curl is just the hobby

Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think. As a cross-stitch As a pillow This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to one … Continue reading curl is just the hobby →

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@bagder truly incredible what a bad take machine that site is. And they all think they're so very clever...
@bagder curl my beloved but also detested (i love getting random curl requests from dimwits trying to breach my literal static html nginx server)
@bagder the best thing about that silly comment is that they expect you to see the White House say that C is insecure and then like... rewrite curl over the weekend in Rust?
@willhbr @bagder i mean, obviously???????? /s

@bagder

First up, thanks for your hard work on curl.

Second, I’m going lean into PUT being at least as appropriate as POST on that ad.

😉

@bagder PUT is WevDAV specific no? Generally we use POST for this sort of thing.
@unsaturated PUT is plain old HTTP
@bagder so it is! Back in the day when I was still familiar with HTTP, I seem to recall that we considered it exotic and mostly used only for e.g. WebDAV but yeah it’s apparently just HTTP. Seems like a method people would often misuse
@bagder And in particular to companies who have perfect capacity to pay the developer.

@bagder

#curl
FFS, let say we go beyond the immense nonsense and factually wrongness of the sentence... But wow, it's its own league of WTF and entitlement...

Let's use that to advertise the good work of Hoffmann / Nagle / Zhou about the economic value of open source : https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

And thanks for sharing, it's such a great flag to rally people around the absurdity of considering maintainers of our IT world as hobbyists (given like an insult). Cc @ariadne who ranted about that recently for a Linux conf (https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/112273066215358639)

I'll introduce myself enough to say that I've been working on a Linux distro for 30 years. #curl is part of the core of this one and most others. There should be a curl flag to unfurl. Hm. Add a "--flag" switch.

One thing that curl needed was wcurl. wget is nice enough you bet. For decades both I did vet. They're fraternal twins, I see, born in 1996, the years doesn't sticks, it can't be 28 years, I have socks5 older than that. But now with wcurl there is no excuse for anybody not to give curl a whirl.
@bagder @schrottkatze Is there a page for all fan art you got over the years?
@fink @schrottkatze I think this is the best I have, but I don't think it is "complete" in any way: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/07/curl-pictures/
curl pictures | daniel.haxx.se

@bagder Like Linux! Won't be big and serious 😉
@bagder Yeah, that "curl" guy needs to find a real job. 😂

@bagder

I use curl every day, thanks Daniel.

@bagder I've just read about what you have to endure with AI Slop [1], [2].

Just came to say: Don't give up and don't loose your motivation!

[1]: https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d1cd
[2]: https://hackerone.com/reports/2199174

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