in ktistec news, commits 4d2f699 through 4d2f699 include several improvements and bug fixes. highlights:

• at runtime, the KTISTEC_DB environment variable overrides the default location for the SQLite database file. i use this during testing. it may be useful for some deployments.
• the background TaskWorker now kicks off as soon as a new task is scheduled. the previous implementation polled for new work every five seconds.
• i collected all inbox/outbox side-effects in one location. this makes mailbox processing easier to reason about, and also made it easier to prevent a race condition that resulted in the same object being added to the timeline more than once†.
• images are lazy loaded in browsers that support loading="lazy".

i'm also now only one feature away—blocking actors and objects—from tagging the 1.0.0 release.

† the race condition occurs when an activity, like a create, arrives that takes a long time to validate, maybe because ids need to be dereferenced. while it's being validated, an announce activity arrives for the same object. now two activities for the same object are being processed concurrently. being added to a timeline is a side-effect, and collecting all side-effects in one location made it easier to put the duplicate check after validation but before any side-effects, which saved me from having to unwind side-effects if a duplicate was detected.

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