a couple interesting crystal language projects i came across recently:

• crystalizer - serialization of any crystal object
• crystal-byte-protocol - a byte protocol for crystal

the former, in particular, is an annotation free, monkey-patch free solution for quickly serializing/deserializing objects into JSON, YAML or other formats.

i've released more enhancements to ktistec. i'm still working toward an mvp—functionality any socially-oriented activitypub server should implement. recent commits added replies counts to the social signals exposed to the user, and updated the home page to display local activity to anonymous users.

next up: draft posts

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a dog is just a wolf
in the category of pettable

#pointfreeverse

"Many Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite"
https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html

in fact, many small queries can be slightly faster than a single, more complex query, based on testing i'm doing on ktistec. the difference is small—10-15 msec for a complex page on average.

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i ask the engineers i work with to spent 25-50% of their time refactoring before adding new features. these commits are exactly that—six days of cleaning up and small fixes.

i'm working toward a smarter timeline—one that uses social signals and some heuristics to prioritize content since i typically follow too many people/topics/things.

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i dreamt i was outside without a mask.