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...

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...

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!

🎙 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-...

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!)

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!

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!

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 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!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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!)

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!

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!!!!!!

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! 💜

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! 💜💜💜💜💜

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!!!! 🧵

The @spritely crew will be giving a lot of talks today at FOSDEM in the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom today! spritely.institute/news/spritel... fosdem.org/2025/schedul... Live stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/h1308

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 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!

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?!?!)

Spritely's community office hours in half an hour (2pm ET) today! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... (PLUS, we've got an exciting announcement coming up... in mere moments...!!!!)

In ten minutes I'll be doing a livestream of making artwork for the Spritely Goblins / Hoot releases! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmq... This is kind of an impromptu thing, I'll be using Blender and Grease Pencil, if you'd like to join and follow along!

The whole Spritely engineering team is heading to Guix Days and FOSDEM! And we're giving a whole bunch of talks! spritely.institute/news/spritel... Hope to see you there! :)

I'm so happy that @spritelyinst.bsky.social made its $80k goal! Thank you everyone, really and truly 💜 We have three weeks left! So we've announced a new stretch goal! spritely.institute/news/2024-20... Goblins playground, live in the browser! Cirkoban, our Goblins+Hoot demo game, DELUXE edition!

Thanks to your support we've passed our $80k goal! THANK YOU EVERYONE!!! We've got three weeks left so we've also announced a stretch goal! spritely.institute/news/2024-20... An interactive browser-based Goblins playground! A DELUXE version of our block-pushing, circuit-building game Cirkoban!

OMG! @spritelyinst.bsky.social hit the main goal for its supporter drive! THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us so far! 💜 spritely.institute/donate/ We still have 3 weeks left! We'll be announcing a stretch goal soon! But most importantly... THANK YOU everyone!!! 💜

OMG! We hit our supporter drive fundraising goal! 3 weeks early!!! spritely.institute/donate/ This means so much, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has supported us and our mission to build the next generation of secure, decentralized, community-driven networked tech so far! 💜💜💜💜💜

Seriously you get to appear in video game credits for helping advance the future of the internet by supporting Spritely! spritely.institute/donate/ Advancing the internet! Appearing in video game credits! What a deal!

Hello! It's another day of our supporter drive! spritely.institute/donate And today is the last of the "Tech Values" threads: spritely.institute/about/ Today's tech value / design goal is "Fun as a Revolutionary Act"! Hey! We mean it! Let's get into why!

You know, there's nothing like seeing the leadership of large corporate social media fail so terribly at understanding what "free speech" actually means and the needs of marginalized groups to remind ourselves: we're glad we're working seriously on community-oriented communication tech. Onwards!

Hello! Continuing with our "what are Spritely's technical values/design goals" threads... spritely.institute/about/ Today we are talking about: - Participatory, gatekeeper-free technology - We should not pretend we can prevent what we cannot - Contribute to the commons Let's go!

Hello! The fundraiser is going strong! We're nearly at $60k of our $80k goal! spritely.institute/donate/ Today we're going to go through a few more of our technical values: "User empowerment and fostering agency", "Contextual communication", and "Decentralized is the default"! Let's go!

Somewhat of a niche interest post maybe, but if you're into #guix and #spritely BOTH, maybe you'll be excited to hear that we now have a Guix channel for bleeding edge versions of Goblins and Hoot! gitlab.com/spritely/spr...

Care about the future of the internet? Considering a last-minute donation for the year? Consider supporting out fundraiser! spritely.institute/donate/ The Spritely Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which means in the US, donations are tax-deductible! Any support you can give helps a lot! 💜

Continuing with our "Technical Values and Design Goals", today's is "healthy communities"! spritely.institute/about/ Of course, "healthy communities" isn't something we can design ourselves, but it's something our tech can help enable, value, and plan for! 🧵

Hello! Continuing with our walk through Spritely's Technical Values and Design Goals, today's is "networks of consent": spritely.institute/about/ This one expands the vision of "secure collaboration", which we discussed yesterday, and ties together both social and technical goals! 🧵

We have some new followers since the launch of our supporter drive (ty!) spritely.institute/donate/ For the next few days we're going to go through each of our Technical Values and Design Goals. spritely.institute/about/ Today's is "Secure collaboration". Let's talk about what that means to us!

Hello! We're an organization working on advancing the future of decentralized networks! We're also running a supporter drive right now: spritely.institute/donate But in this thread we'd like to talk about our mission statement! spritely.institute/about/

Want to see us keeping pushing the boundaries on who decides what social media should be? (Spoiler alert: we think it should be the user) Please fund the Spritely Institute's critical work!

OMG, we just crossed $50k of our $80k goal! spritely.institute/donate/ Thank you everyone who's been supporting us in our work to level up the internet! We're excited to work with you all to build a better future for everyone! 💜

Well I am awake and finally at my computer and you know last night the @spritelyinst.bsky.social campaign was at just under $20k and lemme just refresh it this morning I hope we finally made it over that line and spritely.institute/donate/ oh my GOD WOW THANK YOU

@spritelyinst.bsky.social Office Hours in ~ten minutes! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Hope to see ya there! :)

Spritely office hours are later today! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Have something you want to talk about? Code? Roadmap? The fundraiser? Or something else! Let's chat!

@spritelyinst.bsky.social office hours! Tomorrow! Cya there maybe? community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Propose a topic on the above link if you've got one! :)

Heya y'all, I'll be speaking at Guix Social this Thursday about Spritely! www.meetup.com/guix-social/... I'll have a talk, but a lot of it I'm also interested in having be audience conversation about Guix, Spritely, Guile, Scheme, decentralized networks, and what we see as the future together!

We're getting so close to $20k! Now's a great time to donate: help us cross the 25% line of our goal! spritely.institute/donate/ Let's make a better internet for everyone! 💜

I wrote a post on Reddit about how @spritelyinst.bsky.social's Goblins is in many ways "Lambda: the Ultimate Actor Model" for those who might be interested in some computer science nerdery www.reddit.com/r/scheme/com...