This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal Schwartz chat with Daniel Stenberg about curl! How many curl installs are there?! What’s the deal with CVEs? How has curl managed to not break its ABI for 18 years straight? And how did Daniel turn all this into a career instead of just a hobby? Watch to find out!
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Your link for Daniel Stenberg takes us to Xitter, which he no longer uses. How about this link instead? https://daniel.haxx.se/
I saw the pinned post. Ironically, his last post to X is just 2 days ago, so looks like he begrudgingly came back to the platform, and never bothered to remove the post.
Yes, but Xitter. Avoid at all costs.
Why is that?
I mean, so far I haven’t had a compelling reason to join, but what would be a reason not to participate?
Just avoid all social media. It is all shit although the curl site itself does a crap job of explaining what it is/does. Just magic beans used by the whole internet for 30 friggin years. I would think someone there could come up with a better intro blurb…
“Someone there”? You realise it’s just one guy, right?
Great episode, guys. The name of the utility tool called “trurl” rang a bell for me and, indeed, was the name of a main character from Stanisław Lem’s wonderful Sci-Fi series The Cyberiad. Surely this was known to Mr. Stenberg?
You’d think so, as anything with Constructors as protagonists would seem to resonate with our crowd… but somehow, Lem’s works just aren’t at all well-known. Which is sad…
Your comment sent me down a Cyberiad rabbit hole that I managed to claw my way out of after 45 minutes or so!