From Hobby to Profession: The Curl Journey

This week we’re talking with Daniel Stenberg about 23 years of curl. Daniel shares how curl came to be, what drives and motivates him, maintaining a good cadence of an open source product, what to expect from http3, how many billions of users curl has, and Daniel also shares some funny stories like the “Spotify and Instagram hacking ring.”

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Featuring:

• Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• The Changelog #153: 17 Years of curl with Daniel Stenberg
• The Changelog: BONUS — Magic cURL Feature
• The Changelog #299: Curl turns 20, HTTP/2, QUIC with Daniel Stenberg
• HTTPie
• Half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
• curl is C
• Rust in curl with Hyper
• “I will slaughter you”
• curl Commercial Support
• Everything curl: –libcurl
• The Changelog #389: Securing the web with Let’s Encrypt featuring Josh Aas

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