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

this week the US House of Representatives proves you’re never too old for high school drama!

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i always end up dusting off tdop parsing...

#tdop #parser

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in jr. high i decided i wanted to be a writer, and i dug out my mother’s old manual typewriter and taught myself to touch type, so this particular christmas gift really hits a sweet spot of nostalgia for me!

lego typewriter kit

#lego

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i released 2.0.0-7 just in time for the new year.  it includes contributions from @relistan and @rahul, the introduction of CI (the build is successful), and bug fixes.

i am slowly working my way toward more flexibility for reading and managing federated content.

#ktistec (as always, it's pronounced "tiz-tek")

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getting starting on my new year's 🥂 resolutions early. added a changelog to ktistec.

the changelog covers changes back to v1.0.0, which was released about this time last year!

#ktistec

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i finally set up ci for ktistec. surprisingly, it only uncovered one mysterious build issue...

#ktistec

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randomizes order of tests. discovers project for today... mood: 😠

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beautiful snowy morning
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i’m struggling with the twitter “reply thread” style of posting. someone shares/boosts an interesting post and i have to hunt for the server to get the full story. that doesn’t seem very “federated”.

many instances aren’t limited to the expected 140 characters or whatever the cap is these days. in fact activitypub, the specification, doesn’t set a limit on post size at all. longer posts are possible, will travel as a complete thought, and are probably more accessible, generally.