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

my lastest ubuntu installation has 2508 packages installed by default.

Todd Sundsted

opinions are important, even in technical discussions, and if you have one you should bring it. but an opinion is ultimately just an appeal to authority -- your authority -- so it's a weak form of argument.

Todd Sundsted

salespeople just need to say, in one sentence, what it is they are selling. everything else, including the back story, comments on the weather or the way the zags played this season, would waste my time if I bothered to read any of it before scanning that first line and hitting delete.

Todd Sundsted

seriously...

slack spam now.

Todd Sundsted

hm... the first reason given for a trusted execution environment is always premium content protection.

Todd Sundsted

who capitalizes "internet" anymore...?

Todd Sundsted

sshd consuming noticeable CPU... brute force sshd attack taking place...

Todd Sundsted

I just stumbled upon this interesting/useful search gesture...

Todd Sundsted

@Gargron@mastodon.social I just pulled the latest commits (a month's worth) and noticed that you've abandoned active cable in favor of a node service. other than in Mastodon, I haven't worked with active cable yet. what prompted you to switch?

Todd Sundsted

god damn I want a holodeck!