Hi there, I'm Chris Pressey. Most of the things I make, I make under the auspices of Cat's Eye Technologies, so if you're looking for things I've made, you probably want to look at https://codeberg.org/catseye instead.
- 1993: Invented Befunge, an influential esolang
- 1995: Established Cat'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: Wrote an award-winning video game
- 2010: Developed the practice of Test-Driven Language Design (TDLD)
- 2011: Signed up for GitHub
- 2013: For the first NaNoGenMo, wrote The 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: Wrote some award-winning 6502 code ... by hand
- 2022: Wrote a thing about state machines that got 700+ stars on GitHub
- 2023: Invented a grammar formalism for CSLs that can both parse and generate efficiently
- 2023: Stopped using GitHub for my projects, because they are non-commercial
- 2023: Moved to Codeberg, a non-profit code host running open-source software
- 2024-present: lots more interesting things that you can read about on my account on Codeberg