High-Quality Chaos 🔗
As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the c [...]
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Don’t trust, verify 🔗
Software and digital security should rely on verification, rather than trust. I want to strongly encourage more users and consumers of software to ver [...]
One hundred weirdo emails 🔗
I hope I don’t have to spell it out but I will do it anyway: in these cases I don’t know anything about their products and I cannot help them. Quite o [...]
NTLM and SMB go opt-in 🔗
The NTLM authentication method was always a beast. It is a proprietary protocol designed by Microsoft which was reverse engineered a long time ago. Th [...]
bye bye RTMP 🔗
In May 2010 we merged support for the RTMP protocol suite into curl, in our desire to support the world’s internet transfer protocols. RTMP The protoc [...]
One hundred curl graphs 🔗
In the spring of 2020 I decided to finally do something about the lack of visualizations for how the curl project is performing, development wise. How [...]
chicken nuget 🔗
Background: nuget.org is a Microsoft owned and run service that allows users to package software and upload it to nuget so that other users can downlo [...]
curl 8.19.0 🔗
Release presentation Numbers the 273rd release8 changes63 days (total: 10,712)264 bugfixes (total: 13,640)538 commits (total: 38,024)0 new public libc [...]
Dependency tracking is hard 🔗
curl and libcurl are written in C. Rather low level components present in many software systems. They are typically not part of any ecosystem at all. [...]
10K curl downloads per year 🔗
The Linux Foundation, the organization that we want to love but that so often makes that a hard bargain, has created something they call “Insights” wh [...]