Curl is just the hobby
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Curl is just the hobby
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Re: Curl is just the hobby
#2> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis.
While it's not my business, I still wonder how this business looks like. Is curl sponsored? If so, is this a common thing for foundational tools alike?
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#3> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis. While it's not my business, I still wonder how this business looks like. Is curl sponsored? If so, is this a common thing for foundational tools alike?
From Daniel's contact page:
> Just don’t send me private emails about the open source projects I participate in – unless you want to pay for commercial and private support!
So it's support basically, I suppose.
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#4> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis. While it's not my business, I still wonder how this business looks like. Is curl sponsored? If so, is this a common thing for foundational tools alike?
If you look around, you'll see the sponsors page: https://curl.se/sponsors.html
Some sponsorship is through opencollective, which includes transparent information about donations: https://opencollective.com/curl#category-BUDGET
So opencollective has it at $280k USD since sometime in 2018, not bad, that's like half of what the average Googler makes in 1 year (except spread over 5 years).
You can also see there hadn't been many big single donations in 2020 from this post: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/01/03/curl-receives-10k-usd...
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#5> while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis. While it's not my business, I still wonder how this business looks like. Is curl sponsored? If so, is this a common thing for foundational tools alike?
He probably still works for WolfSSL [1], who I think lets him work on Curl full time.
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#6Off topic but I find it wild that SF has API ads on bus shelters. Is that unusual/right in a dev hotspot, or have I been well underestimating just how intrinsic the tech culture is there? (I’m an Australian, so I guess my question applies to the US as much as SF)
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#7Off topic but I find it wild that SF has API ads on bus shelters. Is that unusual/right in a dev hotspot, or have I been well underestimating just how intrinsic the tech culture is there? (I’m an Australian, so I guess my question applies to the US as much as SF)
The same thing stroke me, I assumed it is specific to an area where there are many software engineers.
I think people mostly don't know about Curl and PUT requests, it probably would be a huge waste of money to advertize like this in the wild. Not that I don't think ads are a huge waste in general.
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#8> I would personally perhaps protest against the use of PUT for POSTing JSON, but nobody asked me.
Just wondering, if the resource ID is known, I thought PUT is the recommended method? We usually use POST for creating a new resource for which you don't know an ID yet.
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#9Off topic but I find it wild that SF has API ads on bus shelters. Is that unusual/right in a dev hotspot, or have I been well underestimating just how intrinsic the tech culture is there? (I’m an Australian, so I guess my question applies to the US as much as SF)
When in an Uber from the airport in San Francisco, I remember seeing a giant billboard for Twilio. I had a similar reaction.
Re: Curl is just the hobby
#10Off topic but I find it wild that SF has API ads on bus shelters. Is that unusual/right in a dev hotspot, or have I been well underestimating just how intrinsic the tech culture is there? (I’m an Australian, so I guess my question applies to the US as much as SF)
https://nitter.poast.org/JosephPolitano/status/1683476652276...
I guess it just makes sense sometimes to do weird targeted public ads in specific areas?