A human in control 🔗
There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allo [...]
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curl up 2026 summary 🔗
Getting curl developers and related enthusiasts into a single room to hang out in the real world for a whole weekend once a year is awesome. We find i [...]
The pressure 🔗
I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for ev [...]
named globs with curl 🔗
One of the established power features of the curl command line tool is its support for “globbing”. It is a built-in way to specify ranges and sets in [...]
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability 🔗
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously go [...]
Approaching zero bugs? 🔗
In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as [...]
Inspired 🔗
In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful word [...]
curl 8.20.0 🔗
You always find the new curl releases on the curl site! Release presentation Numbers the 274th release8 changes49 days (total: 10,761)282 bugfixes (to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]