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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.
🏆 Yak-shave accomplished!
I tore apart the monolithic editor in #ktistec and replaced it with a configurable framework of editor components—including a component for editing polls.
I'm planning to work on an editor component for managing attachments next.
sometimes i feel like building software is akin to throwing myself off a cliff and then hoping i can build the thing i envisioned a moment ago before i hit the ground. does anyone else get that?
i decided to tear apart the monolithic editor in #ktistec and to replace it with a configurable system of editing components. how hard could that be, i thought... well, the ground approaches and i only just got a just-about-works proof-of-concept complete!
I just upgraded litestream on my epiktistes.com server from v0.5.3 to v0.5.6 and I am cautiously optimistic. v0.5.3 had a bug that filled up my storage, pegged the CPU, and generally broke my server by locking my ktistec database for 10-20 seconds at a time. I am posting this to deliberately test fate! C'mon... if you're gonna fail again, then fail and get it over with!
What about a shiny Crystal 1.19.0 release for the new year?
The compiler now uses execution contexts and parallel LLVM codegen on all targets (including Windows) a new Time::Instant type, compile time flags with values, and many runtime improvements and fixes.
See all the details in the release notes: https://crystal-lang.org/2026/01/15/1.19.0-released/
The Best of Bootie Mashup 2025 tracks dropped a couple weeks ago.
I've gotten to the point where the mashups are more recognizable than the original tunes...
I’m wondering if there are any common or standard approaches to modeling RSS feeds as ActivityPub objects?
I’m thinking of an RSSFeed actor and RSSPost or something for the items but I’d love to follow established patterns.
Friendica supports RSS feeds. Maybe that’s a good place to start?
The two big features in release v3.2.7 of Ktistec are back end support for creating polls (the front end is coming in the next release) and advanced theming support—specifically, a rich vocabulary of CSS class values and data attributes on which to build a theme. The full set is documented in the README. I'll post more on how I'm using these later this week.
Here is the full set of notable changes:
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