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Daniel Temkin
@dtemkin.bsky.social
Artist + esolanger, he/him

New book: Forty-Four Esolangs—the first artist’s monograph of programming languages—out now: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/
I want hexagonal UIs: hexagonal screens with hexagon pixels and hexagonally-angled block drawing characters. Pop-up windows as trapezoids or parallelograms on hexagonal grids… I’ve done hexagonal dithering, which looks amazing, but having our screens show them natively would be something else
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Amazing line-up!
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Finding the right palette for my Rivulet program
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
As a bonus, here’s the Cree keyboard Jon designed
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Hey Chicago people, this is tomorrow!
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There should be a recording online soon of another iteration of this talk
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I made a tool for those who prefer Boustrophedon oxplows.com
As the Ox Plows
oxplows.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Plus people who understand encodings are not sending me Excel files, so every one is likely mojibaked
October 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Hypnotic. Feels like having a stroke in front of a lenticular
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I use this term a lot, mostly borrowing from Wendy Chun, about the move to more English-like code (democratizing and de-skilling). I don’t know the history of the term, but am curious
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM