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Uncurled

Personal blog · un.curl.devprogrammingcareer

Uncurled is a personal blog at un.curl.dev about programming and career. Since 2022, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2022

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Why HN links it

Uncurled is Daniel Stenberg's online book about curl, read from the intro onward. Commenters point to its story and money chapters and call it a great resource for open source maintainers.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

everything I know and learned about running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades

Most-linked posts?

  1. Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-05-01

What Hacker News says?

  1. Daniel Stenberg, the lead maintainer of cURL, has some interesting tweets about this topic. In fact several of the toxic comments he posts are from people who seem to lack a basic understanding of what the project even provides. https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1561459354431275009 https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1535188747427405824 Just to provide some counterbalance there's also this: https://twitter.com/bagder/…

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    on “Fix it, Fork it, Fuck off (2019)”
  2. Submitted Uncurled – running and maintaining Open Source projects for three decades as a story · 128 points

    HN discussion
  3. andrybak · 2025-11-26Recommends
    "Uncurled" by Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of curl, is a great resource for FOSS maintainers as well: https://un.curl.dev/

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    on “What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project”
  4. Submitted How to Stay Sane (2023) as a story · 67 points

    HN discussion
  5. https://un.curl.dev/intro Book starts here

    Comment linking /intro

    on “Uncurled”
  6. Submitted The Story of Curl as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  7. Start from the top: https://un.curl.dev/ Some more discussion in the last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34981518

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    on “The Story of Curl”
  8. Submitted Uncurled as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. You can read it in the words of Daniel Stenberg himself: https://un.curl.dev/money

    Comment linking /money

    on “Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden”
  10. Submitted Days are 24 hours for all of us as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. To start reading, go here: https://un.curl.dev/

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    on “Uncurled: A book by Daniel Stenberg, creator of curl”

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