I kind of love this. This article about generative artwork was recently posted on Hacker News and it was my introduction to the Georg Nees piece being reproduced here. I wonder if the Redis dev...
I kind of love this. This article about generative artwork was recently posted on Hacker News and it was my introduction to the Georg Nees piece being reproduced here. I wonder if the Redis dev was inspired by that or if it's just a bit of random synchronicity. I for one welcome the return of whimsical easter eggs in popular software (as long as they have no measurable impact on the software's performance).
BTW as someone familiar with Redis but not antirez, does the latter refer to a single person or the collective Redis dev organization? The blog post doesn't really make it clear to me if the author speaks for the group or a member of it.
antirez is the username/handle for Salvatore Sanfilippo, the main guy behind Redis. Other people work on it now, but Redis has always been his brainchild. He also posts on HN and I think reddit...
antirez is the username/handle for Salvatore Sanfilippo, the main guy behind Redis. Other people work on it now, but Redis has always been his brainchild. He also posts on HN and I think reddit using that name when there's news about Redis.
If you want to know more about him, he did some screencasts where he walks through the Redis source code and talks about how it works. Production quality on the videos isn't great but he's absolutely brilliant and the Redis codebase is some of the highest-quality C I've ever read so it's worthwhile.
I kind of love this. This article about generative artwork was recently posted on Hacker News and it was my introduction to the Georg Nees piece being reproduced here. I wonder if the Redis dev was inspired by that or if it's just a bit of random synchronicity. I for one welcome the return of whimsical easter eggs in popular software (as long as they have no measurable impact on the software's performance).
BTW as someone familiar with Redis but not antirez, does the latter refer to a single person or the collective Redis dev organization? The blog post doesn't really make it clear to me if the author speaks for the group or a member of it.
antirez is the username/handle for Salvatore Sanfilippo, the main guy behind Redis. Other people work on it now, but Redis has always been his brainchild. He also posts on HN and I think reddit using that name when there's news about Redis.
If you want to know more about him, he did some screencasts where he walks through the Redis source code and talks about how it works. Production quality on the videos isn't great but he's absolutely brilliant and the Redis codebase is some of the highest-quality C I've ever read so it's worthwhile.
Ah, awesome! Thanks for the info.