Giacomo Leidi
daveThe next @spritely office hours is happening on Wednesday, May 27th. See the forum thread for details:
https://community.spritely.institute/t/next-office-hours-on-5-27/825
Next office hours on 5/27
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, May 27th 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 whoever shows up. The meeting will be held on Big Blue Button. Use the following link to join: Spritely Office Hours If you’d like to queue up something on the agenda ahead of time, please reply in this thread with your topic/question. Otherwise, just drop in and share what you’re interested in when ...
FediMTLChristine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet
Christine Lemmer-Webber - Building a Humane Social Internet
The Spritely InstituteWe’re excited to announce the release of Spritely Goblins 0.18.0! This release features a new caching layer called “sleepy actors”, OCapN protocol updates, and numerous bug fixes. So get cozy by the fire, pull out a steaming cup of tea, and let’s have a nice relaxing read about this exciting new Goblins release! https://spritely.institute/news/spritely-goblins-v0-18-0-sleepy-actors.html
Jonathan FredericksonNew blog post about something I realized this morning re: potential chat apps that could let you pass around capabilities: https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/structured-messaging.html
In summary: I think message contents should also be treated as structured data rather than just as strings! Feels like something I should have realized sooner, but it's funny how the brain doesn't always make connections that seem obvious in retrospect
Christine Lemmer-WebberWastrel milestone: full hoot support, with generational gc as a treat https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/04/09/wastrel-milestone-full-hoot-support-with-generational-gc-as-a-treat
What's this? A Hoot REPL? A NATIVELY COMPILED EXECUTABLE @spritely Hoot REPL?
What? That can't be right, can it?
IT IS!
- Hoot: A Scheme -> WebAssembly toolkit and compiler, includes its own REPL
- Whippet: A new generational GC by @wingo
- Wastrel: A WASM->C compiler also by @wingo which can even compile WASM-GC by embedding Whippet
WHICH MEANS!!! Hoot's REPL, compiled to WASM, can be compiled to C compiled to a native executable WITH GC included by Whippet
If you aren't like HOLY FUCKING SHIT then you are MISSING IT because OMFG
Also consider: Hoot is basically an implementation of Guile. WHICH ALSO MEANS we now have a path to build statically compiled versions of Hoot-compatible Guile programs!
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minimoysmagicianHey @spritely!
You have lot's of lovely artwork, but is there an 'official' logo?
Which image am I encouraged to use when presenting the projects I'm excited about?
I'm asking, because this is about recognition of your project and some uniformity can be useful there?
The stylistic Erlenmeyer flask, a sketched version, or "spritely" in a purple-blue cloud, ...