What happens when programming languages aim not at functionality and efficiency, but at irritation and reflection, or act like poetry? In this beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll explore esolangs: languages that do exactly that. They include code written as images, as sound, or in forms that no computer can decode. Each esolang offers a new take on

Welcome to Advent of Computing, the show that talks about the shocking, intriguing, and all too often relevant history of computing. A lot of little things we take for granted today have rich stories...

I’ve been working on a Concatenative Programming Language which compiles to GLSL for writing fragment shaders. You can play with it at shaders.jordanscales.c...

Andrew Oram asked why programming languages rise and fall, and quoted the answer without noticing. Programming is a vocation, an art, and a job. Make any of those harder than they need to be, and your...

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

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Practical math for the working programmer.

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Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.

A new book gathers essays by the museum’s curators, researchers, librarians, and conservators on everything from Renaissance portraiture to the work of Wendy Red Star.

As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s...

A fully automated system for constructing languages using large language models. Our multi-stage pipeline creates coherent, diverse artificial languages with their own phonology, grammar, lexicon, and...

Transpiling to C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, TypeScript and OpenCL.

1-Bit Pixels Encoded in E. Coli for the Display of Interactive Digital Media Motivation Doom is a first-person shooter game released 1993 in which a player assumes the role of a space marine, unoffi...

“You have to be a person who champions other work,” they told Hyperallergic, “so that you build the context within which your work can be legible.”

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