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

If there is *any* area that #curl is not best-in-class, we should put in more work and improve curl in that area. While at the same time keep up and polish it in all other aspects.

This is what drives me. This is what I want.

Ten years ago I explained why #curl defaults to stdout:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/11/17/why-curl-defaults-to-stdout/

"Subject: ISSUES USING CISCO ANYCONNECT SECURE MOBILITY CLIENT VPN"

my #inbox and Cisco Anyconnect has a special relationship. Obviously.

The two other persons CC'ed in the email are the two founders of the SSLeay project (which became OpenSSL in 1998). They must also be thrilled to get this email.

Four years ago I finally got my US visa after a hilariously silly and slow process. And I have still to go there...

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days/

Remember Uncurled, my little ebook about running Open Source projects?

I switched infra behind it and now I host the thing myself. Still available on the same good old URL:

https://un.curl.dev/

Daniel's weekly report November 8, 2024

https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2024-November/000089.html

release. rock-solid, fosdem, talks, curl -v google.com, podcasts, uncurled, security, polhem prize

Is there anyone else getting these emails from some researcher asking me to do work for them?

"We are conducting a research study on memory leaks in real-world applications and would like to recreate the memory leak issue you addressed in your pull request." ... "We would be grateful if you could share any test cases, additional context, and insights to help us accurately reproduce the memory leak you addressed in your PR." ...

I have received three of them so far.

Rock-solid #curl: long-term support releases

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/07/rock-solid-curl/

@asier I once tried to explain it all in a single slide like this...

@tek_dmn @asier oh yes, good point!

@tek_dmn @asier

Let me introduce you to my new friend #curl 8.11.0

One vulnerability fixed, five changes, 266 bugfixes.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/06/curl-8-11-0/

Waking up to a new day and running the video a few more times just for the giggles. It is just so amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw

Hey,

#curl -v https://google.com as a metal song is a must see and hear experience. A masterpiece. I just love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3hw

I now get to argue with a user who insists he found a security problem in curl because

curl_mfprintf(stdout, "%x %x %x %x");

reads bad memory.

Never a dull moment.

I will admit that adding this function to the library API was a bad idea, but that's a decision we are stuck with through the decades since we don't break the ABI

@jwildeboer it's an old wisdom that you never get the real feedback until you do a release...

@kees @hikhvar @dascandy I'm excited to see how the kernel version looks