Most of us use curl daily without thinking about it. In our new video, we learn how Daniel Stenberg first got involved in programming and became the lead maintainer of curl.
The story starts simpler than you might expect: an IRC bot built in the early 1990s to help manage some channels. That path led Daniel into maintaining an HTTP download tool that became curl, then libcurl, the shift that made it easy to embed internet transfer capabilities into everything from CLIs to products and platforms.
We also talked about how AI-generated bug reports recently overwhelmed the project’s bug bounty program.. a real and growing challenge for open source maintainers.
Thanks to Daniel Stenberg for talking with us and sharing the curl story!
