We're working hard to make it easier to hack on Spritely tech *without* needing to install anything special... just an ordinary browser! Check out this screenshot of the work-in-progress Hoot IDE, featuring a "picture language" generating pretty graphics-inside-code!

Office hours happening now! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...

The Spritely Institute@spritelyinst.bsky.social · last mo.

Spritely office hours happening today! Coming up real soon (2pm ET)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Talk to us about our projects, your projects using Spritely, ask us questions, etc!

Spritely office hours happening today! Coming up real soon (2pm ET)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Talk to us about our projects, your projects using Spritely, ask us questions, etc!

Next office hours on 6/24

Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, June 24th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). This is our recurring monthly meeting where we chat about all things Spritely! The agenda is set by wh...

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Tomorrow! In Toronto! Come see @flockofbirbs.bsky.social and I talk at Open World Map about how @spritelyinst.bsky.social uses game development and game jams to advance network freedom! luma.com/8nvmyatm It's no cost to attend so register and come hang out with us!

Open World Map: Digital Sovereignty for Game Creators · Luma

Join us for a technocritical day of demos, inspiration, and workshops towards a more open digital world for game creators! Enshittified platforms and…

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Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Hope to cya there! <3

Hoot 0.9.0 released! With several quality of life improvements and bugfixes! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-... And just in time for the Lisp Game Jam, which starts Friday! itch.io/jam/spring-l...

People keep sending us the article about OpenAI banning "goblins". Spritely does not use generative AI in any of its work. Nonetheless, it is hard to deny that Spritely Goblins, our distributed programming environment, is too cool and easy to obsess over, too powerful. We will not apologize for this

Spritely office hours today! Come hang out, hear what's happening, and talk about what you're working on or interested in! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...

Next office hours on 4/29

Reminder: this is happening tomorrow!

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We’re excited to announce Spritely Goblins 0.18.0! Featuring new caching layer called “sleepy actors”, OCapN protocol updates, and numerous bug fixes! Get cozy by the fire, get a nice cup of tea, and have a relaxing read about this exciting new Goblins release! spritely.institute/news/spritel...

Spritely crew members @dustyweb.bsky.social and @flockofbirbs.bsky.social will be speaking at QCon London 2026 about "Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet" on March 18th! qconlondon.com/presentation...

QCon London 2026 | Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.

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Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-... For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!

Impeccable curation: Right after I talked about 4 ways to ♥️/👿 browsers, @flockofbirbs.bsky.social @spritelyinst.bsky.social is up next saying break up the browser monoliths, browsers should just be a shell for WASM.

Eli Mallon@iame.li · 6mo ago

@mosh.bsky.social in the morning!

Couldn't make it to #FOSDEM? Here's a list of talks by #spritely folks, including me, plus a list of talks I just recommend! social.coop/@cwebber/116...

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyinst.bsky.social We have the skills and underlying tech, but we need resources to fund it. Feel free to reach out.

Coming to #FOSDEM? Come see the #Spritely crew speak! We've got a whole bunch of exciting talks lined up this year! community.spritely.institute/t/spritely-f...

Spritely @ FOSDEM

Christine, Jessica, and myself will be presenting several talks at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels this weekend on 1/31 and 2/1. Click on links to individual talks to stream them live or watch afte...

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Mandy: ActivityPub on Spritely Goblins! spritely.institute/news/mandy-a... Jessica Tallon, co-author of ActivityPub and Spritely engineer, discusses a proof of concept ActivityPub application combining the actor model properties of Spritely Goblins and ActivityPub alike!

I've said a lot, there's more that can be said, but instead I'll switch to the ask. Does the above resonate with you? @spritelyinst.bsky.social could really, truly use your help. Consider donating. I promise we'll put it to good use. spritely.institute/donate/ Let's build a better internet! 💜

But what does it mean for systems to be social? Here's something you can't do on either ActivityPub or ATProto, but is a demo we built with Goblins and OCapN: a collaborative farming game! spritely.institute/news/goblinv...

And we're still building key infrastructure. Goblins recently got a major upgrade to its persistence system: spritely.institute/news/spritel... And it's about to get another one. Not really yet announced, but we're working on a hot-cache system that loads actors from store on demand. It's neat!

We also recently put out a blogpost and demo of a chat system that *nobody* centrally hosts called "Brassica Chat" spritely.institute/news/composi... You can try on it on the page. It's a demo, but it's a step towards secure communication for a hostile world.

We're big believers in having tangible examples of tech so people can understand and it's not just vaporware. Sometimes that's challenging to do with low-level tech in development. But games are a great way to show things off! Unusually, Spritely has a whole arcade page! spritely.institute/arcade/

We're building cool tech: - Goblins, p2p distributed programming: spritely.institute/goblins/ - Hoot, a WebAssembly toolkit (and Scheme->WASM compiler) spritely.institute/hoot/ - OCapN, a secure distributed p2p networked protocol ocapn.org But... what are we *doing* with these things?

User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit. And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab. So... what are we doing?

I love computers. When people say "Computers were a mistake!" it makes me sad. But it's had to blame people. The direction computers have gone in, the experience people largely have had, is a loss of agency and empowerment. How do we bring that back, and do better than ever even?

What can we do? Is there hope? Is it possible to build something better? Spritely was born out of this work, and the strive to create infrastructure allowing for "Networks of Consent". More on that here: spui25.nl/programma/we...

Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults

Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumption...

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*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do? (Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )

#fediday2025 Christine Lemmer-Webber - Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis

Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis (EN) Christine Lemmer-Webber, The Spritely Institute Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the ActivityPub specification, frames the work of dece...

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@spritelyinst.bsky.social is developing some damn cool tech: Distributed programming! Leading the way on a secure P2P protocol (OCapN)! A WebAssembly toolkit! But: is "cool tech" what matters? *Why* are we trying to make cool tech? What are the *social implications* of making this technology?

For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritelyinst.bsky.social, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/ Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵

Local-first chat using CRDTs meets object capability security using @spritelyinst.bsky.social's tech!

The Spritely Institute@spritelyinst.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi... Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!

Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi... Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!