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

“A lot of people experience a curious phenomenon when they start using Haskell: Once your code compiles it usually works.”

https://wiki.haskell.org/Why_Haskell_just_works

3.5 years, 60+ microservices, and thousands and thousands of lines of code later, I confidently state that this aphorism needs to be slain

Todd Sundsted

apparently NYC has its own lorem ipsum...

Todd Sundsted

http://bit.ly/2DywRc2

starting on page 21 ursula k. le guin writes an excellent article on "literary fiction" and "genre fiction".

"There are many bad books. There are no bad genres."

Todd Sundsted

ursula k. le guin

rest in peace

Todd Sundsted

not good science by any means, but i would say that most of the animal photos I see on my visible slice of the fediverse are of cats... could there be a connection...?

Todd Sundsted

#pandemic #legacy #season2

Todd Sundsted

this is the thing for tonight! #pandemiclegacy #seasontwo

Todd Sundsted
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