Create and control tiny sound-creatures in the shape of letters that react to gravity or each other and generate rhythms and soundscapes. http://joerg.piringer.net/abcdefg abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is a sound toy, a performance tool and an art work in its own right. You can play with the letter-creatures and watch and listen how they interact with each other [...]

it’s getting readable again before i turn back into the illegible at the following and last chapter. the first language for this fourth part of my small series is called ORK short for Objects R Kool. ORK is an object oriented language with a very verbose syntax. Unlike most of the esoteric programming languages you [...]

in the third part of my small series about programs that can be read i’d like to introduce two languages out of the mass of esoteric programming languages that focus on using commands that consist of single characters or ASCII-codes. this property is crucial for my own attempt in creating an esoteric programming language which [...]

i continue my small series about esoteric programming languages with LOLCODE: LOLCODE is inspired by the infamous lolcat internet meme. Lolcats are images distributed via the net with cats and their written “thoughts” on it. The language they speak is called lolspeak (lol is the net-acronym for “loughing out loud”) an english dialect. An example [...]

I’d like to start a small series about “reading programs” here. This is somehow a follow-up of the discussion at e-poetry after José Carlos Silvestre’s talk. The point being made was that source code is meant to be read by humans. I first had to agree but then after thinking a while about it came [...]

i started experimenting with the google web toolkit and for a starter i tried to convert my offline app nam shub mini into an online ajax web app. it took me about a day to do that without a single thought about browser compatibility. it’s really an amazing tool if you know how to program [...]