Yawar Amin
@yawaramin.bsky.social
Recent escapee from that other social media platform with a musky smell
Check out the tutorial in the OCamlverse wiki
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Check out the tutorial in the OCamlverse wiki
The ultimate reply guy, the progenitor of all reply guys
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The ultimate reply guy, the progenitor of all reply guys
Docker Desktop to be precise, so just Windows and Mac developer devices, not production deployments. But yeah it's pretty cool
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Docker Desktop to be precise, so just Windows and Mac developer devices, not production deployments. But yeah it's pretty cool
> I do wish I could do
Why hx-boost is actually the most important feature of htmx
A widely misunderstood htmx attribute holds the key to unlocking its hypermedia design philosophy
dev.to
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
> I do wish I could do
First-past-the-post (choose only one) voting system enforces a two-party paradigm. We need approval voting (choose one or more)...
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
First-past-the-post (choose only one) voting system enforces a two-party paradigm. We need approval voting (choose one or more)...
Stay off the 401 and you're good!
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Stay off the 401 and you're good!
They are regulated in the US so the answer is yes, customers will be compensated accordingly
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
They are regulated in the US so the answer is yes, customers will be compensated accordingly
The Kotlin guys got quite a ride from this too sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-...
The Country That Broke Kotlin
Logic vs language: how a Turkish alphabet bug played a years-long game of hide-and-seek inside the Kotlin compiler
sam-cooper.medium.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The Kotlin guys got quite a ride from this too sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-...
module Shout(Value: ToString) = struct
let shout value = Value.to_string value ^ "!"
end
Then you implement the behaviour per type:
module Int = struct
let to_string = string_of_int
end
...and so on.
let shout value = Value.to_string value ^ "!"
end
Then you implement the behaviour per type:
module Int = struct
let to_string = string_of_int
end
...and so on.
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
module Shout(Value: ToString) = struct
let shout value = Value.to_string value ^ "!"
end
Then you implement the behaviour per type:
module Int = struct
let to_string = string_of_int
end
...and so on.
let shout value = Value.to_string value ^ "!"
end
Then you implement the behaviour per type:
module Int = struct
let to_string = string_of_int
end
...and so on.
By implementing the specific behaviours in the type-specific modules. To use a simple example, let's say the function that should work for all types you're interested in is 'shout', which converts any value to a string and adds an exclamation mark after it:
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
By implementing the specific behaviours in the type-specific modules. To use a simple example, let's say the function that should work for all types you're interested in is 'shout', which converts any value to a string and adds an exclamation mark after it:
Functors...define the function inside a functor and instantiate a new module for each type you want to use
October 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Functors...define the function inside a functor and instantiate a new module for each type you want to use
For npm, important to also use 'npm ci' or similar. Surprisingly difficult to get some teams to prioritize even a one-line diff to change 'npm install' to 'npm ci'.
October 4, 2025 at 5:52 AM
For npm, important to also use 'npm ci' or similar. Surprisingly difficult to get some teams to prioritize even a one-line diff to change 'npm install' to 'npm ci'.
It feels like that because you're learning something new...that's how brains work. After a while you get used to it and think it's completely natural.
October 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It feels like that because you're learning something new...that's how brains work. After a while you get used to it and think it's completely natural.
Tbh syntax is one of the most trivial of OCaml's issues, people can get comfortable with it in a couple of weeks. And today many popular languages have lifted much of it wholesale so it's not even that alien any more.
October 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Tbh syntax is one of the most trivial of OCaml's issues, people can get comfortable with it in a couple of weeks. And today many popular languages have lifted much of it wholesale so it's not even that alien any more.
Almost every syntax decision has careful reasoning behind it, usually two big reasons: don't break backward compatibility, and be whitespace-insensitive. In case of named args, it allows punning which is super convenient eg:
let foo { x; y } = bar ~x ~y ()
let foo { x; y } = bar ~x ~y ()
September 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Almost every syntax decision has careful reasoning behind it, usually two big reasons: don't break backward compatibility, and be whitespace-insensitive. In case of named args, it allows punning which is super convenient eg:
let foo { x; y } = bar ~x ~y ()
let foo { x; y } = bar ~x ~y ()
So you saw him Yesterday?
September 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
So you saw him Yesterday?
Have you looked into Angstrom?
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Have you looked into Angstrom?
Richard WM Jones at Red Hat did it bitstring.software
OCaml Bitstring
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bitstring.software
September 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Richard WM Jones at Red Hat did it bitstring.software
It's still in preview, but opam works well and will get even better when OCaml ships relocatable compiler support so creating new switches will take just a couple of seconds.
September 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It's still in preview, but opam works well and will get even better when OCaml ships relocatable compiler support so creating new switches will take just a couple of seconds.
dune init project my-project
September 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
dune init project my-project
Wait, is Burns Supper unhealthy? I've wanted to try it for a long time...
September 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Wait, is Burns Supper unhealthy? I've wanted to try it for a long time...