Illustration: an open cookbook on a wooden kitchen table, beside a small cream radio served on a plate with rosemary

A cookbook of software, written in EPL

The Software Chef

Recipes by Aizu Ikmal

Software you can read before you run it. Every dish here is a recipe written in plain English. Give it to your own LLM, and it cooks the app on your own computer.

Introducing EPL, the English Programming Language

The only programming language you already know.

Python

requests.post("https://x.io/up",
    files={"f": open(path, "rb")})

EPL

“Also send the person’s files to a server.”

Same instruction. One of these you can read.

Compiler
Your LLM
Standard library
The dictionary
Type system
must, never, only
Syntax errors
Ambiguity
Unit tests
“How to know it’s cooked”
Package manager
None, by rule

Read the EPL notes →

Served fresh. Tasted before it leaves the kitchen.

House rules

  1. No code in any recipe. Only English. Your LLM writes every line of code itself, fresh, on your machine. Nothing to download but the recipe.
  2. Allergens on every plate. Each recipe opens with what the app may touch: internet, files, settings. The cook is told never to go beyond it.
  3. Tasted before served. Each recipe carries stamps for the models that have cooked it cleanly from an empty folder, again and again.

How this kitchen works →