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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.
It's the month of Halloween, so of course...
We're reaching for the stars! 🚀✨
Just as 1.18 is released, over 20k users have starred the Crystal repo on GitHub 🌟
This release of Ktistec merges the main_3.x branch into the main branch.
Managing two branches, and two releases, was a lot of work. And sometimes changes were lost in the shuffle, like:
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I have about a dozen more features and fixes that are ready for the next release, but to keep things simple, I'm doing the merge first, in its own commit.
I’ve been writing about Ruby’s callcc and thinking about continuations, so I challenged myself to write some poetry about tail call optimization. That should keep me busy on this flight for a few hours, at least. Now, what rhymes with “continuation”?
We've just released Crystal 1.18.1 - a small bugfix version that solves two regressions.
Go check the release notes and update accordingly!
https://crystal-lang.org/2025/10/17/1.18.1-released/
One of the things I love about arriving to/departing from Paris is the extensive graffiti alongside the road.
Extra, extra - Crystal 1.18.0 is out now!
You can check the full release notes to see what's inside: https://crystal-lang.org/2025/10/14/1.18.0-released/
I’ve been asking every taxi/car driver to show me their favorite artist/musician/band/etc. So far, I have: Black Coffee, Adam Port, (Afro House, in general), French Montana, and Low Deep T. Probably not statistically significant but a very good starting point.
i grew up in the western united states, so terrain like this reminds me of home.
