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

tracking down another avatar of aleksander vinter...

https://soundcloud.com/yungdatakrash

Todd Sundsted
Todd Sundsted

new york comic con day two playing games #worldbuilders

Todd Sundsted

I walk the highline about every six months and every time I'm like "what the heck are they building *now*?!?" #newyork #highline #architecture

Todd Sundsted

let’s encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/) is the fucking JSON of certificate authorities

Todd Sundsted

home-grown cryptography and home-distilled whiskey #downwardspiral

Todd Sundsted

i don't always do pair programming, but when i do, i do it with gin #downwardspiral

Todd Sundsted

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/Giving-you-more-characters-to-express-yourself.html

this kind of "innovation" kind of explains twitter's current situation in the market, i think...

Todd Sundsted

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Todd Sundsted

my family and i are going to be playing d&d with naomi novick at new york comic con in two weeks. this should be pretty interesting. i'm a huge fan of her temeraire series. #worldbuildersparty