Writing Wohpe (2022)

I absolutely love Antirez's work with Redis, and the way he handled the Redis community and his "departure" from it. Redis is a fundamental piece of technology in today's IT world.

(I also met him a few times and I can assure you he's a really nice human being, too).

I had my own career in IT, with some success (nothing compared to having created Redis, of course!), and ~20 years ago I also wrote a sci-fi novel that somehow reminds me of Wohpe - even though, without false modesty, I believe that Wohpe is way, way better than mine.

I think it's nice when, as a tech person, you feel the desire to write a sci-fi novel, and put some crazy ideas in the form of a novel.

If you are curious, the novel can be freely downloaded here [0]. There's an Italian version, and and English version that I created using GPT-4 (for translation only).

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/Nonovvio

I like a lot the English version; I would read another novel in that line.

I also like your mindset to write code; redis is an artwork.