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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.
i spent most of the summer cleaning up the codebase of my covid project (aka ktistec).
in theory, ruthlessly refactoring should be a pleasure. truth be told, i don't enjoy it as much as building new features. nonetheless, everyone else—including my future self—should find things more consistent.
things i did include replacing ecr templates with slang templates, using form helpers to make forms behave more consistently and to reduce boilerplate, etc. etc. etc. i also moved from turbolinks to turbo, which allowed me to remove my custom code for making updates to parts of a page. i know it's not cool but i'm a fan of html over the wire. i also fixed/improved timeline handling and refactored population/management of timelines and notifications. i really need to refactor handling of all side-effects—i just found another place in the code where out-of-order messages result in duplicates in the inbox.
(interesting aside about that... it's possible to get a forwarded create activity from a source before receiving the create activity from the origin itself. it's not surprising in retrospect. the origin was busy sending to followers and i was in the queue. meanwhile, another follower who was mentioned in the related object broadcast the activity to their followers...)
with only seven hit points remaining and having already used relentless endurance, atorash, the half-orc ranger, races around a table to close with the griffon...
i guess i'd never watched the video... this is just hilarious...
schedule for the 2021 eff track at dragon con:
dragon con is next week. am i ready?
awaiting henri
the williamsburg bridge.
i took time off this summer to enjoy the analog world and play board games, but i did make some small progress in a few areas.
commits 31260ad through d6b35cb fix various bugs and performance problems and improve the user experience:
there's a bunch of work under the hood, as well—mostly deferred refactoring and cleanup.
in parallel, i'm still working on metrics collection and charts. here's a teaser:
twenty five years ago...
Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
Alan D. Sokal