PROGRAMMING IN CLASSICAL CHINESE

by Camille Picard | Jan 19, 2026 | Cultural artefact

PROGRAMMING IN CLASSICAL CHINESE Lingdong Huang et al., An Introduction to Programming in Wenyan, 2020 [CC BY-NC 4.0]. RELIC This yellowed code was designed to look as if it came from an ancient book. In reality, the work is less than a decade old – and likely exists...

MEDIATING THE LAGOON: Programming Interaction with Natural Language

by Camille Picard | Jan 18, 2026 | Mirror of society

MEDIATING THE LAGOON: Programming Interaction with Natural Language Sofia Greggio, System prompt excerpt in JSON from AQUA, a Socratic Tutor fine-tuned on Venetian lagoon data, 2024. ABOUT CODE This code represents a recent, if not entirely new, trend in programming....

In Case of Emergency, GIT STASH

by Camille Picard | Jan 18, 2026 | Mirror of society

In Case of Emergency, GIT STASH Nanako Shiraishi, Code and commit message, committed on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 at 14:37:09 (UTC+09:00) [GNU General Public License v2]. ABOUT CODE This small script adds a new functionality (the stash command) to the Git environment,...

THE CONSTANT

by Camille Picard | Jan 17, 2026 | Mirror of society

THE CONSTANT Extract from the chess engine Stockfish’s source code, file position.cpp.Available at https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish [GNU General Public License]. ABOUT CODE Computer programs are living, evolving objects; new features are added,...

WHEN CELLS BECAME CODE: A computer scientist’s journey into digital pathology

by Camille Picard | Jan 17, 2026 | Mirror of society

WHEN CELLS BECAME CODE: A computer scientist’s journey into digital pathology Esha Sadia Nasir, Nuclei segmentation code used in research on digital pathology image analysis, 2024 [MIT License]. ABOUT CODE In pathology, trained specialists have traditionally examined...