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

what does this even mean...?

Todd Sundsted

if I let the recommendation engines think for me, what purpose do I serve?

Todd Sundsted

the hyperparameters are killing me...

Todd Sundsted

people still use silverlight...!

Todd Sundsted

can't we define 
a documentation typeclass 
with types for specific documentation artifacts 
then we could compile 
our documentation 
into an executable 
that would generate 
readable documentation 
in various forms

#pointfreeverse

Todd Sundsted

usually i am not sympathetic, but seriously, these were not "sysadmins". these were people using a distro with a very poor default configuration.

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Why+we+Dont+Deserve+the+Internet+Memcached+Reflected+DDoS+Attacks/23389/

Todd Sundsted

this entire project is dependencies

Todd Sundsted

"a *clobber* of docker microservices..." that feels like about the right collective noun...

Todd Sundsted

second loss in a row playing pandemic legacy season two. i love the game, but i just don't feel like i have a handle on strategy

Todd Sundsted

“A lot of people experience a curious phenomenon when they start using Haskell: Once your code compiles it usually works.”

https://wiki.haskell.org/Why_Haskell_just_works

3.5 years, 60+ microservices, and thousands and thousands of lines of code later, I confidently state that this aphorism needs to be slain