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https://tar.dev/
Tarandir is a richly crafted personal site by a language enthusiast and web tinkerer who built a desktop-first, Web 1.0-styled experience complete with a drawbox, guestbook, Harry Potter quiz, and even a constructed language called Nûnþæðkira. The site blends a terminal aesthetic with personal achievements, vinyl and book collections, and links to an IndieWeb community, making it a genuine labor of love.
https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/vedol/0
Hosted by the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, this site offers a structured lesson series for learning Ancient Sanskrit, the oldest known form of the language predating Classical Sanskrit. It features Rigveda readings with glossaries, dictionaries, and linguistic annotations, making it an invaluable resource for students of ancient Indo-European languages.
https://lexilogos.com/francais_ancien.htm
Lexilogos, created by Xavier Nègre, is a comprehensive reference portal aggregating dictionaries and lexicons for Old and Middle French from the 9th through the 16th centuries, including the renowned Godefroy dictionary and the DMF. Researchers and language enthusiasts will find an impressive collection of searchable historical dictionaries, travel narrative corpora, and scholarly lexicographic resources covering medieval French dialects and Romance languages.
https://silvercat.neocities.org/
Silvercat has built an elaborate collection of constructed languages inspired by the Thundercats universe, including fully developed grammars, lexicons, writing systems, and cultural worldbuilding for multiple Thunderian civilizations. Each conlang like Ylialis, Nyjejualin, and Maanxmuʃt comes with detailed linguistic notes, phonology, and an immersive in-universe framing that makes this a serious conlanging project.
http://jonraasch.com/blog/javascript-translation-widget
Jon Raasch, a freelance web developer from Portland, OR, presents TranslateThis, a lightweight JavaScript widget that taps into the Google Language API to add 52-language translation to any website with a simple copy-and-paste install. The post covers customization options including Google Analytics tracking, styling, callback functions, and language filtering, making it a practical resource for both beginners and experienced front-end developers.
https://esoteric.codes/
Esoteric.codes is a deep-dive publication dedicated to esoteric programming languages, weird computational systems, and the artists and tinkerers who create them. Featuring interviews with esolangers, code poets, and livecoding pioneers, it covers everything from minimalist languages to constraint-based systems that deliberately challenge the conventions of computing.
https://ersatz.website/
Ersatz.website is a minimalist personal blog featuring a generative art HTML canvas piece inspired by Vera Molnar and the book 'Beautiful Racket', a programming language textbook. The site sits at the intersection of creative coding and computer science, hinting at content about generative art and the Racket programming language.
https://danieltemkin.com/UnicodeFrenzy/1
Daniel Temkin is an artist and programmer whose Unicode Frenzy series (2011-2012) explores experimental and esoteric programming languages through creative works. The site showcases a body of work that sits at the intersection of code art and language design, including a collection of forty-four esolangs.
https://lirvin.net/Barn/files/docs/cve98.html
An academic paper by Anna Cicognani from the University of Sydney exploring the concept of a design language within text-based virtual communities, specifically MOOs, drawing on Speech Act Theory to analyze how commands function as performative acts. The work bridges linguistics, architecture, and cyberspace theory, making it a fascinating artifact of 1990s academic thinking about virtual environments and online community design.
https://thecodelesscode.com/case/38
The Codeless Code is an illustrated collection of Zen-style koans and fables about software development, written by the mysterious author Qi and featuring masters, novices, and philosophical puzzles about programming and management. Each case offers a short parable with commentary and a poem, available in multiple languages including German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Russian.