Programming

It should come as no big surprise if you've been reading this blog that a big passion in my life is programming. It has been a hobby of mine since sometime in the nineties (probably 1994, 95 or sometime around this - my oldest "proof" of something I wrote is the small BBS intro flower.com which is dated September 1996) and my primary way to make my living since 1999, with very few exceptions.

During these years, I've produced a number of different projects on my spare time, of various size and grade of "seriosity". Here is a list of some of these projects. I'm hoping to add more links to this list over time, adding binaries and sometimes the source code (in the cases where it hasn't gotten lost over the years.) Many have been solo projects, others have been cooperative projects with my brother Johannes Ridderstedt, who has been an invaluable source of help and inspiration when learning about computer hardware, software and programming. This list wouldn't be what it is without him - thanks bro, I owe you a lot!

• 1996: flower.com (BBS intro, written in x86 assembly for MS-DOS.)
• 1997: Gameland intro (original probably in C, for MS-DOS. See further down for intro about the later rewrite.
• 1998: rot13 TSR (x86 assembly for MS-DOS)
• 1999: Cybermario, an unfinished Mario-spinoff game (C++ for MS-DOS)
• 1999: Tribes, an unfinished Civilization clone (C, targetting GTK/Linux)
• 1999: chaos, an operating system (C & x86 assembly)
• 2004: iZ, a CMS written using PHP & MySQL
• 2008: cocos, a simple operating system-like toy for x86-64. (C & x86 assembly)
• 2013: Billigaste Matkassen, a shopping price analyzing helper. Web app written using JavaScript & jQuery with backend in Ruby with Redis.
• 2013: Imported the chaos source code to GitHub and started looking into making it compile & run again on modern gcc versions. A lot of the existing functionality is now working again as of 2018.
• 2018: Gameland rewrite, this time in Rust, targetting WebAssembly.)