I’ve been working on a new Javascript app to display images on the net. If you’ve seen any of the previous dbCinema slideshows, you may recall they didn’t have fade in/out of the images. I was finally motivated to make that sort of app. The motivation was not for the dbCinema images, but for some [...]

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 have [...]

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 of [...]

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 [...]

Part 1 is here.
The printed institution of intellectual property holds that works cannot be reproduced “without prior written permission” (as the legalese runs). The printed work at hand is always documentary evidence of the printer’s permission for that work, whereas any additional permission – the permission of the subject to write and read in the [...]

David Jhave Johnston is a poet-programmer who has produced a large body of intermedial Flash-based net art for many years at glia.ca. His most recent project is titled Sound Seeker. He says in the “About” section that Sound Seeker is “an online real-time beat-synchronized poem animator. Sound drives the rhythm of the words: their speed and style [...]

I’ve been developing this little software application in Processing for creating letterforms and doodles for future versions of the “Scriptor” (here and here) series of digital projections. In fact, I’m moving the whole project from Actionscript to Processing, if for no other reason than that Processing was invented by one of my peers at UCLA, [...]

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 in [...]

Chris Klimas, the hypertext and IF author, recently released Twine, a free open source tool for creating interactive narratives. Twine includes a graphical editor, and includes similar features to the first generation hypertext system Storyspace. Klimas includes documentation, including video instructions, such as this one, showing you how to create a simple hypertext fiction using [...]