Reminds me of japanese anime Dennō Coil, where kids would draw computer programs almost exactly like the author’s on the floor and invoke them as some kind of enchantement. Highly recommend it!

Awesome.

Dude, the Laundry is trying to relax on the weekend. Don’t make them call the Plumbers out.

Very cool!

Torres Quevedo did it first but with symbols on mechanic hardware and processes.

Also, Babbage with literal gears. Look up for electromechanical computation.

cool!!!

More on chaos magick and sigil casting 101: https://archive.org/details/the-psychonaut-field-manual

This must be the preferred programming language of the otherworldly main character of Aphyr's "Xing the technical interview" sequence of blog posts [1]. Would definitely deserve its own entry in the series.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview