Good question indeed, my friend.
Recently, I've come to the conclusion that regular programming can get a bit boring at times, and so I decided to add a bit more surrealism to it. Well, or something like that anyways...
The idea is that I have a repository of smaller projects created with different languages and technologies. Each project is a stand-alone program, but they are all tied together, kind of like a music album.
What I take from surrealism is the lack of goals and minimal planning. When I start a project, I don't really think of what it will become, just about what I feel like writing right now, and something eventually comes into existence.
The final program can be anything, just probably not something particularly useful. It's supposed to be art after all. And since it's more art than engineering, why stop with the surrealism at the final product? Code does not have to follow any conventions after all, so feel free to go wild with formatting, naming, comments and whatever you feel like. It's all part of the [E X P E R I E N C E], after all!
Oh yea, since the programs are a bunch of different things, many probably not fitting in any fixed category of software (perhaps they are demos?), I'm just calling them [E X P E R I E N C E]s.
And yes, just like surrealism, I probably start sub-consciously expressing some of my feelings in the project, which I might pick up on half way through and start also expressing them consciously a bit. But the expressions are not always the easiest to pick up on, as expressing something in an understandable way is not the goal, and I don't feel like deconstructing the symbolism in here, so don't expect that much in this regard.
The project is on: Github and itch.io. The first [E X P E R I E N C E], outside of having a b-log, is also available on the WASM-4 website.
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