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

i'm just going to read all of the documentation on org-mode. like a lot of emacs-based tooling, i've picked it up piecemeal over years of use. the more i learn the more i realize it could do more if i invested time in learning more. so i'm going in...

maybe next i'll read the documentation on magit. same story...

#orgmode #emacs

Todd Sundsted
Todd Sundsted

rpg question of the night... grapple a medusa?

#dnd5e #rpg

Todd Sundsted
game day

brian boru is a combination of card drafting and trick taking. to win you need to claim cities, defend against vikings, build monasteries and make political marriages. even with five players play is brisk. after one playthough my advice is to not be the player with the weakest defense against the vikings—it cost me a card every round to free the captured city.

#boardgame #brianboru

Todd Sundsted
before
after

as a little side project i’ve been cleaning a box of rusty tools I picked up a while back. they’re not in terrible shape, but they’re more pleasing when they’re rust free.

i started with a vinegar bath and steel brush, but the brush alone works well enough.

#analogskills #repair

Todd Sundsted

the only place i've found with a raspberry pi zero 2 w in stock is canakit, but it includes a bunch of parts that i don't need. i wonder how desperate i really am...

#raspberrypi

Todd Sundsted

was thinking about nfts today and decided to register the domain stupidatscale.com

#stupidatscale

Todd Sundstedalexanderadam

RT @argyleink@twitter.com

How to query a database from CSS
✅ SQLite
✅ Houdini

```#css
.query-display {
background: paint(sql-css);
}

main {
--sql-query: SELECT * FROM genre;
--sql-database: url(...);
}
```

Some creative stuff! Read all about it here leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can

🐦🔗: twitter.com/argyleink/status/1

Todd Sundsted

i've been experimenting with various kinds of natural sounds/noises as ambient background during heads-down work (rainfall, waves, thunder, even trains...). first of all, i'm amazed at how effective it is for enhancing concentration—i wished i'd discovered this years ago. natural sounds (vs. artificial or even ambient music) also seem to improve my mood. stereo seems to work better than mono. i'd love to hear what others have discovered and are using.

#noise

Todd Sundsted

i’m a big fan of sakara, but the meal plans are expensive. luckily the founders published a cookbook and i just made an amazing salad.

eight cups of kale
ginger, jalapeño and lime
mango chutney
kale salad with forbidden rice