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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 6h
We're entering spooky season, and here's a neat Halloween-haunted-house-themed game made with Spritely's Hoot Scheme->WASM toolkit by bonthron ! community.spritely.institute/t/hoot-haunt...
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Hoot haunted house
eva: a haunted house built with hoot There were rumours of course. Eva’s death had been unnatural and, it was said, the coffin had been buried empty. Then strange things began to happen at the ma...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 7h
Spritely office hours today Wednesday, September 30th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Drop by! Say hello! Ask us questions! Tell us what you're building! These are always fun and the conversations are always great! Hope to see you there!
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Next office hours on 9/30
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, September 30th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). This is our recurring monthly meeting where we chat about all things Spritely! The agenda is set ...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 7h
We gave a really well received talk at QCon London: “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet”, and it's now uploaded publicly! Give it a watch! www.infoq.com/presentation...
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Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet
Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Spritely office hours, today (Wednesday, August 26th) at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! Come talk to us about what we're up to, tell us how you're using Spritely tech, and ask questions! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...
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Next office hours on 8/26
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, August 26th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). This is our recurring monthly meeting where we chat about all things Spritely! The agenda is set by ...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
We're working hard to make it easier to hack on Spritely tech *without* needing to install anything special... just an ordinary browser! Check out this screenshot of the work-in-progress Hoot IDE, featuring a "picture language" generating pretty graphics-inside-code!
Spritely's Hoot IDE, using a picture language. Scheme code for making some simple shapes on the left in the editor tab, and on the right a live REPL session, where some functional Scheme code makes a list of rainbow shapes!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Office hours happening now! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Spritely office hours happening today! Coming up real soon (2pm ET)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Talk to us about our projects, your projects using Spritely, ask us questions, etc!
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Next office hours on 6/24
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, June 24th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). This is our recurring monthly meeting where we chat about all things Spritely! The agenda is set by wh...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Tomorrow! In Toronto! Come see @flockofbirbs.bsky.social and I talk at Open World Map about how @spritelyinst.bsky.social uses game development and game jams to advance network freedom! luma.com/8nvmyatm It's no cost to attend so register and come hang out with us!
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Open World Map: Digital Sovereignty for Game Creators · Luma
Join us for a technocritical day of demos, inspiration, and workshops towards a more open digital world for game creators! Enshittified platforms and…
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Hope to cya there! <3
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Hoot 0.9.0 released! With several quality of life improvements and bugfixes! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-... And just in time for the Lisp Game Jam, which starts Friday! itch.io/jam/spring-l...
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Hoot 0.9.0 released! — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
People keep sending us the article about OpenAI banning "goblins". Spritely does not use generative AI in any of its work. Nonetheless, it is hard to deny that Spritely Goblins, our distributed programming environment, is too cool and easy to obsess over, too powerful. We will not apologize for this
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Spritely office hours today! Come hang out, hear what's happening, and talk about what you're working on or interested in! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic...
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Next office hours on 4/29
Reminder: this is happening tomorrow!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We’re excited to announce Spritely Goblins 0.18.0! Featuring new caching layer called “sleepy actors”, OCapN protocol updates, and numerous bug fixes! Get cozy by the fire, get a nice cup of tea, and have a relaxing read about this exciting new Goblins release! spritely.institute/news/spritel...
Goblins 0.18 release artwork: A goblin naps by a fireplace with a steaming cup of tea by their side
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Spritely crew members @dustyweb.bsky.social and @flockofbirbs.bsky.social will be speaking at QCon London 2026 about "Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet" on March 18th! qconlondon.com/presentation...
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QCon London 2026 | Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet
Get practical inspiration and best practices on emerging software trends directly from senior software developers at early adopter companies.
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-... For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!
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Hoot 0.8.0 released! — Spritely Institute
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Impeccable curation: Right after I talked about 4 ways to ♥️/👿 browsers, @flockofbirbs.bsky.social @spritelyinst.bsky.social is up next saying break up the browser monoliths, browsers should just be a shell for WASM.
David Thompson @ FOSDEM 2026
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Couldn't make it to #FOSDEM? Here's a list of talks by #spritely folks, including me, plus a list of talks I just recommend! social.coop/@cwebber/116...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
Wanted to see me speak at #FOSDEM but couldn't make it? Here's the two talks I gave! How to Level Up the Fediverse (co-presented with ActivityPub co-author @tsyesika@mastodon.nu !) https://fosdem.org...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyinst.bsky.social We have the skills and underlying tech, but we need resources to fund it. Feel free to reach out.
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Coming to #FOSDEM? Come see the #Spritely crew speak! We've got a whole bunch of exciting talks lined up this year! community.spritely.institute/t/spritely-f...
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Spritely @ FOSDEM
Christine, Jessica, and myself will be presenting several talks at the FOSDEM conference in Brussels this weekend on 1/31 and 2/1. Click on links to individual talks to stream them live or watch afte...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Mandy: ActivityPub on Spritely Goblins! spritely.institute/news/mandy-a... Jessica Tallon, co-author of ActivityPub and Spritely engineer, discusses a proof of concept ActivityPub application combining the actor model properties of Spritely Goblins and ActivityPub alike!
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Mandy: ActivityPub on Goblins — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I've said a lot, there's more that can be said, but instead I'll switch to the ask. Does the above resonate with you? @spritelyinst.bsky.social could really, truly use your help. Consider donating. I promise we'll put it to good use. spritely.institute/donate/ Let's build a better internet! 💜
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Support Spritely! — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
But what does it mean for systems to be social? Here's something you can't do on either ActivityPub or ATProto, but is a demo we built with Goblins and OCapN: a collaborative farming game! spritely.institute/news/goblinv...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
And we're still building key infrastructure. Goblins recently got a major upgrade to its persistence system: spritely.institute/news/spritel... And it's about to get another one. Not really yet announced, but we're working on a hot-cache system that loads actors from store on demand. It's neat!
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We also recently put out a blogpost and demo of a chat system that *nobody* centrally hosts called "Brassica Chat" spritely.institute/news/composi... You can try on it on the page. It's a demo, but it's a step towards secure communication for a hostile world.
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Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We're big believers in having tangible examples of tech so people can understand and it's not just vaporware. Sometimes that's challenging to do with low-level tech in development. But games are a great way to show things off! Unusually, Spritely has a whole arcade page! spritely.institute/arcade/
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Spritely Networked Communities Institute — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We're building cool tech: - Goblins, p2p distributed programming: spritely.institute/goblins/ - Hoot, a WebAssembly toolkit (and Scheme->WASM compiler) spritely.institute/hoot/ - OCapN, a secure distributed p2p networked protocol ocapn.org But... what are we *doing* with these things?
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Goblins: Distributed Programming — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
User-empowering technology is a lot of work, corporations aren't motivated to build it. We need research and development of new tech that changes the game from an org that isn't bound by pushing profit. And that's why @spritelyinst.bsky.social is a nonprofit research lab. So... what are we doing?
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I love computers. When people say "Computers were a mistake!" it makes me sad. But it's had to blame people. The direction computers have gone in, the experience people largely have had, is a loss of agency and empowerment. How do we bring that back, and do better than ever even?
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
What can we do? Is there hope? Is it possible to build something better? Spritely was born out of this work, and the strive to create infrastructure allowing for "Networks of Consent". More on that here: spui25.nl/programma/we...
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Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumption...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
*None* of the decentralized social networks today are robust enough to handle threats facing vulnerable people and activists today. Not the fediverse, not Bluesky/ATProto. What to do? (Here's a talk on that: "Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis" c-tube.c-base.org/w/f9pF5pwxX8... )
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#fediday2025 Christine Lemmer-Webber - Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis
Protocols and Purpose in a Global Democratic Crisis (EN) Christine Lemmer-Webber, The Spritely Institute Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the ActivityPub specification, frames the work of dece...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@spritelyinst.bsky.social is developing some damn cool tech: Distributed programming! Leading the way on a secure P2P protocol (OCapN)! A WebAssembly toolkit! But: is "cool tech" what matters? *Why* are we trying to make cool tech? What are the *social implications* of making this technology?
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritelyinst.bsky.social, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/ Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵
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Support Spritely! — Spritely Institute
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Local-first chat using CRDTs meets object capability security using @spritelyinst.bsky.social's tech!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Composing capability security and conflict-free replicated data types spritely.institute/news/composi... Capability security AND local-first chat?! Two great tastes that taste great together! Plus try our tasty demo, live on the blogpost: Brassica Chat!
A diagram of a local-first chat room shared between Alice, Bob, and Carol.
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
If you're in Amsterdam next week, our Executive Director @dustyweb.bsky.social is giving a keynote: "We Can Change the Defaults: Building Networks of Consent and Spaces of Joy in the Ruins of Social Media" spui25.nl/programma/we...
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Social Media: We Can Change the Defaults
Christine Lemmer-Webber, best known as co-author of ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol, will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumption...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Instead of doing the game jam this time around, we've been making some interesting new demos! And here's GoblinShare: Secure, Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing with Goblins spritely.institute/news/goblins... Combining Goblins, OCapN, and encrypted content addressed storage!
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GoblinShare: Secure, Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing with Goblins — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Next Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Cya there!
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Next office hours on 10/29
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, October 29th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). The meeting will be held on Big Blue Button. Use the following link to join: Spritely Office Hours...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Next Spritely office hours! Today! At 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC)! community.spritely.institute/t/next-offic... Cya there!
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Next office hours on 10/29
Hey everyone, Our next office hours will be held on Wednesday, October 29th at 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). The meeting will be held on Big Blue Button. Use the following link to join: Spritely Office Hours...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New System Crafters today focused on Hoot! www.youtube.com/live/0jvN_qW...
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What's New in Guile Hoot? - System Crafters Live!
YouTube video by System Crafters
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I am SO EXCITED to announce the new release of @spritelyinst.bsky.social Goblins 0.17.0 featuring MAJOR new improvements to our persistence system, including a lightning-fast storage backend called Bloblin! spritely.institute/news/spritel...
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Hoot fans! Lisp fans! Rejoyce! Scheme in the browser just got even nicer and cozier to use with Hoot 0.7.0! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-...
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Hoot 0.7.0 released! — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Hoot, our Scheme to WASM compiler, version 0.7.0 is out! spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-... A whole bunch of quality of life improvements! Importing Guile modules is easier, more common scheme library (SRFI) support, and much more! Get it while it's hot, and enjoy this cozy release!
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Hoot 0.7.0 released! — Spritely Institute
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Spritely Goblins v0.17.0: Persistence is better than ever! spritely.institute/news/spritel... Our distributed programming system Goblins has a brand new persistence system named Bloblin which is LIGHTNING fast! Your programs smoothly serialize and BAM, reawaken! Let's go!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
Guix with an XFCE desktop running with its init daemon Shepherd running on top of Goblins, on PID 1!!!!!
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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...
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Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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!
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Shepherd × Goblins update — Spritely Institute
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Igalia @igalia.com · 03/09/2025
🎙 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-...
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Wingo on Wasm | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and cl...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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!)
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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!
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Next office hours on 27th of August
We’re going to be holding our next office hours on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). Please feel free to come along to chat or ask questions about all things Spritely. There’ll be...
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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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!
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Next office hours on 27th of August
We’re going to be holding our next office hours on Wednesday the 27th of August 2025 2 PM EDT (6 PM UTC). Please feel free to come along to chat or ask questions about all things Spritely. There’ll be...
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