sometimes i feel like building software is akin to throwing myself off a cliff and then hoping i can build the thing i envisioned a moment ago before i hit the ground. does anyone else get that?

i decided to tear apart the monolithic editor in #ktistec and to replace it with a configurable system of editing components. how hard could that be, i thought... well, the ground approaches and i only just got a just-about-works proof-of-concept complete!

I just upgraded litestream on my epiktistes.com server from v0.5.3 to v0.5.6 and I am cautiously optimistic. v0.5.3 had a bug that filled up my storage, pegged the CPU, and generally broke my server by locking my ktistec database for 10-20 seconds at a time. I am posting this to deliberately test fate! C'mon... if you're gonna fail again, then fail and get it over with!

#litestream

The Best of Bootie Mashup 2025 tracks dropped a couple weeks ago.

I've gotten to the point where the mashups are more recognizable than the original tunes...

#dj #mashups

I’m wondering if there are any common or standard approaches to modeling RSS feeds as ActivityPub objects?

I’m thinking of an RSSFeed actor and RSSPost or something for the items but I’d love to follow established patterns.

Friendica supports RSS feeds. Maybe that’s a good place to start?

#ActivityPub

The two big features in release v3.2.7 of Ktistec are back end support for creating polls (the front end is coming in the next release) and advanced theming support—specifically, a rich vocabulary of CSS class values and data attributes on which to build a theme. The full set is documented in the README. I'll post more on how I'm using these later this week.

Here is the full set of notable changes:

Added

• Back-end support for creating polls.
• Advanced theming support with new classes, data attributes, and view helpers.
• Task status display on admin page showing running and imminently scheduled task counts.

Fixed

• Poll vote form now correctly submits Question ID.

Changed

• Move location of Ktistec version notice. (fixes #133)
• Updated admin page for better accessibility and less clutter.

#ktistec #crystallang #activitypub #fediverse

working with ameba has been a treat. #ktistec is now all properly linted.

out of a few dozen rules, i disabled only five and tweaked the configuration of five more. that's a pretty good set of defaults. i also added a few custom rules covering spec hygiene. i highly recommend it!

#crystallang #ameba

adding ameba to #ktistec.

#crystallang #ameba

@admin fwiw, i followed a few cities a few days ago and now my server is being bombarded by weather reports for dozens/hundreds(?) of cities i didn't follow.