--- title: Best cURL posts of 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted cURL posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/curl/best-of/2025 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/curl/best-of/2025 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best cURL posts of 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted cURL posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of cURL — 2025 1. 1 [](/posts/yes-really-curl-is-still-developed-fdrubx95u "Yes really, curl is still developed") Article daniel.haxx.se · 49w Yes really, curl is still developed curl's lead developer addresses the common misconception that the project is no longer actively developed. Despite maintaining a stable user interface for decades, curl is currently experiencing its highest development activity ever. The project continuously evolves to keep pace with changing internet standards, protocols, and security requirements while prioritizing backwards compatibility. The team refactors internal architecture regularly without breaking existing APIs or command-line interfaces, viewing this stability as curl's core strength. With nearly 30 years of history, the project is being developed with the mindset that it could remain relevant for another 70 years. 85 4 2. 2 [](/posts/20-000-issues-on-github-y7qlk5hm2 "20,000 issues on GitHub") Article daniel.haxx.se · 43w 20,000 issues on GitHub The curl project reached 20,000 issues on GitHub, marking significant growth in community engagement. After migrating from Sourceforge in 2015, the project has seen issue submission rates increase from 3.7 per day (2015-2022) to 9 per day (2022-2025). The project maintains efficiency by closing half of all issues within 6 hours and keeping open issues low despite rising submission frequency. 77 10 3. 3 [](/posts/how-i-do-it-m4xkt1lvj "How I do it") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y How I do it Daniel Stenberg, creator and maintainer of curl, shares his approach to leading one of the world's most widely used open source projects. He works 50-55 hours per week split between morning and evening sessions, driven by a sense of responsibility to billions of users and a commitment to making curl best-in-class in every aspect. His motivation comes from user feedback, the project's independence from corporate control, and a strong personal connection to the work. He emphasizes leading by example, maintaining low bureaucracy, and fostering a welcoming community while upholding high standards for code quality and documentation. 62 1 4. 4 [](/posts/car-brands-running-curl-skp8nntlb "car brands running curl") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y car brands running curl Curl now runs in cars from 47 major automotive brands including Tesla, BMW, Toyota, and Mercedes, representing several hundred million vehicles. Despite this widespread adoption in the automotive industry, none of these companies sponsor or financially support the curl project, highlighting challenges in open source sustainability where critical infrastructure is used freely without contributing back to its development. 56 8 5. 5 [](/posts/hello-sprout-u9l3lv1r3 "Hello Sprout") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y Hello Sprout Daniel Stenberg shares his experience with a new crowd-funded Framework laptop called 'Sprout', featuring AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 96GB RAM, and 4TB storage. The laptop was funded by donations exceeding $7,000 USD. He details the assembly process, Debian installation, initial software glitches with X11/Wayland, and performance benchmarks showing significant improvements in curl build times compared to his old ThinkPad. The modular Framework design allows interchangeable ports and upgradeable components. 47 2 6. 6 [](/posts/giants-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-x98ootwj2 "giants, standing on the shoulders of") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y giants, standing on the shoulders of Daniel Stenberg delivered a keynote at Open Source Summit Europe 2025 discussing how modern infrastructure relies heavily on open source projects and their maintainers, but these critical components may not be receiving optimal treatment or support. 37 2 7. 7 [](/posts/preparing-for-the-worst-jlyxlnyxs "preparing for the worst") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y preparing for the worst The curl project has developed formal incident response guidelines after conducting a tabletop exercise simulating a major security breach. The team recognized the need for documented procedures covering incident declaration, role assignments, communication protocols, and resolution processes to prepare for potential high-severity security events. 20 8. 8 [](/posts/sponsor-my-laptop--cy7rll8uv "Sponsor my laptop!") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y Sponsor my laptop! Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl, is seeking community funding for a new Framework laptop to replace his aging 2017 machine. For the first time, the curl fund will contribute to hardware costs, with a crowdfunding campaign targeting $1,000+ for upgrades. The laptop will be used for curl development, conference talks, and live streaming from curl meetings. Contributors of $200+ can customize laptop stickers, and regular curl sponsors will cover remaining costs if the campaign falls short. 19 9. 9 [](/posts/a-new-breed-of-analyzers-c8hkmveo2 "A new breed of analyzers") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y A new breed of analyzers Daniel Stenberg shares how AI-powered code analyzers discovered over 400 potential bugs in curl, including legitimate security vulnerabilities. Tools like Google's Big Sleep and ZeroPath identified issues that traditional analyzers missed by scanning all code paths without requiring builds. The curl team fixed approximately 50 bugs from the initial reports, with many more under review. These AI tools represent an evolutionary step in code analysis, finding memory leaks, protocol violations, and logic errors that existed undetected for years, though they don't fundamentally change the development process. 14 3 10. 10 [](/posts/literally-the-dumbest-thing-i-ve-ever-read-cmxxw4bvg "literally the dumbest thing I've ever read") Video Low Level Learning · 1y literally the dumbest thing I've ever read A security researcher submitted a fake vulnerability report claiming to have found a critical buffer overflow in curl's cookie parsing mechanism. The report was generated using AI and contained a proof-of-concept that didn't actually call any curl functions, instead triggering a basic C string overflow in their own test code. Daniel Stenberg, curl's maintainer, quickly identified the report as AI-generated nonsense and closed it as invalid. This incident highlights the growing problem of AI-generated spam in bug bounty programs, wasting maintainers' time with false vulnerability reports. 14 1 11. 11 [](/posts/detecting-malicious-unicode-gaq8hapyh "Detecting malicious Unicode") Article daniel.haxx.se · 1y Detecting malicious Unicode Curl contributor James Fuller demonstrated how subtle Unicode character replacements went unnoticed in a pull request, prompting concerns about code security. The issue highlighted the difficulty in visually detecting such changes and spurred the implementation of CI checks to validate UTF-8 sequences in the curl repository. 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