Featured Pages

Daily Poems (2019): (Working Of The Eye To The Work [pdf])

A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander [pdf]

History of Programming Languages IV [HOPL]

Tuned Adrenaline: A Beat-Boogied Headful [pdf], a chapbook in memory of Ron Goldman

"in the control room of the banquet" [pdf]

InkWell: A Creative Writer's Creative Assistant [pdf]

I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips [pdf]

The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf]

Waltz in Illinois [pdf]

Publication Culture in Computer Science and Software Engineering [pdf]

RPG 2015: A Sporadic Conference

Defamiliarization: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Using Flawed Software Tools as Creative Partners [workshop version: 1 mb pdf] [journal version: pdf]

Better Science Through Art (2.1 mb pdf)

Worse is Better, full paper, history, and responses

The Rise of Worse is Better, the part everyone talks about

Science is Not Enough: On the Creation of Software [script (pdf)][slides (6.8mb pdf)]

Designed as Designer, an essay on design and creativity

A Pattern of Language Evolution

The Poetry of Programming

The Art of Lisp & Writing

Books I've written [New: Drive On (poetry); Innovation Happens Elsewhere (open source)Jolt Productivity Award Winner; pdf of final typeset version of Writers' Workshop now available]

Kholstomer: The History of a Horse by Leo Tolstoy