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Ryan T. Gibb
Personal blog · ryan.freumh.org/blog · on HN as ryangibbprogrammingsystems
Ryan T. Gibb's personal blog at ryan.freumh.org covers programming and systems. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Eon – An Effects-Based OCaml Nameserver”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Most-linked posts?
- Eon – An Effects-Based OCaml Nameserver3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-11
What Hacker News says?
The MirageOS project [0] is a great collection of functionality pure OCaml libraries that are useful outside of unikernels. I've used the DNS library with an effectful layer for various nameserver experiments [1]. [0] https://mirage.io/ [1] https://ryan.freumh.org/eon.html
Comment linking /eon.html
on “Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell”Submitted Eon – An Effects-Based OCaml Nameserver as a story · 67 points
HN discussionAuthor of Eon here, there's still some open questions I have here about managing the lifetimes of these certificates. Renewal is supported via a Capnproto callback and there's some ad-hoc integration in with NixOS nginx to restart it on a certificate renewal. https://github.com/RyanGibb/eon/blob/3a3f5bae2b308b677edfb3f... This doesn't work in the general case, e.g. for postfix and dovecot, and is only becoming more…
Comment linking /eilean.html
on “Eon – An Effects-Based OCaml Nameserver”Submitted Opam's Nix system dependency mechanism as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Caledonia: Command-Line and Emacs Calendar Client as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expanding My Vocabulary to a Million Words as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eon: A programmable effects-based OCaml DNS server as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a Low-Powered NAS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How This Site Is Build as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing opam-based OCaml projects with Nix Flakes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hillingar: MirageOS Unikernels on NixOS as a story · 1 points
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