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Thanks! It's so nice that esolangs are starting to get wider appreciation as a cultural form.

The FOC podcast is super fun and they end up discussing a few esolangs from the Forty-Four Esolangs book (Entropy, FatFinger). I'm also on a podcast about the book with Sam Arbsema…

Also, the code for the original INTERCAL-72 compiler was recently re-discovered: https://esoteric.codes/blog/published-for-the-first-time-the...

Hi, I'm the author. Esoteric.codes is my blog on esolangs in general; the book is a collection of my esolangs in particular. Also just to note that e.c had been on hold while I foc…

More specifically, The Humble Programmer is about "professionalizing" programming. In the '50s and '60s, programmers justified clever tricks due to the strict constraints of early …

It's 2001 according to the esolangs wiki. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

This is quite cool and a reminder that SIGBOVIK is happening again next week

I interviewed Martin Kleppe of JSFuck for the same blog: https://esoteric.codes/blog/interview-with-martin-kleppe

Hi, I wrote the piece. Site should be responding well again now.

It will move to https when I update it later this year

Funny you should ask; someone interviewed me about a few of my esolangs for their dissertation last year and referenced the Glass Bead Game. It would take a lot of practice to impr…

I favored the flexibility of ordering concurrent notes differently in MIDI over having the sheet music uniquely define a program. It gives the programmer more choices in how notes …

I first made the language (fifteen years ago!) out of curiosity about esolangs and as a first try at writing a compiler. And for fun, yes. Since then, I've written more about multi…

It's funny you link to Piet; I began Velato by asking what would Piet be as music. Some programs are instantly recognizable as Piet while others are hardly recognizable as such; th…

Hi, I'm the creator of Velato. I will be reworking the website to include more examples later this year. In the mean time, the latest version of the compiler is on github: https://…

In 2009, I made Velato, an esolang where code is written in pitch values ( https://github.com/rottytooth/Velato ) encoded as MIDI files. So sort of the opposite of writing algorith…

I see the more creative esolangs like this as beautiful and strange to think and code in; a formal play on language design. Not everything needs to be practical or a learning exper…

Previously done as an art project: http://metriclock.com/

Yes, I wrote it in <2k of js; all the pieces in this issue of Taper are that size or smaller. The name patterns came from Wikipedia, if you view source, it links to the sources.