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

apparently NYC has its own lorem ipsum...

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http://bit.ly/2DywRc2

starting on page 21 ursula k. le guin writes an excellent article on "literary fiction" and "genre fiction".

"There are many bad books. There are no bad genres."

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ursula k. le guin

rest in peace

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not good science by any means, but i would say that most of the animal photos I see on my visible slice of the fediverse are of cats... could there be a connection...?

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#pandemic #legacy #season2

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this is the thing for tonight! #pandemiclegacy #seasontwo

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i love the practice but I *hate* the name "chaos engineering"... maybe "scientific engineering" given the focus on experimentation. or just yank the cable and see what happens and fix it. you'll be better off for having tested it.

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all this typing has turned my handwriting into crap

Todd Sundsted

studying algorithmic design. looks like I'm about a year and a half late to the party but this is far and away the most interesting trend I've stumbled across recently!