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Unique decentralized identifiers present significant human interface challenges. We begin to address these in our two new research papers exploring petnames, self-proclaimed names, and edge names:

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Thanks to Florian Pelz, A Scheme Primer, our tutorial text on foundational Scheme concepts and mindsets, is now available in German! Check it out in various formats below:

RadicalxChange(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, including a survey of various decentralized attempts at recreating big tech solutions, and how Spritely combines computer science research, object capability programming, and an explicit consent model to develop a new paradigm for decentralized and secure distributed social networks.

We 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.

We now have a rough draft of our whitepaper, The Heart of Spritely: Distributed Objects and Capability Security! (PDF) (ODT) (ORG)

Spritely Institute CTO Christine Lemmer-Webber just released part one of a podcast interview with Mark S. Miller! In it they chart the history of secure capability programming by discussing the development of the E programming language, the variations in attitudes toward technology over time, actor behavior, and asynchronous communication.