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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