anpep
Reminds me of japanese anime Dennō Coil, where kids would draw computer programs almost exactly like the author’s on the floor and invoke them as some kind of enchantement. Highly recommend it!
blkhawk
I loved that show. It showed how children deal with new technology different from how adults deal with it. It predated even google glass by half a decade.
Aeolun
I should rewatch that. There’s many shows that get worse over time, but I just don’t think anything has changed in regards to DC. Even now it’ll seem like pure magic, but just close enough to believable you might see it in your lifetime.
Of course my lifetime has marched on relentlessly since I first saw it.
ryandv
More on chaos magick and sigil casting 101: https://archive.org/details/the-psychonaut-field-manual
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philodeon
Dude, the Laundry is trying to relax on the weekend. Don’t make them call the Plumbers out.
anthk
Torres Quevedo did it first but with symbols on mechanic hardware and processes.
Also, Babbage with literal gears. Look up for electromechanical computation.
roymurdock
Awesome.
joisig
Very cool!
tehasem
cool!!!
aspizu
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This must be the preferred programming language of the otherworldly main character of Aphyr's "Xing the technical interview" sequence of blog posts [1]. Would definitely deserve its own entry in the series.
[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview