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esoteric.codes

esolangs, esoplatforms, esosystems, and all that break from the norms of computing

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88 from 13 Jan 2011 to 16 Apr 2026
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2026 2

  1. EsoNatLangs Bring the Complexity of Natural Language into Code
  2. Interview with yayimhere

2025 2

  1. Forty-Four Esolangs: an artist's monograph of programming languages
  2. Published for the first time: the Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code

2021 11

  1. Escher Circuits: Using Vision to Perform Computation
  2. Monkey: the satirical Go package used unwittingly by Arduino and SalesForce
  3. Coding in Indigenous African Languages
  4. Fat Dactyls
  5. Interview with Zzo38
  6. Interview with Jon Corbett
  7. What Programming Language Would Yoko Ono Create?
  8. Interview with David Madore
  9. Interview with 100 Rabbits
  10. KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital—Wait, What?
  11. xchg rax, rax

2020 16

  1. Turing Paint
  2. Oak
  3. Computing with JS's undefined
  4. Classical Chinese as a Programming Language
  5. Wenyan-lang
  6. in:verse
  7. Esoprogramming and Computational Idealism
  8. Make Your Hard Drive Infinite With These Three File Systems
  9. Don Woods
  10. regex2fat: Turn Your String Search Pattern Into a Labyrinth of Folders
  11. code::art journal
  12. Open and Shut
  13. Gottlob: Write Code in Frege's Concept Notation
  14. Jodis idn
  15. Chef and the Aesthetics of Multicoding
  16. Primify

2019 4

  1. Winnie Soon
  2. Taper
  3. <body> Building: the code performance of Joana Chicau
  4. movfuscator and reductio ad absurdum

2018 10

  1. CodeProfiles
  2. All HTML
  3. Evan Buswell
  4. Esopo: Turing Complete Poetry
  5. c0d3.Attorney
  6. Martin Ender
  7. Allison Parrish
  8. The 128-Language Quine Relay
  9. Suicide Linux
  10. Lenguage

2017 14

  1. Sentences on Code Art
  2. Reading Club
  3. Three Obfuscators for Natural Language
  4. A Programming Language With Only One Command and the Anti-Imperialist Operating System Built on it
  5. ais523 (2017 Interview)
  6. The most compact of zip bombs and file size as
  7. Meaning in Mistakes
  8. Portrait of a Web Server
  9. A Gentle Introduction to FRACTRAN
  10. TerrariaClone: an incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code
  11. Google Translate Poetry
  12. Lessons From Early AI: On Cognition and Reasoning
  13. Singing Code
  14. Martin Kleppe

2016 2

  1. Annie Dorsen
  2. Oou: The Insane Language

2015 18

  1. Alex McLean
  2. The Less Humble Programmer
  3. Mimic
  4. Eric S. Raymond
  5. Vocabulary-based Esolangs
  6. Null Programs and the Uninscribed
  7. BodyFuck
  8. Pingfs storing your files in network traffic
  9. Wouter van Oortmerssen
  10. Vocabulary-Oriented and Behavior-Oriented Esolangs, Part 2: Metaphor && Myth
  11. Jsfuck
  12. Chris Pressey
  13. Scott Feeney
  14. Conceptual Languages (Part 2)
  15. Checkout
  16. David Morgan-Mar
  17. Ramsey Nasser
  18. Compute

2014 7

  1. Esolangs as an Experiential Practice
  2. Code Art, Code Poetry, and Esolangs
  3. Unnecessary and Kallisti: Purely Conceptual Languages
  4. Ben Olmstead
  5. On tokens & vocabulary: AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! vs Ook!
  6. VerboseFuck
  7. Brainfuck Programming: How to write the number 36

2011 2

  1. ais523 (2011 Interview)
  2. Keymaker