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@w_b @nerdette @bagder I am sure his Starlinks use it to communicate....

@bagder I’m glad that it brings you so much joy

@bagder curl has become a huge part of my web browsing experience.

@bagder I used curl today!

@bagder so funny, but *sigh* …it should've been "who", instead of "that" …because "some guy" is not an object, but a person(EDIT: citation needed) …it's still funny, though …solid B

@mjibrower @platymew the story about the pillow is here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22/curl-is-just-the-hobby/ - made by @LangerJan

@platymew @mjibrower consider: the informality of the quote is essential to its appeal, and so a minor grammatical error that doesn't obscure the meaning whatsoever enhances rather than detracts from it

@platymew @bagder “Who” would sound better, but a guy can be a that/it, can't he? Example:

– How did you know that wasn’t my girlfriend?
– It was a guy!

@platymew @bagder honestly I've never understood the rules of when you are allowed to use "that" as a relative pronoun and when you're required to use "who/which," after a lifetime speaking English

and the fact that a native speaker is unclear on the concept leads me to think these rules might be arbitrary and made-up, like rules against split infinitives and dangling prepositions

@bagder

lol, I was like, "Is that true?" So I looked it up and found you.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/20/curl-17-years-old-today/

@bagder idk why but I read this in the tune of Scrub by TLC

@bagder run this command to give Elmo 1 million dollars

curl "https://t3.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/02/42/90/360_F_2429020_mOGmog3ISSUV0FlHJJLqEk7VW2uHRx.jpg" -o ElmosMoney.jpg

@bagder
I don't wget it.

@bagder story from a previous job: some colleagues said "we don't want to use software that was developed by some guy in his attic, we need professional software"

me: *chuckling, thinking about curl*

colleague, sounding angry: yes you're laughing but that stuff really happens

I don't think he understood why I was laughing

@bagder but what a lovely throw pillow.

@bagder

Please tell me someone has made a bitmap font from that.

@bagder is it still fair just to call it a "hobby" ? (specifically in the case of curl)

@bagder The problem with curl is that it's not written in a memory safe language. It's time to port curl to COBOL.

@bagder I also think it's extremely inspirational for other opensource devs; the idea that the world is just that open that if you have a good idea and you can write it out in a solid secure and performant way, everyone will just flock to you, it's a magical thing to watch unfold every time some person or group comes up with some new opensource idea that ends up changing things radically across the landscape, or things that stay around for eternity because they do it right, like Curl, Linux, etc

@bagder I feel my job would be somewhat harder without curl so I thank you

@bagder curl merch store when??