Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl, discusses its origins, 20 billion installations, space projects, and coding in C vs. Rust. They explore Rust and C integration challenges, parallel processing, and adapting curl across platforms. The podcast ends with encouragement for the Rust community to participate in open source projects.

Daniel Stenberg, the creator of cURL and a champion of open source, dives into the complexities of internet protocols and the evolution of cURL as it marks its 26th anniversary. He discusses critical topics like financial independence in open source, the challenges of legacy planning, and the balance of decentralization versus centralization in social media platforms. Stenberg also shares his vision on ensuring cURL's reliability and security amid technological advancements and the importance of community engagement in development.

Daniel Stenberg shares guiding principles for BDFL’ing curl, talks about financial independence, and ensuring curl's future. They discuss transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6, managing AI-generated content, the role of Neon in database management, and the importance of contingency planning and leadership succession. Also, they explore front-end feature integration, internet security measures, and the development of a new command line tool for URL manipulations.

Experienced developer frustrated with AI tooling for finding security bugs, web developer surprised by weird beliefs in engineering, fallout from nasty npm prank, thoughts on what they got right and wrong with Go, and challenging the view that all code is tech debt.

Daniel Stenberg is frustrated with AI tooling for finding security bugs, Brian Birtles shares surprising web dev beliefs, Feross Aboukhadijeh talks about npm prank fallout, Rob Pike discusses right and wrong with Go, and Gavin Howard challenges the idea that “all code is tech debt”.