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Notes on learning ocaml

Some notes after spending a month or so attempting to get to know ocaml.

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anycast

Since I am using a CDN to deliver this site, I got curious about how they work.

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Two walks in the Gila

Last week we hiked through the Gila Wilderness, for our third annual March expedition. Our previous trip to the Gila was comparatively more extreme: the weather was harsher, the rivers' flows were very elevated, and we encountered nearly no one on the trail. This year, conditions were much milder and …

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Tufte Template

I've been playing with the Pelican static site generator to automate producing the HTML for this site. Most of Pelican's default templates are busy and ugly, Reminiscent of the web circa 2011. and I have little interest in spending a lot of time tweaking flex-boxes. I want something that is …

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Web publishing now

It's been several years since I put together a website; I remember getting HTTPS set up to be a particular hassle, and the dangerous sort where tedious work had to be done on a schedule or it would expire.

The state of static site automation has progressed to where I …