The Queen waving at marius eriksen and me just after we had OpenBSD 3.7 cake. Calgary 2005.

All the Cambridge Colleges have dropped their flags to half-mast

Ready for the Kings Proclamation at the Senate House in Cambridge! Flags back to full mast until it’s done, then it’s back to half mast

KC paints a beautiful future for OCaml!

The first print copy of @realworldocaml v2 has been grabbed by a marius eriksen!! He promises to leave it in a coffee shop in California where it will go viral

The video of my ICFP Conference keynote on OCaml 5.0 is up 😄: youtube.com/watch?v=6BhmRz…

Some big and exciting news! We're hiring 6 new Assistant Professors across a wide range of areas in Computer Science Cambridge Computer Science ow.ly/NobH50L0OFb. Here's a run-down of them all 1/8

full unplanned power cuts just happened all across Cambridgeshire and the north; ukpowernetworks.co.uk/power-cut/map?…

It's a lovely autumn day in Cambridge (no power), so lettuce (no PM) explore the new Real World OCaml v2 site! The HTML version of the book reflects latest copy, and print editions are available for purchase or free PDFs: realworldocaml.org and cambridge.org/core/books/rea…

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…

I've started to make an appearance in bookshops around the world; if you do see me, please do share a picture of where you are! To begin, I am currently proudly perched in the window of Cambridge University Press opposite the historic University of Cambridge Senate House!

The birth of Docker for Desktop! My only regret is the "I love fried chicken" sticker on my laptop.

There is a huge amount of extra support now available for students applying to Cambridge from Africa, across _all_ departments and courses. Full funding, maintenance and travel costs are covered. postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding-overvi…

For those who care about tropical forests (everyone!) the findings are depressing. Money is needed to ensure effective/equitable conservation & the carbon market offers important revenue. There is a real risk that these failures will mean the baby is thrown out with bathwater BUT

“It’s safe to say there are strong discrepancies between what we’re calculating & what exists in their databases, & that is a matter for concern and further investigation." 1/2 David Coomes, one of our leads, in Patrick Greenfield investigation Guardian Environment theguardian.com/environment/20…

I couldn't agree with Julia more; we're working in 4C: Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits to leapfrog the credibility gap of additionality claims via remote sensing, but there remains much work to be done on questions on livelihoods and the impact of these projects on local inhabitants.