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Episode 505: Daniel Stenberg on 25 years with cURL

Mar 29, 2022

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Curl Security

03:57

I've Had to Say, No, That Doesn't Work

03:06

What Makes Curl and Libcro Succeed?

01:34

Introduction

2min

How to Download Currency Rates Using HTTP

5min

LibCurrent - A Libular Cursor Plugin

2min

What Did You Learn in the First Ten Minutes?

2min

Is HTTP Getting More Complicated Over Time?

3min

Curl and LibCorl Are the Best of the Bunch.

2min

What's Your Favorite Moment in Time?

3min

The Usurbas Figures - What's the Difference?

3min

Curl Security

4min

10.

Curl Curl

4min

11.

How to Get Help With Soft Work Problems

4min

12.

Build Curl to Day or Lib Curly to Day?

2min

13.

The Sea Version of C Will Still Be Available and Used in a Lot of Places.

2min

14.

Release Cycle and Feature Request Process

4min

15.

What Features Do We Merge When We Have a New Release?

3min

16.

Do You Have Any Good Ideas?

2min

17.

I've Had to Say, No, That Doesn't Work

3min

18.

What Advice Can You Give to Other Sos Project Founders?

4min

19.

Open Source Maintainer, I'm the Only One Working on It Time

3min

20.

Lib Curl, Dashdah

2min

21.

How to Do a Lib Curl Application

2min

22.

What Makes Curl and Libcro Succeed?

2min

23.

What Do You Think We're Missing?

2min

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL and libcurl, and winner of the Polhem Prize, discusses the history of the project, key events in the project timeline, war stories, favorite command line options and various experiences from 25 years of developing an Open Source project.