The Secret Rise of the Semantic Web The semantic web was supposed to be Web 3.0. Then blockchain stole the name and everyone moved on. Turns out the original vision is quietly coming true - just not how anyone expected.

We wrote about how the semantic web is actually happening - it just looks completely different than Tim Berners-Lee imagined. No grand announcements, just quiet infrastructure changes reshaping the web.

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"The semantic web was supposed to be Web 3.0. Then blockchain stole the name and everyone moved on." But the original vision? It's quietly coming true - just not how anyone expected. 👇

The State of solid-ml The solid-ml experiment is winding down. What worked, what didn't, and what I actually wanted all along.

solid-ml: what worked, what bombed, and what I was actually trying to solve.

transparency > ego

https://makerprism.com/en/blog/the-state-of-solid-ml/

Domain Specific Languages as AI Supervision Gates AI needs supervision. JSON isn't enough. Domain-specific languages could be the missing layer between what AI proposes and what actually gets executed.

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The AI execution problem isn't about better models.

It's about better interfaces.

DSLs give you a constrained language that encodes your domain rules.

This makes AI output inherently safer than arbitrary JSON blobs.

Dune Package Management on GitHub Actions: A Practical Setup A minimal setup-dune workflow, plus a cache prefix that follows your dependency signals.

I just published a practical guide to Dune package management on GitHub Actions.

No fluff. Just a minimal setup-dune workflow and a cache prefix that actually responds to your dependency changes.

makerprism.com/en/blog/dune-package-man...

A Practical Docker Cache Pattern for Dune Package Management How I cache the OCaml compiler and Dune package builds in Docker using a dummy target and a stable dune.lock layer.

Hot take: If your Docker builds are recompiling the OCaml compiler every time, you're doing it wrong.

I wrote up the cache pattern that actually works for Dune package management: makerprism.com/en/blog/a-practical-dock...

TL;DR: no final conclusion yet, torn between whether this is a waste of time, or a realistic method of "importing" eceosystem from other languages to OCaml

solid-ml: The Experiment of Making AI Agents Port SolidJS to OCaml An experiment to determine if the philosophy of SolidJS (fine-grained reactivity, a 'no-Virtual-DOM' approach, and high-performance hydration) can be faithfully ported to the OCaml ecosystem by AI agents.

Here's what happened with solid-ml 💎
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I let AI agents try to port SolidJS to OCaml. Fine-grained reactivity, no VDOM, high-performance hydration - could they pull it off?

And guess what... after posting on Reddit, a dozen people just signed up to do this because they want it to exist 🥹🧡🌈

It's messy, it's scrappy, but it's a start. Now, to bring this to life, we need to make it social, and it needs community members stepping to to verify these events with the venues.

KaraokeCrowd: Finding Karaoke Friends Anywhere in the World I noticed it's really hard to find karaoke events when traveling. So I scraped Reddit, tinkered for three days, and now have 1172 locations listed.

I spent three days scraping Reddit and building a directory. Now KaraokeCrowd has 1172 suspected karaoke locations worldwide 🌈

makerprism.com/en/blog/karaokecrowd-a-g...

Ever tried finding karaoke while traveling? It's weirdly difficult. Every city has spots, but they're hidden in Reddit threads and Facebook groups.

Most social posting tools treat you like an NPC who needs to post at optimal times with optimal hashtags. I wanted something that actually helps me say what I want to say while I keep creative control 🌈💎

I Had a Meme Problem. So I Built FeedMansion, an AI Ghostwriter for Social Media. I was mass-posting OCaml memes to four platforms and procrastinating on writing actual commentary. So I built an AI ghostwriter that does the drafting while I keep the final say.

This is why I'm building FeedMansion: makerprism.com/en/blog/i-had-a-meme-pro...

When your procrastination leads to building an AI ghostwriter, are you still procrastinating or are you innovating? 🤔 🌈💎

Should we create a guide on our minimalist method of working with a design system and AI agents to build beautiful landing pages?

I think we need to redo our homepage with this method!

If your third attempt at a side project results in starting a company, were the first two really failures, or just dress rehearsals for the main event?

Sometimes the third time's the charm. What side project have you abandoned that might deserve another look? Building in public has been transformative - and I'd love to hear about your journey too. 💎

Sometimes the third time's the charm. What side project have you abandoned that might deserve another look? Building in public has been transformative - and I'd love to hear about your journey too. 💎

Why I'm Starting a Company in Germany (After Trying to Start the Same Failed Side Project Twice) From an abandoned Python project to founding a company in Saarbrücken. How learning about AI agents turned into setting up Makerprism.

Curious how learning about AI agents led me to set up Makerprism in Saarbrücken? Read the full story: makerprism.com/en/blog/starting-a-compa...

After two failed attempts at the same side project, I finally took the leap and founded a company in Germany. The journey from abandoned Python code to AI-powered products taught me more than I expected. 🌈