Esoteric Typing

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Disclaimer: this post may ramble. I may make a part two, depending on what I get to cover. PPCG.se is a curious site. It resides on the Stack Exchange platform, which traditionally contains Question and Answer sites. However, out of the subculture of code golf found on the early days of Stack Overflow, came PPCG.se—the somewhat misnamed "Programming Puzzles and Code Golf". This site has evolved and formalized over the years, and its appeal for some has changed. Constituents of this site include programmers by profession and by hobby, and even non-programmers who like the challenge of programming in esolangs. I am included in this number, and have for years enjoyed this platform. It is necessary at this point for me to describe my relation with this site and how I feel about it. In order to do this, I will describe some relevant background information. What PPCG.se was, and what it is now PPCG.se, at its incarnation, was devoted primarily to code golf and to programming p