17 Years of curl (The Changelog #153)

Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.

Daniel Stenberg joined the show to talk about curl and libcurl and how he has spent at least 2 hours every day for the past 17 years working on and maintaining curl. That’s over 13k hours! We covered the origins of curl, how he chooses projects to work on, why he has remained so dedicated to curl all these years, the various version control systems curl has used, licensing, and more.

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Featuring

Daniel Stenberg – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub

Notes and Links

We talk through the past 17 years of this staple tool to the community and hear what Daniel has learned on his journey.

Follow Daniel on Twitter
daniel.haxx.se
Daniel Stenberg on YouTube
curl and libcurl
curl on the NASDAQ tower
curl, 17 years old today
curl - Changes
curl - Companies Using curl
curl - Man page
curl - THANKS
Make a Donation to the curl Project
The commit that started it all – bagder/curl
Listen to the teaser for this episode to learn about a “magic feature” of curl that’s been there for over 6 years
Richard Stallman’s Personal Page
Richard Stallman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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