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

@nixCraft 1. bonus for the typo in the title

2. Lots of people have already found and asked me about the Casio fx-180P calculator on the table behind me 😀 (no, I don't use it)

Ready for the #polhemspriset awards gala tonight.

Daniel's weekly report November 1, 2024

https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2024-November/000088.html

FOSDEM, ABI, source code age, release prep, hackerone, slowember, deleting cookies, rock-solid, MVP

#curl source code age, take 4

I looked at the first ten minutes of the GitHub Universe intro yday and the frequency of AI getting mentioned exhausted my ears immediately and I had to shut down the stream and go do something useful. For health reasons.

The next #curl release is coming in 8 days

https://curl.se/dev/release-notes.html

Thirteen years ago I found "a bad babe" in Windows

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/10/28/whos-0xabadbabe-and-why/

I bet you don't remember when #wget briefly considered switching to using #libcurl back in 2007.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2007/10/27/wget-going-libcurl/

@troed https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/09/14/the-curl-and-wget-war/

"#PHP RFC: Add persistent #curl share handles"

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/curl_share_persistence

The PR => https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/15603

On this day, nine years ago, I launched my sub-project "everything curl". A free book about #curl.

Today it contains 114.000 words in 1,056 separate sections.

https://everything.curl.dev/

#curl 8.10.1

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/18/curl-8-10-1/

48 hours until #curl 8.10.1

At least another 19 bugfixes...

I'm also good at "hot takes" on #linkedin 🤠

The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists of more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++

For just decoding an image format.

Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/pull/1064

I will run a #curl webinar on Thursday.

"mastering the curl command line"

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/02/webinar-mastering-the-curl-command-line/

https://www.twitch.tv/curlhacker starts now

Beware, there is an ongoing spambot attack in #GitHub issues in several projects were random people suggest "the fix" is to download a random file from mediafire.com. Like this:

#trurl 0.15 is here: https://github.com/curl/trurl/releases/tag/trurl-0.15

Live-streamed video presentation about this release at 08:00 UTC over at https://www.twitch.tv/curlhacker

In my honest opinion it is actually more like this: