I should continue learning more Python and Lua before I continue on my esoteric programming language, PolkaPy

Imagining an #esolang based on knitting and crochet patterns. I've often thought that these are quite like code, centuries before computers. The oldest sock pattern I know of was about 70 years before Bouchon's machine.

But how? It is possible to create a fabric based on a 1D cellular automaton. (That's another one! Conus Textile has been computing with cells for millions of years!)

State-based patterns are interesting, but rare. Even though I think they can be more intuitive.

I'm making a new version of Hibrain, my BrainF based #Esolang. I've made so many incompatable versions, that I figured I should have a version number, but just picked "10". All preexisting versions can be some fraction of 10.

First line of spec:
"Hibrain 10 (Probably higher than any previous version.)" xD

Hallo an alle,

wir treffen uns diesen Donnerstag den 26.02. ab 18 Uhr im @entropia Hauptraum.

Thema ist dieses mal Esolangs. Es soll um seltene/alte Programmiersprachen und Paradigmen gehen - auch in einem interdiziplinären Kontext, Code als Kunst, Code als Widerstand. Bringt gerne eure Lieblingssprache mit.

Es wird einen Talk über Ashwood geben.
Wir bestellen gemeinsam Essen, es gibt Tee und Snacks.

Kommt gerne vorbei :)

#flinta #ccc #entropia #esolang #art #programming #ashwood

We are excited to announce the interactive talk "Esolangs as Hacker Folk-Art and Computational Resistance" by Daniel Temkin (@rottytooth) about esoteric programming languages as a community-based form of art and resistance. The talk occurs as part of our open sessions format on the 7th February at 20:00 in our club space.

More information on the talk: https://entropia.de/Open_Sessions:Agenda#2026-02-07

More infos about the speaker: https://danieltemkin.com/

#karlsruhe #esolang

Nice article on Brainfuck compiler optimization. Makes me remember when I wrote a BF interpreter in high school for my Texas Instruments Voyage 200.

http://calmerthanyouare.org/2015/01/07/optimizing-brainfuck.html

#brainfuck #esolang #compsci #compiler

So I had this idea of an #esolang. Taking #Tarot cards from a deck and using them at most once, with each card essentially being an assembly instruction. Turns out, someone beat me to it! https://esolangs.org/wiki/Tarot

While I rather thought of functional design and combinators, this person made a stack-based number-crunching language. I don’t like their design decisions, but I have to admit that the idea of this esolang—and camaraderie with someone weird—is pleasing me.

New hVmark Release: v1.5.0

I added something that probably should’ve been deployed with subheadings:
horizontal rules (---, ***, ___)
Better late than never.

GitHub: https://github.com/HisVirusness/hvmark
Docs: https://hisvirusness.com/hvmark#2025-12-29-v1-5-0

hVmark is my tiny, opinionated markup language: MIT-licensed, intentionally strict, and built to power HisVirusness.com.

#markup #webdev #indieweb #smallweb #esolang