Post #1386601

2026-02-14 05:35 UTC

❤️ Thank you @bagder for maintaining #curl since 1998. What would we do without it, how long would it take us, and what code quality would those solutions have without you? Thank you so much! ❤️ ...and how on earth would people be able to check the weather forecast without curl? 😉 (Please join me in thanking Daniel, and let others here on the #Fediverse know about your favourite ways of using #curl )

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@kirschner@mastodon.social 2026-02-14 05:38

@bagder@mastodon.social Thanks also to @igor_chubin@mastodon.social for the work on https://wttr.in . ❤️ "weather" and "weather2" are aliases in my shell for curl https://wttr.in/berlin and curl v2.wttr.in/berlin .

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@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social 2026-02-14 06:43

@kirschner@mastodon.social @bagder@mastodon.social Absolute legend! Curl was and is always one of the first tools that goes on any machine I install. From the smallest RaspberryPis to the large BladeCenters (when hardware was still a thing 😜). Outstanding support from Daniel himself as well as his team and the curl community of developers.

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@nocci@punk.cyber77.de 2026-02-14 07:10

Thank you @bagder@mastodon.social - without your work everything wouldn't be so nice and easy. As someone working a lot with websites curl is a great tool to debug things. And as @maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social already mentioned: curl is everywhere - install things, maintain things and so much more. Thanks for your work. @kirschner@mastodon.social

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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-02-14 09:47

@kirschner@mastodon.social @bagder@mastodon.social I use `curl` as a basic part of the I/O of my post-scarcity #Lisp implementation. https://git.journeyman.cc/simon/post-scarcity/src/branch/master/src/io/io.c

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@mpotter@social.coop 2026-02-14 23:23

@kirschner@mastodon.social @bagder@mastodon.social I've used curl daily for years, for checking web servers and headers, downloading files and pulling IP information from sites like https://ipinfo.io/ . Just this week I used curl to access the Rackspace cloud files API for a mass file delete before their higher prices kicked in.

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@TheRandomWalk@theforkiverse.com 2026-02-15 10:23

@kirschner@mastodon.social @bagder@mastodon.social @mcladams@fosstodon.org I found this podcast quite elucidating: [Rust in Production: curl with Daniel Stenberg](https://corrode.dev/podcast/s02e01-curl/) And when i searched my #antennapod subscriptions, much came up but an interview from 2015 (a decade ago!!) caught my attention, now added to my queue: [The Changelog: 17 Years of curl (Interview)](https://changelog.com/podcast/153)

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