecated way to acquire a capsule mutex, but the post shipped Capsule_blocking_sync.…
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