On this day seven years ago I got A FRICKING GOLD MEDAL for my work on #curl. Real. Proper. Gold. From the hands of the Swedish king.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20/my-night-at-the-museum/

My night at the museum | daniel.haxx.se

@bagder well thats pretty goddamned awesome!
@Viss one of those once in a life-time things that sticks...
@bagder is it cooler that "the king gave you a medal" or that you have live code running on other planets? :D
@Viss they're hard to compare as they are so different. I just enjoy them both immensely.
@bagder they are both pretty glorious life achievements :D
@bagder This is tremendous. Great tie too
@bagder It is well deserved. Still, most open source maintainers won't get such gratitudes, even if they deserve just as well.
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Great that your king is so clueful, too.

@bagder Thank you for creating something that I use dozens-to-hundreds of times each day in scripted format, command-line format, and hidden-in-other-tools format!

I couldn't do what I do without #curl

Again, thank you! And congratulations!

@bagder and what a well deserved medal!

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Very cool.

Did you bite the medal? I would have bitten the medal.

@bagder Well deserved, curl is one of the most important and influential software tools ever created.

TIL Sweden has a king πŸ€”

@bagder Besides the obligatory congratulations on this very special honour, I also want to congratulate you on the wonderful choice of shirt colour!

Looks good!

@bagder as many of your followers I didn't know about that deserved recognition.

But I also came noting something:

> My eleven year old son truly appreciates this museum so we ...

So that kid is not longer a kid, but a grown person!

I'm pretty sure they is proud of their dad!

@bagder I would say it is well deserved as I can’t imagine a day without curl. (Honestly, I use it every day…)

@bagder Public appreciation for Free Software is such a rare thing. I am glad you received it at least once. Too few people realize that #curl practically runs the Internet – much like Apache & nginx, but on the client side.

There should be more #ILoveFreeSoftware days, medals, and other forms of appreciation.

@bagder can he hug or is he one of those guys who hit you in the back repeatedly just to let everyone know they are heterosexual?
@bagder you definitely deserve it, you're a legend