Anil Madhavapeddy
Anil Madhavapeddy's corner of the Internet, blogging about computer science, conservation, and digital life.
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Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
The FP Launchpad takes off at IIT Madras
The Internet needs an antibotty immune system, stat
A Proposal for Voluntary AI Disclosure in OCaml Code
.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated
TESSERA now supports the Zarr geo-embeddings convention proposal
.plan-26-12: Zarr across space and TESSERA time
.plan-26-11: Bins, bollards, bots and biodiversity boffins
Streaming millions of TESSERA tiles over HTTP with Zarr v3
.plan-26-10: Streaming TESSERA working, biodiversity action papers, and FPL takes off
Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum
.plan-26-09: Browser TESSERA, package management and Docker in the CACM
A Decade of Docker Containers on the CACM cover!
.plan-26-08: At AI summit, Shriram's PL opinions, Zarr hacking
At the AI Impact Summit in Delhi: people, planet, progress
1st TESSERA/CoRE hackathon at the Indian AI Summit
.plan-26-07: Storage, Lego, Echo, and the IUCN
Weeknote 2026/w6: Vivas, ARIA and interviews
Discussing effective conservation with all the UK Chief Scientists
My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Weeknote 2026/w5: An OxCaml hacking week
Weeknote 2026/w4: Travelling and tracking TESSERA activity
Weeknote 2026/w3: TESSERA scaling and speaking at AI4Nature's launch
Five ways to use the LIFE metric for conservation decision-making
.plan-26-02: Back from India and straight into the conservation conference
Devcontainer for using O(x)Caml and Claude in your projects
.plan-26-01: Easing into the new year with reading, temples and mosquitos
Happy new year and my fave readings of the year
AoAH Day 25: Claude OCaml Marketplace for all your festive coding needs
AoAH Day 24: Tuatara, an evolving Atom aggregator that mutates
AoAH Day 23: Unpac unifies git branching with package management
AoAH Day 22: Assembling monorepos for agentic OCaml development
AoAH Day 21: Complete dynamic HTML5 validation in OCaml and the browser
AoAH Day 20: Human language detection in native code, JS and wasm
AoAH Day 19: Zulip bot framework to bring Vicuna the friendly camel back
AoAH Day 18: TOML 1.1 codecs directly from the spec and paper
AoAH Day 17: OCaml JMAP to plaster my painful email papercuts
AoAH Day 16: Vibesplaining JSON Pointers using OCaml/Javascript
AoAH Day 15: Porting a complete HTML5 parser and browser test suite
AoAH Day 14: Debugging a Karakeep CLI against the live service
AoAH Day 13: Heckling an OCaml HTTP client from 50 implementations in 10 languages
AoAH Day 12: Eio Connection pooling and event tracing
AoAH Day 11: HTTP Cookies and vibing RFCs for breakfast
AoAH Day 10: Building a TUI for Sortal using Mosaic
AoAH Day 9: Adding a Bonsai terminal UI to Sortal
AoAH Day 8: Building a contacts CLI manager with Sortal
AoAH Day 7: Converting between JSON and Yaml with yamlt
AoAH Day 6: Getting a Yaml 1.2 implementation in pure OCaml
AoAH Day 5: Bytesrw Eio adapters and automating opam metadata
AoAH Day 4: Going recursive with Claudeio for Claude
AoAH Day 3: XDG filesystem paths using Eio capabilities
Foundational AI for Ecosystem Resilience workshop
AoAH Day 2: Building an OCaml JSONFeed library
AoAH Day 1: Building a Base32 Crockford library in OCaml
The AI French Connection to the Practice of Science
2025 Advent of Agentic Humps: Building a useful O(x)Caml library every day
Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems
GeoTessera 0.7 out with efficient sampling and Zarr support
On the path to the UK/India AI Summit with OpenUK and the ATI
Food and the long term risk to life
Jensen Huang receives the Hawking Fellowship at Cambridge
A Roundup of ICFP/SPLASH 2025 happenings
What I learnt at ICFP/SPLASH 2025 about OCaml, Hazel and FP
It's time to go post-POSIX at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Jane Street and Docker on moving to OCaml 5 at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Holding an OxCaml tutorial at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Programming for the Planet at ICFP/SPLASH 2025
Do not rule out nature from climate action; an open letter
Exploring the biodiversity impacts of what we choose to eat
GeoTessera Python library released for geospatial embeddings
Presenting our Ecology of the Internet ideas at Aarhus 2025
mlgpx is the first Tangled-hosted package available on opam
Tracking locations with OwnTracks, Life Cycle and Home Assistant
Cresting the OCaml AI humps
Using Kyutai's low latency audio models on macOS in one command
Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing meeting
Is AI poisoning the scientific literature? Our comment in Nature
EEG internships for the summer of 2025
Steps towards an ecology of the Internet
Under the hood with Apple's new Containerization framework
Visiting National Geographic HQ and the Urban Exploration Project
We become Junior Rangers at Shenandoah
What I learnt at the National Academy of Sciences US-UK Forum on Biodiversity
New preprint survey on energy-aware deep learning on embedded hardware
Out-of-the-box LLMs are not ready for conservation decision making
Learnings from the Cambridge Environmental Sustainability Committee
Humans are the ones that will save nature, helped by AI
Using Komodo to manage Docker compose on a small cluster
BIOMASS launches to measure forest carbon flux from space
Technology needs to unite conservation, not divide it
Viewing web logs the old fashioned way with Goaccess
Talks from LOCO24 are now available online
ESA's first BioSpace conference seems a huge success
Webassembly on exotic architectures (a 2025 roundup)
Unikernels wins the ASPLOS most influential paper award
The Cambridge "Green Blue" competition to reduce emissions