Where DOESN’T curl run (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

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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1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Socket (00:00:38)

https://socket.dev/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=changelog-interviews

3. Birthdays & Friends (00:04:19)

4. HTTP 3 (00:09:12)

5. IPv6 (00:12:17)

6. TLS 1.3 (00:19:14)

7. The I in LLM... (00:21:48)

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-for-intelligence/

8. Kind, open & friendly (00:29:46)

9. Sponsor: Neon (00:39:40)

https://neon.tech/enterprise

10. What makes you do this? (00:45:29)

11. On being replaced (00:47:01)

12. Financial independence (00:51:22)

13. Total World Domination (00:54:04)

14. tiny-curl (00:56:48)

https://curl.se/tiny/

15. Selling support (00:59:26)

16. Keeping up with the world (01:02:54)

17. Sponsor: Sentry (01:05:44)

https://sentry.io/

18. State of the internet (01:09:19)

19. On ActivityPub (01:12:32)

20. On Fediverse (01:13:26)

21. Apple vs the EU (01:23:57)

22. A can of curl worms (01:25:11)

23. Attestations (01:32:36)

24. trurl (01:36:36)

https://github.com/curl/trurl

25. Bye friends! (01:40:05)

26. Coming up next (01:40:17)