The Spritely Project

Spritely is building the future of the social web: distributed programming, virtual worlds, etc.

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

Horray, the ActivityPub Conference 2020 videos are live! Which is great news because this presentation is probably the best overview of Spritely that's been made for a general audience yet! https://t.co/64bjvgoaAS

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

I'm so excited! I think the Scheme Primer is a really useful document not only for people interested in Scheme who want to get started fast, but also for people who want the distillation of some deeper computer science ideas but don't know where to start! https://t.co/k94dwngY7v

[Spritely Networked Communities Institute @spritelyinst]

We've published A Scheme Primer! https://t.co/NCHXpBunTa
Blogpost: https://t.co/kjMT2HzG4Q

This primer serves as a quick skim tutorial to get started fast, or as a more in-depth read... ending with the finale of a 30 line example of a Scheme interpreter written in Scheme!

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

New post on the Spritely blog! @Tsyesika writes about "Petname Systems"! https://t.co/j8uQbpLkdv

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

I gave two talks at FOSDEM this year. Both of the recordings are now up!

Lisp, but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone (co-presented with @mlemweb) https://t.co/PN8MtwFLWS
Spritely Goblins Comes to Guile: Distributed, secure, asynchronous programming https://t.co/iYCRSs58xw

[Dan FinIay @danfinlay]

Let me just bump this by saying: the proposed design fundamentally addresses the kinds of phishing vectors that we take for granted under web2, as if there is no other way but to laugh at the scammers impersonating anyone freely constantly.

[Dan FinIay @danfinlay]

Get a peek at a new approach to decentralized social networking from a brand new nonprofit org, @spritelyproject https://t.co/KzjNnso9rg

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

The mint example is *the* traditional (but not only) example given for why synchronous operations are needed in ocap "vat" based systems. With no prior background, @Tsyesika shattered that claim on *week two* on the job!

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

Digital cash in an asynchronous environment https://t.co/pFpDv5z9yg

In which Spritely developer @tsyesika demonstrates a brilliantly simple asynchronous bank design!

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

@kate_sills High praise coming from you! :)

[Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber @mlemweb]

Wondering what @dustyweb has been up to in Spritely for the last year? Look no further! in this week's episode of @fossandcrafts Christine gives us an update on the state of the @spritelyproject!

... And I talk about my *very important* contribution ... of costumes!

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

SO MUCH has happened on @spritelyproject in the last year! We do our best to give a condensed version, which people have been asking for! Hope you enjoy!

[FOSS and Crafts @fossandcrafts]

Episode 38: Spritely Updates! (November 2021) https://t.co/sqn6ZRYLIa

It's time for some updates on @spritelyproject and its work to advance decentralized networking technology! There's a lot to discuss including @tsyesika joining the project, a port to Guile, and more!

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

Nobody is more excited than I am! Jessica is one of the most talented programmers I've ever had the pleasure to work with and ActivityPub wouldn't have happened without her hard work. So excited to get to work together every day again!

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

We are THRILLED to announce that Jessica Tallon (@tsyesika) is joining Spritely with a grant from NLNet / NGI Zero to build our petname system! We have a whole interview with her about it! https://t.co/RRdhYLS8GC

Congrats Jessica!

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

The paper Content Addressed Descriptors and Interfaces with Spritely Goblins is now available! https://t.co/sSxTGClJlt

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

I've been working with @frandallfarmer (who has been doing this stuff for a long time) on better explaining the ideas. I look forward to sharing what we've been working on.

In code, I have more these days prototyped, but not enough that sit in users' hands. Working on it...

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

But it's one thing to have the answers. It's another thing for people to understand them.

This requires two things: good explanations, and to be able to get people to experience the solutions themselves.

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

That's the fundamental problem.

The federated social web, as it exists, points at a *portion* of the solution. But not enough. In many ways, it has borrowed centralized assumptions.

That's why I've been in research mode with @spritelyproject. I think we now have the answers.

[octodon.social/@cwebber (Christine Lemmer-Webber) @dustyweb]

Anti-abuse tools which rely on centralized, wholesale surveillance, particularly when such a mechanism is the primary revenue model of that centralized system, can only get more and more abusive to users over time.

[The Spritely Project @spritelyproject]

@rplevy would definitely be interesting to have a clojure port!