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I write curl. I don't know anything.

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2026-01-14 07:55:58 UTC

When I find myself working in a big pile of metaphorical manure, I can always bring out this email I received on this day, nine years ago...
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/892/374/419/605/570/original/8dc5315a37117d68.png

2025-10-30 19:31:01 UTC

I just learned TIOBE has a "quality indicator" and #curl is ranked D out of an A to F scale where A is best.
No further comments on that.
https://ticsdemo.tiobe.com/tiobeweb/DEMO/TqiDashboard.html#axes=Project(curl),Sub()&metric=tqi

2025-09-19 11:56:45 UTC

"Sorry, I can't. Under the current administration I don't feel safe and comfortable with traveling to the US so I need to pass. Thanks for asking."

2025-09-02 10:11:02 UTC

Some graphs are simpler
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/134/156/834/976/356/original/e95e7ce0cf94c16c.png

2025-08-23 20:50:24 UTC

"Hey,
Thank you for creating curl, here's a photo of my cat for no reason"
#inbox

2025-08-18 06:37:09 UTC

Meanwhile, if you abuse the API and don't comply, asan might complain but that's not a #curl security problem.
https://hackerone.com/reports/3302518

2025-08-10 22:09:45 UTC

I learned about this book from [@molly0xfff](https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff )
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/006/749/287/641/108/original/20503bb993e97a25.png

2025-08-07 07:34:49 UTC

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I still think the messaging of this is alarmist and quite frankly, lame. Recall how we also have had multiple bad implementation details in HTTP/2, some that aren't even really possible to fix there so some people recommend h3 instead. Which then has its own share of challenges.
They're all far from simple. They are all complicated.

2025-08-06 14:25:24 UTC

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context: https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8

2025-07-28 07:49:34 UTC

In 2002 my laptop had 96 MB ram
In 2025 my laptop has 96 GB ram
Roughly doubled every other year. There should be a law describing this.

2025-07-28 06:40:56 UTC

Hello Sprout. Some words on my new laptop. Crowd-funded.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/28/hello-sprout/

2025-07-15 09:01:40 UTC

Distributed denial of service slop attacks (DDoSSA)
I have this work in progress slide for a talk I might do soon
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/856/430/333/912/346/original/1431e253a3dcfebd.jpg

2025-07-09 06:57:25 UTC

"Arbitrary File Read via file:// Protocol in cURL"
Well, you see... 🤦‍♂️

2025-06-02 07:05:56 UTC

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I explained (to GitHub) that I want it visible in the UI when done "over MCP" because transparency cannot be bad for this IMHO.

2025-04-30 07:31:34 UTC

I don't have the "adoption date" of #curl into other distros, so if you can dig out some I'd be happy to take notes!

2025-03-10 22:43:10 UTC

We got another "critical vulnerability" on #curl reported. I figured you might enjoy it.
"The authentication mechanism in cURL does not properly restrict the number of failed authentication attempts, allowing an attacker to brute-force credentials"
Yawn. Away, away you go.

2025-02-10 10:12:08 UTC

Yikes, the percent output when doing >81 petabytes parallel transfers with #curl would display wrongly.
Presumably not too many users saw this.

2024-12-13 10:18:08 UTC

25 years later, #curl is now at 0 sscanf calls - and we do not allow new ones to get added
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/644/994/685/052/075/original/7617186197a92ddb.png

2024-11-25 11:06:28 UTC

I enjoy my slowember. But I do keep an eye on you all, so behave!