Professor of Planetary Computing at the University of Cambridge @cst.cam.ac.uk, where I co-lead the @eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk and work on computing for global biodiversity and climate change with @conservation.cam.ac.uk. Homepage at https://anil.recoil.orghttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.orghttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mp2hnz3ib22bFinding FreeBSD jails pretty hard to use in practise for OCaml CI; the latest is a leak from double forking processes, which is kind of a surprising default https://www.tunbury.org/2026/06/24/leaking-jails/24 Jun 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2hnz3ib22bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3moxzidru6k2pMy afternoon has been derailed by @oppi.li pointing me to the absolutely gorgeous font collection at djr.com/fern https://djr.com/fern23 Jun 2026 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxzidru6k2phttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3movrryvmn22l.plan-26-w25: From planetary scale plans at PROPL to Windows file-descriptor scale problems in OCaml anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w25 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w2522 Jun 2026 21:00 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3movrryvmn22lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mound2qcpc2lI gave a talk on AI for Science at the Cambridge Union this morning and by the end of it the prime minister had resigned. Coincidence? I think so22 Jun 2026 10:08 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mound2qcpc2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mosbldhw522zI was really struck by Starmer's comments a few months ago: "every time I go to pull a lever there are a whole bunch of regulations [...] that mean that the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be". https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/starmer-frustrated-with-gap-between-pulling-lever-and-delivery21 Jun 2026 11:32 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mosbldhw522zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3molt2zhjts25Not your average day at work today since Sir David Attenborough dropped by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative today to celebrate a decade of being in the eponymous building (which used to be the old computer science campus pre-2001!). https://anil.recoil.org/notes/ten-years-of-cci 🌎18 Jun 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3molt2zhjts25https://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3moilh247i22rWas down at the @royalsociety.org last night for Andrew Balmford's epic talk "on feeding the world without costing the earth" as the inaugural winner of the RS Environment Medal. Here's my notes on it including that rarest of sightings: Andrew in a suit! https://anil.recoil.org/notes/ab-rs-env-medal 🌍17 Jun 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3moilh247i22rhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mofwpvixpk2n.plan-2026-w24: I got promoted! Also did loads of hacking. It's been a good week. I owe many people a pint to say thank you. anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w24 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w2416 Jun 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mofwpvixpk2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3modei7duv22vAfter being cut off from Fable, I integrated Deepseek-4 to be callable as a local OCaml function and then built unikernel-style sandboxed agent libraries from the ground up. Language integrated LLMs are surprisingly easy to put together, given a supply of memory https://anil.recoil.org/notes/language-integrated-llms15 Jun 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3modei7duv22vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mo3xk3uxik27We've released the @geotessera.org v1.1 geospatial foundation model, with wider coastal coverage, improved sparse observation accuracy and greater year-on-year temporal stability. https://anil.recoil.org/notes/tessera-v11-out 🌏12 Jun 2026 14:34 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3xk3uxik27https://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mnwkmo7vg22nMassive hailstorm in Cambridge in June! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Jun 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnwkmo7vg22nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mnu7lqzbyk2a.plan-2026-w23: Earth Embeddings, Emails Everywhere, and ERRNOOOs anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w23 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w2309 Jun 2026 12:37 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnu7lqzbyk2ahttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mnrrdj3tes2wHow we've hosted our email "the hard way", by registering our own IPv4 block allocation with RIPE and then going through everything involved in receiving, delivering and accessing email on the modern public Internet. https://anil.recoil.org/notes/recoil-self-hosting-2026 with @nick.recoil.org and @gazagnaire.org08 Jun 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrrdj3tes2whttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mnhvqcsgss2wHaving the @esa.int promote our @geotessera.org earth observation foundation model is something my space-loving teenage self would only have dreamt of! Jovana is presenting our paper on Tessera at @cvprconference.bsky.social this week, in case you're there! https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Tessera_AI_model_offers_accessible_way_to_view_Earth 🌎04 Jun 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhvqcsgss2whttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mnhgfkmb2s2f@scaleway.com are the risc-v nodes you provided permanently out of commission? Just planning what we do in OCaml CI land as they were very useful! https://www.tunbury.org/2026/06/03/emulated-riscv-workers/04 Jun 2026 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnhgfkmb2s2fhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mnac6xtzj22vI dropped by Edinburgh for a workshop on 'rewilding the web', with participation from philosophers, technologists, ecologists, architects, mathematicians, authors and landscape planners. https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rewilding-the-web-report @kathrynnave.eurosky.social @mariafarrell.eurosky.social @robin.berjon.com 🌎01 Jun 2026 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnac6xtzj22vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mn37liuaoc2bRunning in Scotland isn't the same as running in Cambridge; can't feel my legs this morning due to all the 3D ups and downs!30 May 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn37liuaoc2bhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mmtpnb26mk2l.plan-26-21: some amazing undergraduate projects completed this week on TESSERA and OxCaml, speaking at Pint of Science, and a grab bag of hacking anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w21 https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w2127 May 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtpnb26mk2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mmtpn3xgmc2lI love this, and I've figured out how to use a websocket to grab these CI logs directly into my own client as well. Go Tangled! [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 May 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtpn3xgmc2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/anil.recoil.org/post/3mmted2bfik2oSome 'behind the scenes' about appearing on the BBC/ITV/etc last week talking about... hedgehogs and AI, of all things. https://anil.recoil.org/notes/hedgehog-tessera-week 🌏27 May 2026 11:04 +0000at://did:plc:nhyitepp3u4u6fcfboegzcjw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmted2bfik2o