The earliest memory I have of ‘programming’ is in the early/mid 90s when my father brought home a computer from work. We could play games on it … so of course I took the spreadsheet program he used (LOTUS 123, did I date myself with that?) and tried to modify it to print out a helpful message for him. It … halfway worked? At least I could undo it so he could get back to work…

After that, I picked up programming for real in QBASIC (I still have a few of those programs lying around), got my own (junky) Linux desktop from my cousin, tried to learn VBasic (without a Windows machine), and eventually made it to high school… In college, I studied computer science and mathematics, mostly programming in Java/.NET, although with a bit of everything in the mix. A few of my oldest programming posts on this blog are from that time.

After that, on to grad school! Originally, I was going to study computational linguistics, but that fell through. Then programming languages (the school’s specialty). And finally I ended up studying censorship and computer security. That’s about where I am today!

But really, I still have a habit of doing a little bit of everything. Whatever seems interesting at the time!

Genuary 2023.29: Maximalism

2023-03-01

Genuary!

Spend a month making one beautiful thing per day, given a bunch of prompts. A month late, but as they say, ’the second best time is now'.

Let’s do it!

29) Maximalism

Genuary 2023.28: Generative poetry

2023-02-28

Genuary!

Spend a month making one beautiful thing per day, given a bunch of prompts. A month late, but as they say, ’the second best time is now'.

Let’s do it!

28) Generative poetry

Redis in Rust: Testing redis-cli + GET/SET support

2023-02-28

And I’m back. It’s been a busy month with the [Genuary]([Genuary 2023]) series and life in general, but I’m still thinking about Redis in general 😄.

Up this time, let’s see what the official redis-cli app does when talking to our client and actually start handling some commands. Specifically, the very basic commands: SET and GET. With that, we would actually have a (very very basic) keystore up and running!