Probably old news but my mind is always blown by all the stuff #curl can do. I had zero idea that curl has a —form argument that lets you simulate filling out a form, complete with a file upload. Let me automate a super annoying task for a friend with a dead simple bash script.
Probably old news but my mind is always blown by all the stuff #curl can do. I had zero idea that curl has a —form argument that lets you simulate filling out a form, complete with a file upload. Let me automate a super annoying task for a friend with a dead simple bash script.
We are thirteen days from next #curl release.
At 349 merged bugfixes and five(!) pending CVE announcements.
By 62 contributors out of which 30 are commit authors.
I ordered 6,000 new #curl stickers.
There's also an curl-rustls Arch Linux package that dynamically links to rustls instead of openssl, however #curl still considers this experimental:
Microsoft: „1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code“
That would mean @bagder
rewriting 5 #curl projects into Rust in a month.
Microsoft revising the „rewrite over a weekend“ meme to it actually taking them 6 days. For a person they have not hired yet. With tools they still have to invent.
If you are a MS customer, you‘d better start putting more money into Copilot right away!
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/microsoft_rust_codebase_migration/
Microsoft: „1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code“
That would mean @bagder
rewriting 5 #curl projects into Rust in a month.
Microsoft revising the „rewrite over a weekend“ meme to it actually taking them 6 days. For a person they have not hired yet. With tools they still have to invent.
If you are a MS customer, you‘d better start putting more money into Copilot right away!
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/24/microsoft_rust_codebase_migration/
If you have ideas for a new #curl sticker design, let me know. I'm about to order a new batch soon.
Logo images to play with: https://curl.se/logo/
Basically the only way to get #curl stickers (without printing your own set) is to approach me when I show up somewhere to talk.
The next big chance is at #FOSDEM where I usually give away **thousands** of curl stickers.
It is always fine to pick a few extra to hand out to your friends and grandparents.
1. User complains to #hackerone that I named his *previous* name when he renamed himself to a silly name after I banned them in a #curl report filed back in October.
2. Hackerone asks me to respond on their support forum, on which I have no account. Grrr. I refuse to.
3. Replying to the hackerone email about this instead, I get a bounce saying they don't accept emails on support@hackerone ...
Kill me now.
Joshua Rogers on his bug bounty experiences in 2025.
Positive for #curl, kafka-esque for all others mentioned. ‚BugCrowd‘ seems to a typical level-1 support company living on denials.
(Joshua also reported on Apache and pbly other projects where he could talk to the maintainers. I take #curl here as an example for FOSS projects interested in actually securing things.)
Joshua Rogers on his bug bounty experiences in 2025.
Positive for #curl, kafka-esque for all others mentioned. ‚BugCrowd‘ seems to a typical level-1 support company living on denials.
(Joshua also reported on Apache and pbly other projects where he could talk to the maintainers. I take #curl here as an example for FOSS projects interested in actually securing things.)
I added a sentence to the #curl hackerone submission page:
"Please present your case briefly and to the point. Do not use an AI to help you blab hundreds of lines that will exhaust us to death instead of making us understand your claim."
We end the year with 6 more #curl command line options than we had last new year's eve; now at 273 in total.
Santa can keep the toys…
What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.
@EUCommission then please throw as much money as possible at any open source project that is working on the #fediverse or is somehow a part of it like #curl #postgresql #mariadb and all the other ones!
This is a notification I get when someone signs up and donates money to the #curl project via Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/curl
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