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
“Understanding breakfast is a complex matter, requiring a command of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, history, geography, religion, modern languages, computer science, ethnography and politics.”

#worldcon

Todd Sundsted

on a separate note, why am i discovering all of the things that don’t work with #ktistec while i am away!?! fetching just stopped for a few hashtags I follow…!

Todd Sundsted

i’m at that point at the con where i just want a quiet corner where i can people watch…

#worldcon

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I am actually really happy about how my mobile-tweaks for #ktistec turned out. There was a lot of #CSS hacking involved, but I am pretty happy with the results :)

Here's a little video of how it looks:

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#worldcon kicked off with dune! the musical. i enthusiastically recommend it if you have a chance to see it.

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view from the street of the national piper center, glasgow

it’s not quite #worldcon yet so we went to the national piping center in glasgow, and I picked up some books and a few pointers.

as fate would have it, the international piping festival is next week in glasgow, as well, so i’ll be doing a wee bit of that, too!

#glasgow #bagpiping

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looking down the royal mile

i just wrapped up a day at the fringe festival in edinburgh. til it’s the world’s largest performing arts festival and there was definitely a lot going on!

#fringe #edinburgh

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the barras market in glasgow scotland

super interesting flea market, second hand, vintage, garage/yard sale

#thebarrasmarket #glasgow

Todd Sundsted

I just released v2.2.0 of Ktistec. A lot of code was written but the main user-visible change is streaming timeline updates to the web client using server-sent events.  The back-end pub/sub framework will also make it easier to decouple some components down the road.

I want a visual indicator that new posts are in my timeline. I appreciate that not everyone feels the same way—if there's interest I may make it switchable.

And now, off to #worldcon!

#ktistec #fediverse #crystallang

Todd Sundsted

heading to #worldcon and to do some #sightseeing in scotland, shortly...