Hi there, I'm Chris Pressey. Most of the things I make, I make under the auspices ofCat's Eye Technologies,so if you're looking for things I've made, you probably want to look athttps://codeberg.org/catseye instead.

• 1993: InventedBefunge, an influential esolang
• 1995: EstablishedCat's Eye Technologies
• 1996: Coined the term "esoteric programming language", which eventually got shortened to "esolang"
• 1994-2019: Invented dozens of other esolangs, some of which have also been influential (e.g.SMITH,Mascarpone)
• 2009: Wrotean award-winning video game
• 2010: Developed the practice ofTest-Driven Language Design (TDLD)
• 2011: Signed up for GitHub
• 2013: For thefirst NaNoGenMo, wroteThe Swallows, an influential novel generator / generated novel
• 2014-2023: Wrote a number of other novel generators, some of which have also been notable (e.g.MARYSUE,Samovar)
• 2015: Wrotesome award-winning 6502 code ... by hand
• 2022: Wrotea thing about state machines thatgot 700+ stars on GitHub
• 2023: Inventeda grammar formalism for CSLs that can both parse and generate efficiently
• 2023: Stopped using GitHub¹
• 2023: Moved toCodeberg, anon-profit code host runningopen-source software

When Microsoft acquired GitHub, I didn't leave immediately. I wanted to give them a chance. Well, they had their chance.

It's not that I've suddenly become a Free Software zealot. But I do think open source should be more than just something that enables a"Community Tier (FREE!)" business model.

There is also a significant amount of irony in a code host based on an open-source distributed version control system becoming "too big to fail",and actually, when I say "significant", what I mean is "insupportable". So, I can no longer in good conscience support it.

¹ As far as is humanly possible. Actually, insofar as what I've done has been open sourced I can't actually prevent anyone fromuploading it here, "stopping using GitHub" for me consists in (a) not visiting the site if I don't have a very good reason to, (b) not hyperlinkingto content on GitHub if there is any other option, and (c) promoting viable alternatives, such asCodeberg.

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   MOVED to https://codeberg.org/catseye/The-Dossier/src/branch/master/article/Some-Games-of-Note#some-games-of-note : A catalogue of games that I consider notable in some way. Most can be played onli…

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