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## [Please Review: The Heart of Spritely (HoS)](https://community.spritely.institute/t/please-review-the-heart-of-spritely-hos/99)

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**Author:** [@frandallfarmer](https://community.spritely.institute/u/frandallfarmer)\
**Replies:** 69\
**Last updated:** [January 6, 2026, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/please-review-the-heart-of-spritely-hos/99 "2026-01-06T19:38:38Z")

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Friends, we need your help! We’re working on our key documents to describe the “how” of Spritely infrastructure. The rough draft of the main portion of our capabilities primer is available for review here: (NOTE: Th…

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## [Submission time! Today is the day that EC was unshackled!](https://community.spritely.institute/t/submission-time-today-is-the-day-that-ec-was-unshackled/178)

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**Author:** [@frandallfarmer](https://community.spritely.institute/u/frandallfarmer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 18, 2024, 12:59am UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/submission-time-today-is-the-day-that-ec-was-unshackled/178 "2024-01-18T00:59:12Z")

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There will be a public declaration soon, but for reasons that will be made clear, I wanted @everyone here to know that today OpenText signed the paperwork that opens all EC IP, this includes The Palace, and Onlive Techn…

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## [Blog Post: Lisp Game Jam - "Fantasary" - prototyping an object world (& TCP netlayer)](https://community.spritely.institute/t/blog-post-lisp-game-jam-fantasary-prototyping-an-object-world-tcp-netlayer/266)

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**Author:** [@frandallfarmer](https://community.spritely.institute/u/frandallfarmer)\
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**Last updated:** [June 7, 2023, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/blog-post-lisp-game-jam-fantasary-prototyping-an-object-world-tcp-netlayer/266 "2023-06-07T23:22:42Z")

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\[This blog post will be promoted on social media tomorrow morning, but the crew here get to see it first!\] Spritely participated in the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2023 last week. We submitted not one, but two, entries. Thi…

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## [Conundrum: \[Object\] Upgrade](https://community.spritely.institute/t/conundrum-object-upgrade/24)

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**Author:** [@frandallfarmer](https://community.spritely.institute/u/frandallfarmer)\
**Replies:** 11\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/conundrum-object-upgrade/24 "2022-11-07T19:42:24Z")

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One of the great challenges of software is handling upgrades - they are a massive compatibility challenge as well as historically a significant security vulnerability. This means that widely deployed internet software c…

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## [Conundrum: Orthogonal Persistence](https://community.spritely.institute/t/conundrum-orthogonal-persistence/23)

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**Author:** [@frandallfarmer](https://community.spritely.institute/u/frandallfarmer)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [October 6, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/conundrum-orthogonal-persistence/23 "2022-10-06T23:26:09Z")

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Proposed Definition: What to do with state when a vat is put to sleep - so that when it resumes, it will be in a reasonable and predictable state. Electric Communities experimented with a “binary restore” sort of OP, bu…

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## [On Ambient Authority and Sealers](https://community.spritely.institute/t/on-ambient-authority-and-sealers/103)

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**Author:** [@frandallfarmer](https://community.spritely.institute/u/frandallfarmer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://community.spritely.institute/t/on-ambient-authority-and-sealers/103 "2022-04-16T03:01:43Z")

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Elsewhere, @crock wrote: I have doubts about Sealer/Unsealer. The State model did not have it, and we never missed it. Miller showed a theoretical use, but is there a real one? How do we best communicate the challeng…
