Object capabilities and programming languages
- The Spritely Institute's blog is chock full of fun object-capability stuff
- ...and if you want to go super deep on ocap lore, see erights.org and cap-lore (RIP Norm Hardy)
- Habitat Chronicles has a ton of useful learnings from Lucasfilm's Habitat and the systems that followed it
- Christine Lemmer-Webber's blog has some of the earlier context for Spritely from before its current website, and lots of good Lisp/user freedom-adjacent posts besides
- Dave Thompson's blog is great for Lisp game programming and (more recently) more Spritely-related stuff. (And he wrote the software powering this site!)
- Andy Wingo is a compiler wizard
Social computing
- Dynamicland and its offshoots like Folk Computer are very cool. Imagine if public libraries and community centers had these!
Functional package management
- I've been a Guix user for a while now and it's consistently been one of the most satisfying ways to manage the software I have installed on things
Open hardware
- My primary computer for the last few years has been an MNT Reform and I've got a Pocket Reform on the way. MNT's doing really cool stuff.
Philly-local
- Hive76 is a small volunteer-run hackerspace/makerspace in East Kensington that I've been going to for years
- Along similar lines, Iffy Books is a small bookshop focused on hacking/free culture/gardening. Cozy place!
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