Updated, thanks.

Author here. I don’t think ASCII is the right comparison. True, it would be really hard for anything to compete with Git because a lot of infrastructures we have are already deeply integrated with Git. But think about x86 vs. ARM and how AI might change our ways of producing code.

Author here. That's a good catch, thanks! I've replaced it with a newer screenshot from August 2008.

Larry wants to call you and discuss two corrections to this piece ("one minor, one major"). I've already passed on your email address for good measure, but you should reach out to him.

I've emailed him to follow up. Thanks for letting me know!

Thanks for writing this. This story is rarely told correctly and you mostly got it as I remember it.

@antirez I'm the author of the post. It's a privilege to see your comment here. Thank you so much for the comment, and of course, Redis!

Sorry about those errors. I've fixed them in the story.

A follow-up question about Twitter if you don't mind: did you actually fly to Twitter HQ in California and design the timeline cache with Rob Pointer, who was a Twitter employee at the time? How did that happen?

A big thank you, eliangcs. The errors were minimal, you did an awesome research work, and identified, I believe, the truly important things that step by step lead to the creation of my programming background and Redis. Another comment here replied even better than me the Twitter HQ meeting. I believe who invited me even this first time to visit the Twitter offices, and later invited me again multiple times, was Yao Yue.

See my other comment, but yes, we met with antirez at Twitter HQ (on 3rd and Folsom at the time).

I know the guy in person. I was going to send him the link and tell him "look, it's you!". But turns out he already knew and left that comment.

Would you rather do that because of the AGPL licensing? I ask because you don't have to donate or pay to use this tool unless you want to use the latest features earlier.

BSD license is a lot friendlier. If one is gaining experience with the codebase, it seems more useful to get experience with the BSD codebase, since one can then use that codebase in projects.

It's not new. One example I look up to is Sidekiq (http://sidekiq.org). It offers a paid subscription for its pro version.

Right, but sidekiq's pro version isn't in a github repo. They host a private repo for you when you fork over the cash and discontinue it after a year.

HTTP Prompt paid version isn't on GitHub either. It's hosted on a private server only available for paid users.

Hi, author here. Thanks for the feedback! I'll fix that fork term mistake soon. That is a stupid mistake.

I just started this subscription recently as an experiment to see if I can make a sustainable open source project. I haven't made any money from it yet. And I haven't decided if and how we should give royalties with contributors. If I get lucky, the business model works, this topic is open for discussion among contributors.

I made another tool similar to this, but instead of being based on curl, it's based on httpie: http://http-prompt.com

Author here. HTTP Prompt is a command line tool that boosts HTTPie with autocomplete and interactivity. Any feedback is appreciated!