The Real Grunfink

I submitted a Pull Request to update MacPorts' snac to 2.77 here:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/28410

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It's up to someone else with write access to merge it.

Thanks!

Does anybody run a public #snac2 server for users to join?

In love with #Snac

#ThisIsTheWay

@lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @ada@zoner.work snac deals with a lot of JSON strings, all data is stored in JSON files on disk, sent as JSON over network, etc. Handling the data as loosely typed strings most of the time is likely cheaper than marshaling everything into well-typed "objects" and then serializing them back again on I/O. I haven't delved much into the implementation of xs myself, but I used it when I wrote a few patches for snac, and it was acceptable to use. I've been using snac for a few months, and it's much better on resources than any other major AP software I've seen, so I don't have complaints about the performance of parsing doubles :)

I still see snac as "worse-is-better" software, which I don't like much, but at least it's simple enough to start doing meaningful patches within a couple of hours of diving into it, and definitely cheaper for me than having to write a whole AP server from scratch, which I was tempted to do before.

@kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net

in fact it doesn't cause any issue: #snac2 is likely the lightest and best performing #fediverse server out there.

@rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link @lizzy@social.vlhl.dev @ada@zoner.work

I've just updated my #Snac instance to version 2.76 👍 🎉
You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
A simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.

Hopefully Phanpy works better now for folks on #snac . Took me some time to investigate this issue https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/164#issuecomment-4415162 , found that `Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Link` header is needed for `Link` header to be read by the browser's `fetch`, used by Masto.js to paginate requests 🙇‍♂️

Related issue: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/issues/1042

https://comam.es/snac/grunfink/p/1746780654.270315

browsing the #snac code makes me miss my old C books