glibc has this open bug to resolve link-local host names for AF_INET6 since 2012

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14413

Now this causes problems to #curl, as it now does separate name resolves for IPv4 and IPv6 in order to start connecting once the first response is in. 😕

https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/22330

You don't see people from the frontier models brag about how many vulnerabilities they FIXED, only how many they FOUND.

The kids are alright. From an email I received today:

I am writing to express my huge appreciation for your incredible work and dedication to maintaining curl—one of the most essential building blocks of the modern internet.

I am a 16-year-old IT student from Poland. Inside my home server laboratory, your tool is a vital part of my daily life. Whether I am writing backend web tools, integrating APIs, or creating system automation scripts, curl is always the absolute backbone of my setups.

The current top story on the FT Magazine is pay-walled but features some mentions of #curl and yours truly... (the picture shows the start of it)

https://www.ft.com/content/cec8df9e-b43b-4cd1-8feb-c07e804e8d33

The biggest selling Danish game ever, 007: First Light, uses #libcurl.

Bliss in progress. #curl maintainer on a beach.

my week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2026-July/000161.html

post-release, bliss, graphs, website, NTLM, wcurl

"Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo. Yes, a real physical disc you can hold in your hands, no download required."

Here's the form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR6G-c11n8yFDlQmk4B-QjDxUQkdTTjZLU0EyTFFRV1E3NVRTVTRTWjRHMy4u&route=shorturl

"You're a commercial user of libcurl who use it for free and you ask a volunteer to fix your problem on his spare time?"

Sometimes I need to say it.