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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@published 2026-03-09
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@published 2026-03-18
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{1 What did I do?}
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{2 TESSERA}
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I Started looking at fixing my TESSERA notebook to make it actually correct:
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- Removing the OCaml native PCA to replace with a tensorflow.js one. This should
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be much faster and probably more accurate.
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- Investigating the slightly-off-seeming embeddings - you can see features
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like roads on the embeddings and they don't {e quite} match up with the map.
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I'm still not quite sure where the discrepancy is coming from.
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- Looking at UNets as part of replicating Sadiq's {{:https://github.com/sadiqj/tessera-cnn-example}Solar Panel} detection example.
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Not much to show yet though.
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{2 Odoc release}
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We need an Odoc release soon, partly to support markdown output in dune, and
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partly to fix some bugs that were discovered when doing the odoc v3 dune rules.
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Most stuff has been merged, but we've still got Arthur's OxCaml patches to merge,
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which are waiting on a test fix. I also looked into OCaml 5.5 compatibility. The
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big item looks to be the merge of Modular Explicits, which will require a bit
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of work to support. I'm considering a mechanical fix to at least get odoc compiling
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with 5.5 for the odoc release, and a larger release later to properly support the
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5.5 features.
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{2 OxCaml docs builds}
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Anil has merged {{:https://github.com/avsm/oxmono/pull/3}my PR} to his oxmono repo to do docs, and that works nicely
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if you're generating _all_ of the docs for your monorepo, including dependencies,
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which is what you get when you run `dune build @doc-full`. Running `dune build @doc`
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doesn't quite work as there's no external place like ocaml.org where you can
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expect your dependency libraries docs to be. Mark's `day10` project is already
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building all of the oxcaml packages, so I had a look to see what it would be like
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to extend that to build the docs too. This is more-or-less working, but not yet
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as a reliable place that you can expect to be up to date. I had a thought that
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keeping the docs build running nicely is something that an AI agent should be able
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to do really well, so I'm investigating this. A neat thing it's already been able
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to do is to sort the build problems by number of other packages that they block,
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and numbers one and two were PPX issues (ppx_deriving_yojson and lwt_ppx). It was
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then able to come up with some patches that enabled both of these to build,
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unblocking all of those downstream packages. This, of course, is of wider interest
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than just the docs, so I need to figure out what to do with those patches.
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{2 Bugfixing my monorepo}
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I've been polishing the monorepo that's powering my website with a view to publishing
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a retrospective of the work that I've been doing over the past few months. This
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has really helped solidify in my mind the areas where Claude excels and the things
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we should be much more wary of letting it do. More on this in the retrospective!
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- {{!//blog/2026/03/page-"weeknotes-2026-11"}Weeknotes 2026 week 11}
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- {{!//blog/2026/03/page-"weeknotes-2026-10"}Weeknotes 2026 week 10}
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- {{!//blog/2026/03/page-"weeknotes-2026-09"}Weeknotes 2026 week 9}
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{- {{!//blog/2026/03/page-"weeknotes-2026-11"}Weeknotes 2026 week 11} 2026-03-18}
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{- {{!//blog/2026/03/page-"weeknotes-2026-10"}Weeknotes 2026 week 10} 2026-03-09}
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{- {{!//blog/2026/03/page-"weeknotes-2026-09"}Weeknotes 2026 week 9} 2026-03-02}
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{- {{!//blog/2026/02/page-"weeknotes-2026-08"}Weeknotes weeks 7-8} 2026-02-23}