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.

sometimes i wish #activitypub and servers/clients supported both Like and Love activities, for when liking something  isn't strong enough...!

I took a detour and worked on alt text editing in release v3.2.6 rather than continuing with the polls backend. I also continued to fix bugs and to add polish. Here's the full set of changes:

Added

• Support for editing alt text in the Trix editor. (fixes #52)

Fixed

• Render fallback icon when actor is down.
• Remove blank figcaption elements.
• Emojify display names in notifications.

Changed

• Color notifications label by type of unread notifications.
• Render lines instead of points for server starts in metrics.

(I'm editing this post in Markdown—the new feature in the last release!)

#ktistec #crystallang #activitypub #fediverse

Would it be useful to customize the rendering and presentation of posts by actor?

I follow a lot of actors and I get a lot of posts, and I'd like the posts from some actors to stand out, and I'd like the posts from others to be more inconspicuous. Or maybe I want to use color to help visually categorize posts from actors I follow, based on subject matter.

Does this sound like a useful feature?

#ktistec #fediverse