Notices by daniel:// stenberg:// (bagder@mastodon.social)

It's time to re-enjoy this golden quote about me and #curl, shown in the most awesome way.

This blog post touches my reality in ways I can relate to. "The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective"

People often ask me what I do all days working full-time on a product that to them seemingly does the same thing now it did already ten years ago (at least). Maintenance is the gift that never stops giving.

https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/reality-long-term-software-1892

Someone should refresh these benchmarks and test a modern #pycurl against python requests.

"PyCurl is much faster than Requests (or other HTTP client libraries), generally completing smaller requests 2-3x as fast, and requires 3-10x less CPU time" (nine years ago)

https://github.com/svanoort/python-client-benchmarks

https://github.com/php-mod/curl/issues/108 #curl

lemme show you 140,000 (!) places in code where certificate verification is switched off when using libcurl: https://github.com/search?q=CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER%2C+FALSE&type=code

@selea it does... It should probably be made clearer in some docs somewhere!

The morning after. Feels surreal and humbling.

Award-winning

@nixCraft oil painting on canvas

@nixCraft the refreshing lack of tech billionaires

I mean, Jack Dorsey speaking about "Infusing Open Source Culture into Company DNA" when not a single soul has ever heard of him in relation to Open Source before this talk title would have worked as a joke to me.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4507-infusing-open-source-culture-into-company-dna-a-conversation-with-jack-dorsey-and-manik-surtani-block-s-head-of-open-source/

With @icing's help, we made our first transfers with #curl respecting HTTPS RR records (RFC 9460) today. Kind of cool. Needs more work before it becomes truly useful, and in particular to use it without DoH, but hey. It's a step. There will be many more.

I have actually had #GitHub #Copilot enabled for me for free for several years and I can tell you the exact number of times I have used it: zero (0)

"we are a monster-sized US tech firm with almost a trillion dollar market cap.We are a bureaucratic nightmare so please give us the info for free instead of us having to help your open source project financially and we can keep using it for free in all eternity. kthxbye"

#nope

@selea and you are *sure* curl has run on Maestro? I find no evidence trying to google this.

If you have run #curl on an OS not listed here already, let me know. 102 operating systems.

104

@selea @Drakfot For sure, I consider bringing and distributing stickers my main mission! 😁

I bet you already knew that I will speak at FOSS-north in April 2025: https://foss-north.se/news/daniel-stenberg-to-speak-at-foss-north-2025-4/

For a Linux and Open Source person such as yours truly, there is simply no point in becoming a Microsoft MVP. It is an honor and a kind of award, but after two months on the inside I can now say that absolutely nothing they offer in the program interests me.

Zero Open Source stuff. Zero about protocols. Zero about any Open technologies at all. 100% boring.

This is not a dis on other MVPs. It just describes how it works for me.