Poems in an accidental language
summary
Made as a class assignment in 2013 and graded 110%, Tracery is a tiny JSON context‑free grammar engine shipped as a compact JavaScript library, open sourced free as in mattress and adopted by a few thousand users who run bots that suggest cocktails create poetry meditate on loneliness or scream; people host generators on services that render SVG and tweet repeatedly, it spawns art sites and musical and language experiments, and a later, more ambitious Google‑backed sequel aims higher but so far loses the original’s simple reach.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30About Kate
- 4:19About Tracer
- 8:46Examples
- 12:31Artbot Club
- 14:24Prototype Theory
- 16:03Programming Languages
- 16:55The Programming Brain
- 21:50Inform7 Example
- 23:46Tracery
- 25:25Music
- 28:12Encoding
- 31:25Emma Windsor
- 32:57Ann Hutchinson
- 34:48Wobble notation
- 36:28Ontology
- 38:36Ontology Workshops
- 41:10Cow Tools
- 43:08Ontologies
- 44:58Other tools
- 47:02Building things
- 48:14Writing an API
