Daniel Temkin’s esolangs run on friction: code as empty folders, melodies, decaying data.

FatFingerJS: Embrace the Chaos of JavaScript

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?

YouTube video by Yusuke Endoh

Practical math for the working programmer.

YouTube video by Pepper

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.