Epiktistes

Epiktistes is my home in the Fediverse. It is an instance of Ktistec, a single-user ActivityPub server like Mastodon, but with fewer users and fewer commits. Here's my introduction (last updated early-2025).

I wrote a series of posts about optimizing the performance of the Ktistec server, its build time, and its executable size: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, and part 5.

Some things I regularly write about, organized by hashtag:

I also wrote some #pointfreeverse.

Todd Sundsted

i love the practice but I *hate* the name "chaos engineering"... maybe "scientific engineering" given the focus on experimentation. or just yank the cable and see what happens and fix it. you'll be better off for having tested it.

Todd Sundsted

all this typing has turned my handwriting into crap

Todd Sundsted

studying algorithmic design. looks like I'm about a year and a half late to the party but this is far and away the most interesting trend I've stumbled across recently!

Todd Sundsted

great card game! #illimat #decemberists

Todd Sundsted

seriously? there's no Foo Bar?

Todd Sundsted

don't operate on production databases. repeat. don't operate on production databases.

Todd Sundsted

wow ripgrep *is* fast...!

Todd Sundsted

it's a pretty sad state of affairs when your brain reads -2 as 254...

Todd Sundsted

when you're put on hold the on hold music is classical and not thrash metal or hardcore punk... but seriously eine kleine nachtmusik is not calming me right now...

Todd SundstedBob Mottram