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follow: follow: ESOTERIC.CODES Languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing. Esoteric programming languages (esolangs) and styles, constraint-based coding, code art, code poetry, more. About esoteric.codes... Languages, platforms, and systems that break from the norms of computing. More... LATEST Escher Circuits: Using Vision to Perform Computation Monkey: the satirical Go package used unwittingly by Arduino and SalesForce Arduino, SalesForce, and other high-profile software projects were recently revealed to break the license agreement for Monkey. That license, created for good reason: no one should use it, ever. (Project) Coding in Indigenous African Languages A new wave of African programming languages offer an escape from the ubiquity of English Fat Dactyls On the Collaborative Spirit of Esolanging, or: If You Make a Language and You Are Very Lucky, People Will Misuse it Zzo38 INTERVIEWS Esoteric.Codes began as an interview series with esolangers and code poets. See all interviews here. 100 Rabbits Perhaps best known for their esoteric livecoding language ORCΛ, 100 Rabbits (Rekka and Devine) have a creative practice that seamlessly crosses from the esoteric to the practical. Living on a boat and relying primarily on solar energy, they create their own tools to avoid the impracticalities and wastefulness of commercial software. Their work has a rare coherence of thought and design that bridges art, code, and life. (Interview) ais523 (2011 Interview) As the creator of languages like Underload, and an administrator of the esolangs.org wiki, ais523 talks through what makes esolangs interesting and challenging vs thematic and gimmicky. (Interview) ais523 (2017 Interview) In this second interview with ais523, we discuss his experiments at finding 'the essence of programming,' using analog computing, extreme minimalism, and a deletionist model of computation (Interview) Alex McLean Alex was a key developer of live coding as a musical practice, and, with Nick Collins, created the Algorave concept. Alex has developed software for coding-as-performance, including TidalCycles. (Interview) Allison Parrish Allison Parrish is a poet and programmer who researches and makes art about language, often in the context of computation and the Internet. She is the creator of the everyword Twitterbot and the author most recently of Articulations, a book of generative poems from an algorithm which extracts linguistic features from over two million lines of public domain poetry, then traces fluid paths between the lines based on their similarities. (Interview) Annie Dorsen Annie's work brings engagement with code to theatre, with experimental works where performers (human and non-) act on generated music or texts. (Interview) Ben Olmstead Ben is an early esolanger, whose Malbolge, a language created in a single afternoon, is still considered the most challenging to code; he gives insight into the early days of esolangs. (Interview) Chris Pressey Chris has been making esolangs before they had a name; he helped foster the community through the mailing list where much of the early discussion took place, and is responsible for the enormously influential Befunge language, among many others. (Interview) David Madore David Madore is responsible for Unlambda, one of the best-known and most-confounding esolangs of all time. An accomplished mathematician, Madore also produced languages that cross from natural numbers into infinity, but may be incompatible with our Universe (Interview) David Morgan-Mar David has created some of the best-known esolangs, including Chef and Piet, which exress code within other rule-based systems, and Whenever, a language that overturns a key element of how code is controlled. (Interview) Don Woods Before brainfuck and Befunge, there was INTERCAL. Don Woods discusses the creation of this pioneering esolang and how he looks at geek culture today. (Interview) Eric S. Raymond Eric, best known for his work in the free software / open source movement, is also responsible for developing C-INTERCAL in 1990, a critical moment for esolangs, from the 70s language INTERCAL, perhaps the very first esolang (Interview) Evan Buswell Evan Buswell sees the history of computer science as completely suffused with the anxiety about the possibility of code changing state. Here he explores alternatives that embrace this anxiety and see where it leads (Interview) Jon Corbett Corbett discusses how Cree#, which began as a "Processing for Indigenous Languages," grew into a suite of tools: a full-fledged Cree-based programming language, associated keyboard, and a toolkit to bring other Indigenous languages into computation (Interview) Keymaker Keymaker created one of my favorite languages, Unnecessary. In this, the very first interview for esoteric.codes (from January 2011), Keymaker discusses his work in esolanging and in brainfuck programming (Interview) Martin Ender Martin Ender creates 2D languages of unusual topologies, with code arranged in hexagons, triangles, or using registers arranged in icosohedral structures. We discuss the aesthetics of Funges and golfing languages, and how to both make a complex esolang clear enough for programmers to be able to engage with its central premise. (Interview) Martin Kleppe Martin created (or, in a sense, discovered) JSFuck, an esoteric approach to JavaScript. His other work similarly deals with code as a self-referential medium. (Interview) Ramsey Nasser Ramsey explores alternate computer histories and examines the biases of code through his languages and environments (Interview) Scott Feeney Scott founded esolangs.org, the indispensable depository of esolang knowledge. Here he talks about the history of the form and the key role esoprogrammers play. (Interview) Winnie Soon Winnie's academic research and artistic practice, is at the forefront of critical code studies. Her thesis centers on the animated throbber, the marker of code liveness. She has been awarded the Top-Ranked LABS Abstracts 2017 by Leonardo and the Winner of The 2018 Aarhus University Research Foundation PhD award, as well as the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture at Stuttgarter Filmwinter among many others. Currently, she is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Design and Information Studies, teaching Aesthetic Programming and Digital Culture. (Interview) Wouter van Oortmerssen Wouter created FALSE, the language which inspired Befunge and brainfuck, launching esolangs as we know them today. He also created the once-enormously-popular (non-esoteric) Amiga E language. (Interview) See the full list of interviews here. POSTS (GENERAL SUBJECTS) Posts on larger ideas in code art, esolangs, and code poetry (as opposed to specific projects). See the full list here. What Programming Language Would Yoko Ono Create? Looking to Fluxus for strategies of breaking down the ordinary performance of code-writing into a new form of art Computing with JS's undefined Why use numbers when you can leave them ... undefined? Esoprogramming and Computational Idealism Through the concept of computational idealism, we can see how some esoprograms re-assert order within the seeming chaos of the esolang. They "rehabilitate" the language by showing that simple, elegant code can be written within it, despite its alien appearance Make Your Hard Drive Infinite With These Three File Systems Having storage issues? These three file systems make your hard drive virtually limitless. Building: the code performance of Joana Chicau Joana Chicau brings classical ballet training to a new form of live web performance, in live-editing existing web pages. She does so with a mix of pre-set and spontaneously written html and javascript on top of found material. c0d3.Attorney A web oddity full of generative images that claims to collect Malbolge programs The 128-Language Quine Relay An astonishing 128 language Ouroborous quine Sentences on Code Art 0. Computers are logical systems that arise as often by accident as by design. Three Obfuscators for Natural Language A Programming Language With Only One Command and the Anti-Imperialist Operating System Built on it On SUBLEQ, the most basic of languages, and DawnOS, the obsessive OS built on it A Gentle Introduction to FRACTRAN TerrariaClone: an incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code Google Translate Poetry Lessons From Early AI: On Cognition and Reasoning A look at early AI, another interface between computation and human understanding The Less Humble Programmer When personal style and overt cleverness are the point: esolanging, code golf, and obfuscated code as a counterpoint to Dijkstra Vocabulary-based Esolangs Vocabulary-based esolangs are sometimes overlooked. Here's a look at those who use intriguing lexicons to challenge conventional notions of computation Null Programs and the Uninscribed Empty files, blank canvases, and other seemingly content-less carriers of meaning Vocabulary-Oriented and Behavior-Oriented Esolangs, Part 2: Metaphor && Myth A contrast between languages engaging with logic and those engaging with the surface of code (continued) Conceptual Languages (Part 2) Languages where coding isn't the point Esolangs as an Experiential Practice We experience esolangs in an active, participatory way, usually by writing code. The esolanger asks a question through the language; the esoprogrammers explore this by writing code within the language. Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs Differentiating three disciplines within creative coding Unnecessary and Kallisti: Purely Conceptual Languages Unusable for any kind of programming, these languages embrace the extremes of dematerialized digital practice On tokens & vocabulary: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! vs Ook! Brainfuck Programming: How to write the number 36 How to think in brainfuck by constructing a single number KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital—Wait, What? Col. Sanders's bizarre appearance on General Hospital includes an "herbs and spices"-related cyberattack using the self-encrypting esolang Malbolge See the full list here. INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS Posts about individual projects, listed by project name. See the full list of project posts here. All HTML Evan Roth's All Html is a structural experiment with a simple premise: a single page containing every single HTML tag in alphabetical order. (Project) BodyFuck Making visible the labor of programming (Project) Checkout A theoretical language that allows access at both higher and lower levels, including controlling chip-based operations, evaluated in terms of Kittler's Protected Mode (Project) Chef and the Aesthetics of Multicoding Programs in the Chef language are also cooking recipes, making Chef a multicoding esolang. Looking to this early example of an esolang that embraces multicoding, we consider what's at stake in these languages and the possibilities of multicoding aesthetics. (Project) code::art journal code::art publishes programs that expand the definitions of both code and art (Project) CodeProfiles A program that performs its own writing, reading, and execution (Project) Compute A computing language with natural language input that always understands you (Project) Esopo: Turing Complete Poetry Will Hicks's Esopo project, a Turing Complete poetic system, including the languages AshPaper, Correspond, and Emily (Project) Gottlob: Write Code in Frege's Concept Notation 19th Century mathematical ambitions revived as a programming language, written in Frege's concept-script (Project) IDN Messing with internet hostnames in JODI's web-modernist masterpiece (Project) in:verse This shader-based esolang has a new type of flexible lexicon, making it easier for programmer-poets to focus on compelling code and visuals (Project) JSFuck An initial look at the esoteric coding style for JS (be sure to also see the interview with its creator, Martin Kleppe) (Project) Lenguage Why do we need both 0s and 1s? A language that shows you don't (Project) Meaning in Mistakes Connect to the wrong wifi and every site serves inexplicable words (Project) Mimic Inject mayhem into code with look-alike characters (Project) movfuscator and reductio ad absurdum With his experiments in all-mov compilation, Chris Domas shows how the text of code can be divorced from behavior, even at the assembly level. Then he goes even further, reducing every possible program into one. (Project) Oak Oak: a rust-like language built on a minimalist back-end inspired by brainfuck (Project) Oou: The Insane Language A (spoken) language that promotes misunderstanding and trippy surreality (Project) Open and Shut Open and Shut allows typing without touching the keyboard. It reduces the laptop to a telegraph key, where slamming it shut repeatedly marks dashes and dots (Project) PingFS Don't store locally, save your files to the 'cloud': in pieces, endlessly traversing the Internet (Project) Portrait of a Web Server Primify A tool that embeds images into prime numbers (Project) Reading Club Reading as Writing, Coding as Public Performance (Project) regex2fat: Turn Your String Search Pattern Into a Labyrinth of Folders regex2fat translates regexes like the one above into disk images, creating a labyrinth of folders one can navigate through to find matches for their expression (Project) Singing Code When code is all affect, no computer instructions. Works by Sophie Brueckner (Project) Suicide Linux Like regular Linux, but your first typo deletes your drive (Project) Taper A new online literary journal publishes computational poems written for the Web, connecting Oulipo's study of constraint systems with the explicit size limits of demoscene. Taper asks programmer-poets to construct pieces that fall under a challenging size limit and that address the issue's chosen theme (Project) Turing Paint Draw your code with an MSPaint-friendly Turing Machine (Project) VerboseFuck Messing with tokens to maximize the minimalism of brainfuck (Project) Wenyan-lang A literary esolang written in Classical Chinese (Project) xchg rax, rax A chapbook of minimal code pieces engaging with the oddest and most elegant aspects of assembly (Project) ZipIt The Most Compact of Zip Bombs, and File Size as Performance (Project) See the full list of posts on individual projects here. Supported by Developed at Honored by follow: Created by Daniel Temkin, 2011 Feel free to reach out at [email protected] Except where otherwise noted, all content is released under the CC Attribution 4.0 International license Esoteric.Codes covers algorithmic theater, computational poetry, conlangs, ephemeral digital performance, disruptive codes, weird hc/i, differential thought platforms, the digital ephemeral, null programs and deletions, unstable linguistics, structure as content, machine disobedience, new relationships between programmers and their primary progeny (bugs), useless machines (Shannon/Minksy), synthetic languages, circuitous systems, constraint sets for coders, paraconsistent calculi, and other platforms, systems, and languages that challenge the conventions of computing. More about the site