Esoteric.Codes

Computational art blog: esolangs, code poetics, more, 2011 - 2021 // find me on BLUESKY: @dtemkin.bsky.app

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Nice to see the new follows but I’m rarely on this website any longer. Please find me @dtemkin.bsky.social

E.C is on indefinite hold but I am writing abt esolangs elsewhere - please join the mailing list at top of https://t.co/9oh5mZ9E8i

[Yoko Ono @yokoono]

Let People copy or photograph your paintings. Destroy the originals.

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Also discussed today on Hacker News: https://t.co/CsO8hrTOWQ

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Shapes, a graphical esolang. This program reads from a file https://t.co/kOqixhMLQQ

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@lovidlovid There needs to be an esolang expressed purely through kissing

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Who needs Copilot when a golfing language transforms highly readable pseudocode into this

100Mλn#[3|5#]Ḋ"FizzBuzz"½ḋG}ṅ

https://t.co/zR0O2yujK1

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This is the energy bring to code

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

The universe has a sense of humor.

This is the most efficient known way of packing 11 identical squares into a larger square (with no overlap). Found by mathematician Walter Trump.

Figure credit: Wikimedia/Walter Trump

[Yuk Hui @digital_objects]

Finally received my copy ;)

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A nameless programming language with a single nameless command, also array-based and stack-based (of course) https://t.co/n0b6Sg8KQ3

[krystal maughan @kammitama]

Omg so during lunch time today, I met an undergrad who is a Psychedelics major, and I got to explain cryptography to them, and they explained stuff they do in their major to me, and I think we're ready for our Psychedelics-Encryption startup 😂

[Walker Boh @nakedMCSE]

NOOOOooooooo!
C, my beloved, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ???

[Tomasz Łakomy @tlakomy]

Anyone got this to work? It’s not doing anything for me

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@pegjs: Hoping you're back soon

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Owlet: a language for ternary (base three) computing https://t.co/rH8KrCIWgw

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Mariposa: a language with “time travel” (editing the state of the program at previous points) https://t.co/op247ZXrci

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ELIZA: more convincingly human than GPT-3.5 in recent Turing test https://t.co/GoeKDTATXZ

[Outland @outland_art]

“A glitch is the hostile metaphor, the rupture across layers. Never a single text or top-down command, it occurs in the porousness between systems meant to be independent.”

—@rottytooth discussing glitch, malware, & “esolangs” in our latest #commentary piece.

📰🔗👇

[Bob Nystrom @munificentbob]

Look what showed up in the mail today!

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The Whitespace Corpus: 362 projects for the Whitespace programming language, including interpreters, compilers, and programs https://t.co/WEWkUQMtda by Thalia Archibald

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Forth in 422 bytes - Forth but even more like an esolang https://t.co/eRV09oVgNy