✩ News Archive ✩
Growing a Networked Garden with Spritely Goblins
Fri 16 December 2022Hello! This is David Thompson, Spritely Institute’s new Core Infrastructure Architect! I’m writing this post on a Friday, at the end of my first week here, to share my experience with Spritely Goblins so far. My goal for this week was to learn as much as I could about actors, object capabilities, and the Goblins API in order to create a small demo program to demonstrate my progress. I had my work cut out for me because, although I'm very comfortable with Scheme and functional programming, the domain of object capability security is one in which I have no prior experience (aside from studying and providing feedback on The Heart of Spritely before I joined!)
Two petnames papers are released!
Wed 26 October 2022Unique decentralized identifiers present significant human interface challenges. We begin to address these with two research papers exploring petnames, self-proclaimed names, and edge names.
We are hiring!
Thu 20 October 2022We're hiring: Operations Specialist / Bookkeeper & Core Infrastructure Architect
NLnet grant bootstraps OCapN protocol standardization effort!
Wed 19 October 2022
Blast off! A tour of Spritely Institute's tech
Wed 17 August 2022
Greetings! Now that we’ve announced the FFDW grant, things are getting serious over here at Spritely Networked Communities Institute (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.) Which means it’s time to talk about our technology!FFDW Grant & DWebCamp: our decentralized community industry debut
Wed 17 August 2022
Ein Scheme-Primer
SNCI CTO interviewed @RadicalXChange podcast
Thu 21 July 2022RadicalxChange(s) latest episode is an in-depth interview with our CTO, Christine Lemmer-Webber. There is a lot of conceptual territory covered in this discussion, with a focus on our work at Spritely Institute starting at 47:15.
Spritely Institute publishes a Scheme Primer
Wed 06 July 2022We are pleased to announce that we have published a new Scheme Primer! (PDF) (source) We primarily wrote this for the benefit of people approaching Spritely's technology who were unfamiliar with Scheme, but since the lack of a good Scheme introductory document is a common complaint, we hope this is a useful contribution in general and a gift to the wider programming language community.
Heart of Spritely whitepaper early draft released!
Fri 24 June 2022We now have a rough draft of our whitepaper, The Heart of Spritely: Distributed Objects and Capability Security! (PDF) (ODT) (ORG)
Interview: Mark S. Miller on Distributed Objects, Part 1
Wed 01 June 2022Spritely Institute CTO Christine Lemmer-Webber just released part one of a podcast interview with Mark S. Miller, talking about the history of secure capability programming.
Spritely Institute 501(c)(3) approval!
Sat 23 April 2022Spritely Networked Communities Institute received its 501(c)(3) approval letter today. What does this mean? We are now a tax-exempt nonprofit in the United States!
Project Spritely continues as part of Spritely Insitute!
Sat 01 January 2022Spritely Networked Communities Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation attempting to re-decentralize community on the internet.