antirez

Developer Salvatore Sanfilippo, known as antirez, has released a Commodore 64 hardware simulator on GitHub that models the vintage computer's chips and pins, allowing users to break components and see the resulting behaviour. The project is drawing attention from retro-computing fans and engineers interested in hands-on hardware learning without physical equipment.

An older talk by Salvatore Sanfilippo, the Italian programmer known as antirez and creator of Redis, is being shared again. In it he discusses artificial intelligence and open source, arguing that AI has changed developers' work while amplifying long-standing problems in the field. Fans are calling him a hero of contemporary computer science.