a day of vacation at home before driving to seattle for worldcon.

#pnw #kayaking

i got a custom made shirt for next week!

#worldcon

Ktistec v2.4.8 has many small fixes and improvements, but includes one significant fix to ActivityPub garbage collection, which was the major feature introduced in the last release.

⚠️ Important Note: Building with Crystal Language version 1.17.x is not supported due to two breaking changes. See:

• LibXML_Ext Issues #1
• Crystal Language PR #16055

(Maybe it's three changes—compile times are also far slower and executable sizes are much larger.)

Added

• Send "User-Agent" header identifying Ktistec on outbound HTTP requests.
• Add accept/reject action buttons to top panel on actor pages.

Fixed

• Add index on "username" on "actors" table. (Fixes a regression introduced in e659e84a.)
• Rejection now correctly sets follow relationships as confirmed (previously they remained pending).
• Fix garbage collection issues with threads created in earlier versions.

Changed

• Prioritize the author's self-replies in thread view.

Enjoy!

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang

Ktistec (temporarily) only builds with versions of the Crystal Programming Language 1.16.3 and below. There was a significant change to the libxml integration in the Crystal Standard Library in version 1.17.0. Ktistec implements some extensions on top of the standard library that need to be updated as a result. A permanent fix in in progress.

#ktistec #crystallang #libxml

upcoming plans:

• WorldCon, Seattle, Aug. 13–17, 2025
• Dragon Con, Atlanta, Aug. 28–Sep. 1, 2025

i pains me to miss Gen Con this weekend, but it would be three cons in ~5 weeks!

i think my whole family may make it to dragon con this year—it started out as our annual family vacation, so it's very nice when that still works out.

#worldcon #dragoncon #gencon

i ordered a shirt a while ago from the second weaving of the Worldcon 2024 tartan. it has arrived!

#worldcon #tartan

home sweet scaffolding… it’s nice to be back in NYC…

After a mental health break, release v2.4.7 of Ktistec is out. The biggest improvement is the addition of a command line switch/option to run garbage collection on startup. Garbage collection, in this context, trims down your database by deleting old ActivityPub objects that are not connected to your user through:

• Attribution: Objects attributed to you or actors you follow
• Activities: Objects referenced by your activities or activities of actors you follow
• Collections: Objects in your timeline, notifications, or outbox
• Content: Objects with hashtags, mentions, or in threads you follow

It reduced the size of my database ~24%. Details on usage, warnings, etc. are in the README.

Other changes:

Fixed

• Use single quotes for string literals in SQLite queries.
• Fix WITH RECURSIVE queries.
• Fix broken CI workflow.

Changed

• Present local internal URLs as external URLs in posts.
• Limit pagination size for unauthenticated users.
• Better convey actor/object deleted/blocked status on index pages.
• Improve presentation of inline code and code blocks.
• Clip alt text on thumbnail images.

Other

• Update cached copy of Lemmy's JSON-LD context.

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang

hmm… ‘bout time for the decennial cleanup of my dot emacs file…

#emacs