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Daniel Stenberg and the home of curl in Stockholm, Sweden

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Daniel’s a true legend in the community. If only we all could make something even 1% as useful as curl, the world would be a better place!

Thanks Daniel!

Edit: my comment is not intended to disparage the rest of us. Clearly there is an element of luck to making something tremendously useful. That being said, Daniel is an amazing steward of a useful tool. Sometimes the job can seem pretty thankless for him (cough Apple) so I wanted to thank him!

You often can't know in advance what will be useful and what won't.

You can often know what will be useless tho

Rust is still popular ... so I wouldn't trust at least my future prediction skills.

This is getting downvoted but that's a neat self-deprecation joke!

> I have thought about a HDMI/keyboard switch to allow me more easily switch between my different spare computers into the left “backup screen” to make it a lesser hassle to alter between those machines, but I haven’t yet decided nor found a product that would be suitable.

Personally I love the Level 1 KVMs but they only do DisplayPort now.

https://store.level1techs.com/search?q=kvm

I have this 2 monitor 2 PC one https://store.level1techs.com/products/14-kvm-switch-dual-mo...

Still the KVM market is “all over the space” both in available configs and actual build quality too.

It would be extremely niche but an open source modular KVM is a dream of mine.

Holy shit, that's exactly what I was looking for last month... As a two screens user, could not find one that supported Display Ports.

I'm hoping to chain it to a dock station so I can easily switch between a laptop and a desktop, using the same monitors/ peripherals.

$299 for a two PC, single monitor kvm? Expensive.

Actually not - it's capable of 120hz @ 4k. Your typical chinesium $49 amazon KVM won't do that.

I work from home and every day I switch my cables to my work computer which takes 10 seconds. I don't want to pay $300 to shave 20 seconds off of my day.

You only say that because you are not monetizing your 20 seconds! (It is a joke)

How many days have you left?

Pretty chaotic for my taste! I find that having clutter on my desktop distracts me and makes me feel uneasy. I'm wondering what the difference between Daniel and me is. Could it just be a personality trait?

I too like a clean desk. But a clean desk doesn't stay that for long. So all clean desk lovers like me tend to have a cluttered desk.

The clean desks you see in pictures are obviously staged, or maybe people are really able to do serious work without ever putting a pen, or a cable, or a phone, or a mug on, sooner or later.

It's like doing the dishes. One of the things I hate the most in life, because you clean stuff so you can dirty it later. A clean desk is one that nobody uses, while your favourite cup is always in the washer.

Right, it's a constant process of getting messy and cleaning it up again. Speaking of which, brb ... cleaning my desk now haha. But the main difference is: I have my keyboard, mouse, closed macbook, a plant, and a big curved ultra-wide monitor on my desk. The rest is temporary clutter. Daniels desk however is full of "full-time tenants". I guess that's the difference.

Well, you’re a CTO (going by your handle) and Daniel is an open source engineer, so I’d say personally probably has something to do with it.

Steve Jobs was even a CEO and known for no-nonsense taste, but look what his desk looked like:

https://www.pinterest.ch/pin/305048574748887722/

There's a working desk, and there's the work that's being produced there. They don't have to have the same amount of structure.

I was referring to the personality question, not desk tidiness.

How is my job my personality? Lol ... I do code a lot in my free time, started coding at 14 years old and I contribute to open source as well. Pretty closed minded thinking to be honest.

I didn’t say your job is your personality, don’t be so melodramatic.

The fact that you took offense to my post rather than seeing it as a benign observation says a lot more about you than it does me.

You tried to project your expectations onto me and I corrected you. No drama nor offence taken here.

I immediately recognised the Cambridge Audio subwoofer under the desk. I had the same set on my PC from about 1998-1999 along with an Aureal Vortex. I loved that setup.

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NjgzWDEwMjQ=/z/djQAAOSwtgNeUSYW/$...

His HW configuration is very similar to mine. One linux desktop, one laptop, one Mac Mini. Interesting.

But where's your Commodore 64, Bagder? We know it's hiding somewhere.

That made me check if he really has a C64 port. No, not yet https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/11/25/89-operating-systems/

Is curl the single most widely ported piece of software? I could imagine that being the case.

I guess that would be Doom.

Really nice article. Curious, are there more folks running Debian Unstable as daily driver?

It’s not uncommon for people who like Debian overall but want to be less out-of-date.

KDE ? Simon Stålenhag wallpapers ?

Hmmmm :).

It says the desk is homemade, but it looks like a standard Ikea desk

IKEA was originally a Swedish company and still does their design in Sweden, so perhaps it’s not surprising that a homemade Swedish desk looks a lot like an IKEA desk.

IKEA doesn't have a 3 meter desk last time I checked. I'm guessing he bought a 3 meter wood counter top and screwed IKEA desk legs to it. That's what I did at least.

Both Daniel and Ikea are Swedish, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Daniel makes Ikea desks himself.

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