Vacations are wonderful. It is a privilege to be able to travel without worry. It's also wonderful to be home, and to have the time to work on projects I care about. With those thoughts in mind, I present release v3.1.1 of Ktistec, an ActivityPub server written in the Crystal programming language!

This release is a mixed bag of small features and improvements:

Added

• Auto-link URLs in posts. (fixes #24)
• Support searching by actor username. (fixes #102)
• Support hourly granularity in metrics charts.

Fixed

• Mark actor as down if refresh fails.
• Remove draft posts from the everything collection.
• Ignore charts with no points in the date range.
• Ensure HTTP::Client instances are closed.

I added support for multiple users at the beginning of the month. I'm very interested in feedback on how that's working out for anyone using it.

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang

It's the month of Halloween, so of course...

This release of Ktistec merges the main_3.x branch into the main branch.

Managing two branches, and two releases, was a lot of work. And sometimes changes were lost in the shuffle, like:

Added

• Add a small banner to highlight "offline" status.
• Support YAML MCP prompts and hot-reloading.

I have about a dozen more features and fixes that are ready for the next release, but to keep things simple, I'm doing the merge first, in its own commit.

#ktistec #fediverse #activitypub #crystallang

I’ve been writing about Ruby’s callcc and thinking about continuations, so I challenged myself to write some poetry about tail call optimization. That should keep me busy on this flight for a few hours, at least. Now, what rhymes with “continuation”?

TIL Ruby has callcc. 

#ruby #til

One of the things I love about arriving to/departing from Paris is the extensive graffiti alongside the road. 

#Paris #CommunicationWithoutPermission #graffiti

I’ve been asking every taxi/car driver to show me their favorite artist/musician/band/etc. So far, I have: Black Coffee, Adam Port, (Afro House, in general), French Montana, and Low Deep T. Probably not statistically significant but a very good starting point.

#Morocco  #Marrakech #FavoriteMusic