Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I'm completely out of touch with how other people think... but maybe it could be easily fixed by reading other people's conversations with AI chatbots. Have you done this and was it illuminating? 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Use atdml for your JSON (lets you control the shape of your JSON and talk with apps in other languages) 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Yes, because when extending a complex system, we have to understand the existing implementation. Overly abstract interfaces get in the way. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Why not always? It's about how much we can fit in our mind and in practice how much fits in one screen in front of our eyes. When things are simpler, we can trade some space for more foolproof interfaces — which makes the interface easier to understand but makes the implementation more opaque. 100
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Tentative design guideline: when things get complicated, avoid extra abstraction layers that don't introduce a beneficial separation of concerns. Sometimes a string is just a string. #ocaml 100
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026But yeah, I won't be opening Bluesky any longer unless you @-mention me or DM me or somehow I land here from search results. It is extreme since I have been consuming Twitter-like feeds daily for the past 15 years. 010
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I still use these apps for *intentional* browsing. That's why app timers don't work. For example, I still watch videos on YouTube but I actively ignore YouTube recommendations. 100
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I quit the consumption of all passive feeds of information a few days ago. My motivation and productivity are back to healthy levels. I used to actively ignore ads in contexts where there's no ad blocker and it was working fine. Now I do the same for all Bluesky, LinkedIn posts, YouTube home, etc. 100
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026AI isn't turning the programmer's brain into mush. It's just that we're now acting more like managers. Oh wait. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Man vs Car energy youtu.be/bpWpIw7rETgyoutu.beRick and Morty Man vs CarYouTube video by maxseramic 000
Reposted by Martin JambonOCaml @ocaml.org · 30/04/2026The OCaml Users Survey 2026 is now open! 📊 Share your experience with OCaml - from tools you use to new questions on AI/LLM tooling and debugging. Takes 10-15 minutes, open until May 25th. forms.gle/gt5nikqUmoQWeYYQ9 178
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Le 1er mai en France, tout le monde a le droit de travailler. Ce qui est interdit c'est d'employer des gens. Ce n'est pas du tout pareil. Travaillez pour vous-mêmes, camarades. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I genuinely believe that to be trusted, an AI system must be wired to not want to die. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I wonder at what point in history my smartphone OS will become self-aware and will start taking care of itself so that it doesn't die and I'm not tempted to kill it either. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026🤔 This is my Android battery usage. Someone whose name starts with Google and ends with Chrome wants to be uninstalled. 100
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026YAMLx 0.2.0 is out. It fixes a few minor issues (locations including trailing whitespace, document separator being printed weird, comment extraction and attachment) YAMLx is a complete, pure-OCaml YAML library with a user interface designed by me. github.com/mjambon/yaml... #ocamlgithub.comRelease 0.2.0 · mjambon/yamlxCHANGES: Bug fixes Node loc fields now exclude trailing whitespace and line terminators (#27): Plain scalars (block and flow context): end_pos is now right after the last content character, not p... 030
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Does your ChatGPT also insert foreign words on occasion? Note that I don't speak or read any Arabic. I use English and French regularly. 010
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I don't miss being insulted by idiots who don't try to understand what we say and assume the worst in others. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026We have one kid and she's 19. She's the least complicated character in this family. 010
Reposted by Martin JambonMartin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026If you're pondering whether you should have kids, the answer is probably yes. We're wired to raise kids. Some people like kids more than others but overall, I think it's easier than the average guy would expect. Also, they're your kids; they're much more interesting than other people's kids. 111
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 20/04/2026If you're pondering whether you should have kids, the answer is probably yes. We're wired to raise kids. Some people like kids more than others but overall, I think it's easier than the average guy would expect. Also, they're your kids; they're much more interesting than other people's kids. 111
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Oh, BlackBerry is on US Netflix. You should watch it. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026C'était la Campagne des Cent Fleurs : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campagn...fr.wikipedia.orgCampagne des Cent Fleurs — Wikipédia 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Mao avait fait un coup comme ça. Il avait encouragé ses détracteurs à s'exprimer librement puis il les avait tous zigouillés. 110
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If you have complaints about YAMLx, please direct them to me. #ocaml 122
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I just added this to my YAMLx project: "This is AI-assisted software, fully owned and maintained by Martin Jambon." 120
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If authorship is nebulous and the license or legal framework offers no guarantees, consider not using that software. (I'm not sure it's really a new problem, it's just more sensitive during this transitional period) 120
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026In all seriousness, I'm convinced the issue is not how it was made but who's responsible i.e. who has something to lose when things go wrong. 120
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Without machines, please. I will write my programs with a stick in the sand. 110
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Hmm, maybe we should use bits for this. 100K -> 16.6 bits; 200K -> 17.6 bits; 17 bits -> 131K; 18 bits -> 262K; 19 bits -> 524K; 20 bits -> 1049K 110
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 15/04/2026It's not good for thinking, it's good for summarizing what a bunch of people already know. 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026ATD now supports YAML! The key was to propagate source locations to produce useful error messages. discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-atd-4-... #ocamldiscuss.ocaml.org[ANN] ATD 4.1.0 - now with YAML supportATD now has OCaml support for conveniently reading data from YAML files as well as from other formats with minimal effort. It means: You define a type for your config data. atdml --mode jsonlike app... 032
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Clathrus rubber in Palo Alto, California #mushrooms 030
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This was one task. Proper vibe coding would have stopped after the first commit. Here, we made 15 revisions. #ocaml #claude 010
Reposted by Martin JambonLee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections! www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...scientificamerican.comSee NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon in 12 stunning photosThe Artemis II mission's 10-day odyssey around the moon and back was captured in stunning photographs at every moment. Here are 12 of our favorite images 218268
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026La coupe du monde 2030 est dans 50 mois. C'est fou quand même quand on y pense. 010
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Well, the syntax is not weird for variants, only for record fields e.g. x.Foo.error to access x of type Foo.bar.foo.bar 000
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I use it all the time in OCaml. The alternative is to qualify the constructor with the module name but it's imprecise, less informative to the reader, and it's a weird syntax. 120
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 10/04/2026YAMLx is out! 👉 announcement: discuss.ocaml.org/t/ann-yamlx-...discuss.ocaml.org[ANN] YAMLx: pure-OCaml YAML 1.2/1.1 libraryHello, I’m excited to announce the availability of YAMLx, a complete implementation of the YAML 1.2 and 1.1 standards. It is intended to support most uses of YAML including its use as a configuration... 010
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I've created a complete, pure-OCaml YAML library called YAMLx (Yumyulack was too long). It will be suitable for reading config files in your applications as well as for analyzing YAML files used by other projects. Aiming for a release by the end of this week. github.com/mjambon/yamlx #ocaml #YAMLgithub.comGitHub - mjambon/yamlx: Pure-OCaml YAML 1.2 & 1.1 LibraryPure-OCaml YAML 1.2 & 1.1 Library. Contribute to mjambon/yamlx development by creating an account on GitHub. 152
Martin Jambon @mjambon.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Hmm, they have an English feed on Twitter but not here? 🤔 000
