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
Todd Sundsted

i wonder how long until someone designs a cryptocurrency to run on one of these machine learning chips...?

Todd Sundsted

IBM explains how much faster their machine learning solution is (apparently to kindergarteners)...

Todd Sundsted

what does this even mean...?

Todd Sundsted

if I let the recommendation engines think for me, what purpose do I serve?

Todd Sundsted

the hyperparameters are killing me...

Todd Sundsted

people still use silverlight...!

Todd Sundsted

can't we define 
a documentation typeclass 
with types for specific documentation artifacts 
then we could compile 
our documentation 
into an executable 
that would generate 
readable documentation 
in various forms

#pointfreeverse

Todd Sundsted

usually i am not sympathetic, but seriously, these were not "sysadmins". these were people using a distro with a very poor default configuration.

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Why+we+Dont+Deserve+the+Internet+Memcached+Reflected+DDoS+Attacks/23389/

Todd Sundsted

this entire project is dependencies