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You Will Need:

• One white candle 
• One black candle
• A poppet/symbol of your ex-friend
• A laundry list of things that made the friendship miserable
• Gravel or rocks
• A box

Step One: Name your poppet and place it on your work space. Say: 

[TARGET’S FULL NAME], I will let you go, 
but not before I am heard.

Step Two: Read your list to the poppet. Make sure you get all of your aggression out. Don’t leave anything unsaid. Say:

I give back all of the problems you piled onto me. 
May they return to you and stay there.   I give back all of the negativity you placed on my doorstep.
May it find its way home and stay there. I take back the time and energy I spent on you.
May I feel energy and happiness again.  I take back all of the money and things I gave/lent to you.
May you lose your fortune on the wind.

Step Three: Place your poppet in the box and say, “My parting gift to you, __________, is trouble.” Add the rocks or gravel to the box, saying:

I give you trouble in luck.
I give you trouble in love.
I give you loss of sleep.
I give you loss of prosperity.
I give you unhappiness.
I give you the strife you gave me.
…

List anything you can think of.  Step Four: When the poppet is buried in rocks/gravel, close the box and bury it. Spit on the burial spot.  Step Five: Light the white candle, saying, “I light this candle to cleanse myself and my home of your presence.” Light the black candle, saying, “I light this candle to send you negativity back to you, and to protect me from people like you in the future.”

This text comes from the post/discussion I’m having with @spellscript & @sub-urbanwitchery & @madstardust. I’m just throwing some ideas, this post will evolve with time - I don’t know yet if I’ll edit it or make several versions, we’ll see!

The basic ideas is we want to blend actual code and magic, bringing the “techno witchcraft“ to a new level. I also like the idea to use hardware in magic according to their use in technology. Anyway, here are my first ideas, along with some things i found on the Internet!

Please keep in mind that I am a beginner witch, and thus may have made mistakes. If you are a beginner witch as well, please wait for the revised version before experimenting with these ideas. If you are a witch with some experience and you see something wrong, please let me know as soon as possible and try and explain me why it is wrong, so that I can modify it accordingly.
Although I have been studying coding for 4 years, nobody can know everything about coding and technology in general. Please let me know if something sounds wrong techno-wise as well.

Use Code Languages to Write Your Spells

- Simply put, write your spells in C, C++, JavaScript or whichever language you feel most comfortable with. [idea from @lunartechwitch, and you can check her C++ spells here]
- Write protection spells with if/then conditions [idea by @madstardust]

I would however tend to discourage witches not understanding these languages to not use already made spells they find on Internet. It is quite sad to not understand what you’re casting, but more importantly it can be risky, because you could be casting something dangerous without knowing it. A few weeks of basic coding tutorials should allow you to understand the spells you find, even if your level is not high enough to write them yourself :)

Automated Spells

The basic idea would be to write a spell with code and to run it in the background (be it on your computer, a server, a raspberry pi…), so that when it needs to (every hour, when the moon is in this or that phase, etc.) the little software would automatically cast the spell.
My personal problem with that would be… the lack of intent?
For instance, I saw this cute code prayer in C++ to the Moon by @lunartechwitch and I love it! But if we use it as described above, that is to say that the prayer is automatically casted everyday and that it changes depending on the current phase of the moon, then… where is the intent? There was intent while coding it, there was intent while casting/running it for the first time, but then we can just forget about it…
I guess this could be less problematic with a spell, because in my mind at least a spell needs a lot of intent in it’s original casting but it can then “run in the background“ like we can see with spell jars and such. So this could be an idea. I’m waiting to hear your thoughts about this!
[idea by @spellscript]

For the Coder Witch

- Write spells for your code to be easier to write, less buggy, and to improve your coding focus in the comment section of your code. For more discretion if you’re working with others you can write it in a barely used yet well connected with the whole project file (ex: Makefile, Read Me etc.). We need to find a way to make it totally undetectable for the secret witch coding in the same file as other people…
- Add some hidden code (either comment sections, or just use CSS to not display it) in your website, for various purposes ranging from protection to popularity [idea by @madstardust]
- Add some sigils in ASCII art hidden in the code of your website or software [idea by an anonymous poster]

Hardware Use

- Take a USB key, the inside of a broken USB key, a SD card, a broken piece from a CD/CD-Rom/floppy disk or any other memory-related object, write a sigil on it (or not) and carry it around for better memory.
- Take a piece of an old circuit board, the head of a cut Ethernet cable, the transmission piece of a WiFi modem, write a sigil on it (or not) and carry it around to improve your communication with others.
- Take a piece of a broken smartphone, computer or TV screen and carry it around (with a sigil on it or not) or include it in your spells for clarity, clearer vision, to not be blinded by emotions, etc.

honestly… tbh,. to be honest, to be totally honest… to tbh be honest..