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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Dec 3
The Spritely Institute is running its first ever supporter drive. We could really use your help so we can build the future of secure collaboration and decentralized networked technology!

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Spritely characters sitting around a "campfire" built from the construction of a new universe. We want to build new social worlds together!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 4d
Spritely Goblins v0.17.0: Persistence is better than ever! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

Our distributed programming system Goblins has a brand new persistence system named Bloblin which is LIGHTNING fast! Your programs smoothly serialize and BAM, reawaken! Let's go!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Sep 18
It is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to contain the amount of excitement in making this post... We have Shepherd running on Spritely Goblins running ON TOP OF GUIX! See the screenshot!

This is HUGE! We just wrote about Goblins + Shepherd a few days ago but progress is SO FAST! spritely.institute/news/shepher...
Guix with an XFCE desktop running with its init daemon Shepherd running on top of Goblins, on PID 1!!!!!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Sep 17
Double good news about Spritely's Hoot, Our Scheme->WASM compiler!

WASM 3.0 released, and Hoot gets a mention! webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

AND! iOS updated Safari to support the WASM features we use. Which means you can now play Cirkoban anywhere! files.spritely.institute/embeds/cirko...
Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Sep 10
Shepherd × Goblins update! spritely.institute/news/shepher...

Some of you may know that we've been working on porting Shepherd (Guix's init/daemon manager service) to Spritely Goblins. We're getting close! Things run! We even show off a Goblins + Shepherd powered fleet orchestration in the post!
Shepherd × Goblins update — Spritely Institute
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Igalia @igalia.com · Sep 3
🎙 New Episode of Igalia Chats: Yeah, but for what? Wingo on Wasm

@meyerweb.com and @bkardell.com chat with @wingolog.org about Web Assembly

www.igalia.com/chats/wingo-...
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Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Sep 3
Spritely Goblins v0.16.1 has been released! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

This patch release includes several fixes! Most especially, OCapN + Goblins programs stopped compiling to Webassembly with Hoot (oops, it's fixed now!)
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Aug 27
Spritely office hours! At 4pm ET! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...

Learn what #spritely folks are up to! Talk about your own projects! Hang out with us!
Next office hours on 27th of August
We’re going to be holding our next office hours on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). Please feel free to come along to chat or ask questions about all things Spritely. There’ll be...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Aug 18
While not true on a technical level, we'll take it as a compliment on a spiritual reclaim-technology level :)
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Aug 18
We’re going to be holding our next office hours on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...

Tell us what you're hacking on with Spritely tools, tell us how it's going, ask us questions! Hope to see you!
Next office hours on 27th of August
We’re going to be holding our next office hours on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). Please feel free to come along to chat or ask questions about all things Spritely. There’ll be...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Aug 7
Announcing Spritely Goblins v0.16.0! With MAJOR speedups and a brand new Unix Domain Socket netlayer! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

These speedups are HUGE! 10-20x speedups for core operations! And now you can use Goblins + OCapN with Unix Domain Sockets for local inter-process communication!
Spritely Goblins v0.16.0 released! — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Jul 31
Spritely presented spirited speeches spanning the planet! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

If you've missed out on some of the many speeches we've given this year, here's a nice summary! Enjoy!
Spritely presented spirited speeches spanning the planet — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Jun 16
Datalog in miniKanren deosjr.github.io/dynamicland/...

And it's using @spritelyinst.bsky.social's Hoot to compile to Webassembly! It's so cool when things like this appear in the wild and you don't even know someone was working on it!
A browser with Wasm GC and tail call support is required for this demo. We recommend using either Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Jun 4
Goblinville: A Spring Lisp Game Jam 2025 retrospective spritely.institute/news/goblinv...

This spring for the Lisp Game Jam we wanted to show off something realtime using @spritelyinst.bsky.social's tools and protocol, so we built a browser-based walk-around-chat-and-plant-things game!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Jun 4
Goblinville: A Spring Lisp Game Jam 2025 retrospective spritely.institute/news/goblinv...

We made a cute lil' multiplayer walk-around-and-plant-things demo for the last lisp game jam using Goblins, Hoot, and OCapN!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · May 21
Functional hash tables explained spritely.institute/news/functio...

In this new blogpost, @flockofbirbs.bsky.social talks about the theory behind HAMT based immutable hashtables, and how Goblins on Guile uses them for our new immutable hashtable representation!
Functional hash tables explained — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · May 6
Not only do we have the exciting news about Oaken today, but also there's a new patch release out: Hoot v0.6.1! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-...

New, easier deployment of Hoot programs with --bundle! A load of fixes! Lots of things!

(And just in time for the Lisp Game Jam, next week!)
Hoot 0.6.1 released! — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · May 6
Announcing Spritely Oaken: a project to build a secure language execution environment for Guile Scheme! Funded by NLNet and NGI Zero! spritely.institute/news/announc...

Blogpost by Oaken's lead author, @daphne.preston-kendal.eu!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Apr 8
Successful supporter drive supplements Spritely's story spritely.institute/news/2024-20...

Over $90k raised! Over 500 individual donors!

Our fundraiser was a success, and so we talk about it! We've been working on pushing out the rewards, we include lovely quotes from donors, etc!

THANK YOU!!!!!!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Mar 26
Spritely Goblins v0.15.1 is released! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

Lots of little bugs fixed, including many from the community! It's been great to see so many people trying out Goblins, keep it up! 💜
Spritely Goblins v0.15.1 released! — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Feb 4
Thank you! As I write this we have ONE HOUR LEFT of our campaign and we have raised OVER $85k!!!! spritely.institute/donate/

THANK YOU EVERYONE! And if you haven't supported @spritelyinst.bsky.social yet please do so! And thank you to those who have!

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1 hour left of Spritely's campaign! $85k raised! Let's gooooo!!!!!
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Feb 4
With TWO HOURS TO GO left on Spritely's supporter drive I am gonna give a LIVE THREAD about why you should support @spritelyinst.bsky.social and why I am SO PROUD OF THE WORK WE ARE DOING HERE! spritely.institute/donate/

Let's gooooooo!!!! 🧵
2 hours left and $84.5k raised!
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Feb 2
The @spritely crew will be giving a lot of talks today at FOSDEM in the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom today!

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Live stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/h1308
Spritely is going to Guix Days and FOSDEM — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Jan 24
As foretold! Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT... Goblins in the browser!!! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

You can even try a real little running mini chatroom using Goblins and OCapN, right in the blogpost!

This has been SUCH a major effort from the whole Spritely team! Goblins + Hoot! Horray!
Spritely Goblins mascot riding on the Spritely Hoot mascot's back, flying in the air! Onwards and upwards!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Jan 24
Spritely Goblins 0.15.0 is OUT! Goblins in the browser AT LAST! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

You can even try a Goblins chat program talking over OCapN in the blogpost!

As long prophesied! Goblins on Hoot at last!
Spritely Goblins mascot riding on the black of the Spritely Hoot mascot's back! They're flying in the air and going on an adventure!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · Jan 22
Guile Hoot 0.6.0 RELEASED! spritely.institute/news/guile-h...

It's a big one! Lots of improvements all around!

(And hey look, the Hoot and Goblins mascots are hanging out! Could this be foreshadowing another upcoming announcement enabled by this release?!?!)
The Spritely Goblins and Spritely Hoot mascots hanging out, talking about going on an adventure! The artwork is a 4-color pixel art reminiscent of a mid/late 1990s style era handheld game
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