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Data race freedom in OxCaml

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 Jane Street fork of the compiler. That means we can prove a small parallel pro…

A SQLite Plugin for Jekyll

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 preferred stack for such projects is Jekyll, now with custom plugins since GitHub P…

A Namecheap bug got my domain suspended

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 around 22:45 CET and managed to get on chat with a Namecheap representative in the…

A Day in Vienna

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 opportunity to visit Vienna. We took a morning train from Budapest to Vienna a…

LibreOffice Conference Budapest 2025

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 travel and accommodation costs. The conference venue was Faculty of Informatics, E…