Daniel Stenberg shares his guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, gives us his perspective on the state of the internet, talks financial independence, ensuring curl won’t be the next XZ & more!
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Featuring:
- Daniel Stenberg – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- curl turns 26 today
- My BDFL guiding principles
- The I in LLM stands for intelligence
- tiny-curl
- Verified curl
- How to verify a curl release
- github.com/curl/trurl
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