New 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

#ocap #spritely

Wastrel 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!

#lisp #guile #spritely

Hey @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, ...

#spritely #spritelyinstitute @dthompson @cwebber @tsyesika

Whoa what on earth is this Scheme evaluation visualization tool named EnvDraw made in Hoot? https://jmacd.github.io/envdraw/

And apparently EnvDraw has existed since 1995 and this is a port! Here's an old mailing list post https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.scheme/c/AU3HKB9plKk/m/TCkArQA51rcJ

Cool as hell

#hoot #spritely

Yay, Spritely Institute (@spritely) presents what the future of distributed social networks might look like:

- https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/HVJRNV-how_to_level_up_the_fediverse/

Decentralized social networks of consent.

For more information read https://spritely.institute

#spritely #activitypub #socialMedia #ocapn #distributed #consent #fediverse