Daniel Temkin
@dtemkin.bsky.social
Esolangs are Systems Art SITE: https://danieltemkin.com BLOG: https://esoteric.codes BOOK: Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs (2025, MIT Press)
If you want to get your first talk ever out, this would be an especially nice place to do that. It’s a wonderful group both organizers and audience wise every time, and they are super open to doing stuff that is not necessarily your standard run through some programming tricks or topics too.
Brooklyn Web Workers@brooklynwebworkers.com · 6d agoWe're looking for speakers for our next few events! Whether this is your first presentation or you’re an experienced veteran, we're looking for talks on topics relevant to tech workers -- whether that’s technical, historical, cultural, or political in nature.
Borrows “uncomputation” from quantum computing for a new form of 2D programming
Human Coders News@news.humancoders.com · 6d agoLangages spatiaux : écrire du code en 2D
This study conducts a Fourier analysis of the wave contours in five paintings by Bridget Riley, in order to estimate the extent and character of their harmonic distortion. github.com/golanlevin/r...
I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com
Logic for Programmers
Practical math for the working programmer.
logicforprogrammers.com
I have watched this video maybe eight times in the last couple months, and it's just really super impactful for me when I feel like crap. youtu.be/_UsR9-1npLE?...
Rodney Mullen - Until The Wheels Fall Off (Tony Hawk Documentary)
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In CoralScript, text is encoded as plant-like arrangements of hexagonal tiles codeberg.org/lipwig/coral...
Recreated two clouds I saw in the last week, how I remember them. Yellow was during peak wildfire smoke
What is a computer? That's a question I've grappled with for years. The answer changes depending on what period we are talking about. In this episode I'm looking at a machine from 1950 that's digital, but only barely. Would you call it a computer? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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If you’re gonna have muppets at halftime one should be drunk and perform never goodbye
happy 12th birthday to wordhack!! i am very grateful to @toddwords.bsky.social for carrying this creative and inspiring community through so many years, eras, venues, words,
do you ever think about how the most common uses of dot-decimal notation are ip addresses, surround sound channels, and Teeth.
Offering the first comprehensive critical analysis of the ELIZA chatbot, “Inventing Eliza” illuminates how ELIZA transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...
Code dealing with the unbounded recursion of natural language can take you to interesting places seriot.ch/computation/...
Unicode's Transliteration Rules Are Turing-Complete
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“A curator of European paintings reflects on an ancient Mesopotamian sculpture; a researcher of Islamic art ponders a bust from a German-Austrian sculptor; and a managing editor is reminded of his own experiences in a municipal office” in a new book from The Met. hyperallergic.com/the-met-muse...
The Met Museum's Staff Have Some Thoughts About the Art
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.
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Sometimes I make smaller Dither Studies. It’s a greater challenge to capture the structured chaos of a dither in a small space. But also an opportunity to experiment with color and shape before going really big. Each is 6” × 18” or 24”.
Also of interest: a deep dive into the newly-rediscovered original ELIZA source code and a digital-humanities perspective on its continuing importance, coming out in a few weeks: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...
Inventing ELIZA
As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventing ELIZA offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum’s...
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Punk and protest music is having a great decade (no surprise). In general, this is the best decade for music since the 90s
The conlang generator from the prev link: conlangcrafter.github.io (proj is by @begus.bsky.social)
ConlangCrafter: Constructing Languages with a Multi-Hop LLM Pipeline
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...
conlangcrafter.github.io
Wittgenstein famously said that the limits of our language are the limits of our world. This research is using AI to generate endless made-up languages to challenge the limits of possible languages and worlds.
My conspiracy theory is that fireworks are mass delusions
Fusion is a (pretty generic-looking) programming language for implementing reusable components for C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, and more… fusion-lang.org
Fusion Programming Language
Transpiling to C, C++, C#, D, Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, TypeScript and OpenCL.
fusion-lang.org
Had a nap on the porch today. This what New England wins at
E coli cells as screen for Doom; pixels are "on" or "off"; refresh rate is 70 minutes to illuminate and 8 hours to reset, so not the speediest version of the game docs.google.com/document/d/1...
20.405 SynBio Final Project Writeup
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...
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I'm gonna keep a small diary of my reverse engineering work in this thread. Basically, I'm finding obsolete, poorly documented, and/or poorly supported sensing devices, and getting them to produce legible open data for my Creative Coding and Experimental Capture students.
Wait the point of this site is social interaction??
News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: The UK Government confirms that Bluesky will be INCLUDED in the ban on social media for under 16s. The government said it will be BANNED because it is a “user-to-user platform who purpose is to enable social interaction.”
