If you have ever written a program, you must have experienced this at least once. “Will I even be able to read this code three months from now?…” “I want to hand this over to my team members, but ...

Zymbol started as an esoteric programming language — a single tight question taken seriously: what happens if you remove every keyword? No if, no while, no function, no return. The original experiment ...

If you’ve been using the Internet for any length of time, you’ve probably used a tool like Google Translate to convert webpages or snippets of text to and from languages ranging from Uzbek to ...

Maybe you do truly understand one or two of these areas of coding mystery. Most of your fellow programmers are faking it. We all want to be thought competent by our peers—to have them think we know ...

P&T Knitwear is pleased to welcome Daniel Temkin to celebrate the release of his book Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code: a riveting collection of one artist’s many approaches to ...

Tim Berners-Lee has a map of everything on the internet. It can fit on a single page and consists of around 100 blocks connected by dozens of arrows. There are blocks for things like blogs, podcasts ...

Government agencies, schools, and hospitals install security cameras to protect their clients and their own integrity. But as one research team discovered at the Black Hat security conference this ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Brainfuck Challenge A minimalist programming puzzle game based on the esoteric language Brainfuck. Learn its rules, solve clever challenges, and even run ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...