9: What is Spritely?

FOSS and Crafts

What is this Spritely project that's taken up most of Chris's time for the last several years? Something about advancing distributed/decentralized social networks, but what does that mean? Chris and Morgan talk about it while they drive to the bank!

Links:

• Spritely

  • Spritely Goblins (repo), the distributed programming language environment

  • The distributed storage demos: Magenc, Crystal, and Golem. Currently being explored as the Datashards project.

  • Where's the website? Not up at the time of episode release yet. Get on that, Chris!

• The E programming language

• Rare video demonstrating Electric Communities Habitat

• CapTP

• Goblins demos

  • Terminal Phase time travel demo

  • A discussion about the distributed chat demo mentioned in the episode

• Interview where Chris first announced Spritely on We Distribute

• Spritely IRC channel