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/
New book: Forty-Four Esolangs—the first artist’s monograph of programming languages—out now: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/
Yeah, don't buy tickets for my event at Glasgow CCA; the venue has ceased to exist. The former employees are locked out of their email and can't respond!
Full article from The Scotsman: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Full article from The Scotsman: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
February 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Yeah, don't buy tickets for my event at Glasgow CCA; the venue has ceased to exist. The former employees are locked out of their email and can't respond!
Full article from The Scotsman: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Full article from The Scotsman: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
My #FOSDEM talk as summarized in image by Jeroen Heijmans over on mastodon
Includes many esolangs I discussed as examples of three genres of esolang (Turing Tarpit, multicoding, and non-English [standing in for many others critical of tech defaults]).
And No Signal for when my screen blinked out
Includes many esolangs I discussed as examples of three genres of esolang (Turing Tarpit, multicoding, and non-English [standing in for many others critical of tech defaults]).
And No Signal for when my screen blinked out
February 1, 2026 at 6:35 PM
My #FOSDEM talk as summarized in image by Jeroen Heijmans over on mastodon
Includes many esolangs I discussed as examples of three genres of esolang (Turing Tarpit, multicoding, and non-English [standing in for many others critical of tech defaults]).
And No Signal for when my screen blinked out
Includes many esolangs I discussed as examples of three genres of esolang (Turing Tarpit, multicoding, and non-English [standing in for many others critical of tech defaults]).
And No Signal for when my screen blinked out
Highlight of my time in Paris was this wonderful Source Code exhibition by @softwareheritage.org at @unesco.org, including my Rivulet language, Lingdong’s wenyan-lang, source code of ELIZA, and obfuscated code by Adrian Cable. Code is culture!
January 30, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Highlight of my time in Paris was this wonderful Source Code exhibition by @softwareheritage.org at @unesco.org, including my Rivulet language, Lingdong’s wenyan-lang, source code of ELIZA, and obfuscated code by Adrian Cable. Code is culture!
Off to Paris for the Software Heritage exhibition www.unesco.org/en/articles/... at UNESCO.
Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages
Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages
January 23, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Off to Paris for the Software Heritage exhibition www.unesco.org/en/articles/... at UNESCO.
Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages
Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages
NYC folks: for those who missed it, here’s another chance to hear me present work from Forty Four Esolangs, at next week’s WordHack
January 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
NYC folks: for those who missed it, here’s another chance to hear me present work from Forty Four Esolangs, at next week’s WordHack
New on esoteric codes: yayimhere, creator of Karvity and Utral, whose work studies the strange contradictions of minimalist systems
esoteric.codes/blog/yayimhe...
esoteric.codes/blog/yayimhe...
January 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
New on esoteric codes: yayimhere, creator of Karvity and Utral, whose work studies the strange contradictions of minimalist systems
esoteric.codes/blog/yayimhe...
esoteric.codes/blog/yayimhe...
Just de-installed this work from a Dec talk at P&T Knitwear — they understood the book as a starting place to understand language design as a creative practice and let me bring some of that experience to the space #esolangs
January 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Just de-installed this work from a Dec talk at P&T Knitwear — they understood the book as a starting place to understand language design as a creative practice and let me bring some of that experience to the space #esolangs
thorn, a programming language to build ascii animations www.reddit.com/r/Programmin...
December 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
thorn, a programming language to build ascii animations www.reddit.com/r/Programmin...
Dunno what eggpunk is, must be what all the other 84 year olds listen to
December 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Dunno what eggpunk is, must be what all the other 84 year olds listen to
The one album I’ll never get bored of
November 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The one album I’ll never get bored of
Popped in for the last day of my Dither Studies up at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Popped in for the last day of my Dither Studies up at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social
Finding the right palette for my Rivulet program
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Finding the right palette for my Rivulet program
As a bonus, here’s the Cree keyboard Jon designed
November 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
As a bonus, here’s the Cree keyboard Jon designed
Spent three days intensely working on an esoconlang (programming language with its own script and pronunciation) with Jon Corbett (of Cree# fame)
November 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Spent three days intensely working on an esoconlang (programming language with its own script and pronunciation) with Jon Corbett (of Cree# fame)
This was fun to see; also, the Bay Area folks brought great energy. Ended the first leg of my book tour on a high note!
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This was fun to see; also, the Bay Area folks brought great energy. Ended the first leg of my book tour on a high note!
Once in a while they let you experience experiential art
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Once in a while they let you experience experiential art
Successfully delivered a working Minitel from Paris to the Large Scale Systems Museum outside of Pittsburgh!
October 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Successfully delivered a working Minitel from Paris to the Large Scale Systems Museum outside of Pittsburgh!
How ai summarizes my book tour email:
October 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
How ai summarizes my book tour email:
Dijkstra has opinions (source: Sam Arbesman’s Magic of Code)
September 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dijkstra has opinions (source: Sam Arbesman’s Magic of Code)
A new, expanded iteration of my pandemic show of compulsively straightened trees and hand-rendered dither patterns opens tomorrow; join me Wed Sept 24, 5-8pm @ Higher Pictures, 45 Main Street #723 Brooklyn
Also a chance to see the esolangs book with @mitpress.bsky.social which has pub date TODAY!
Also a chance to see the esolangs book with @mitpress.bsky.social which has pub date TODAY!
September 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A new, expanded iteration of my pandemic show of compulsively straightened trees and hand-rendered dither patterns opens tomorrow; join me Wed Sept 24, 5-8pm @ Higher Pictures, 45 Main Street #723 Brooklyn
Also a chance to see the esolangs book with @mitpress.bsky.social which has pub date TODAY!
Also a chance to see the esolangs book with @mitpress.bsky.social which has pub date TODAY!
Mouthbags: it’s what’s for dinner
June 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mouthbags: it’s what’s for dinner
Here is what people say about it:
June 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Here is what people say about it:
If you’re at GPN23,come here me speak (after two nights of not sleeping in airport terminals and planes!) on the language Rivulet! It looks like this:
June 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
If you’re at GPN23,come here me speak (after two nights of not sleeping in airport terminals and planes!) on the language Rivulet! It looks like this: