“Memes” or other fun images involving curl. Please send or direct me to other ones you think belong in this collection! Kept here solely to boost my ego.
All modern digital infrastructure
This is the famous xkcd strip number 2347, modified to say Sweden and 1997 by @tsjost. I’ve seen this picture taking some “extra rounds” in various places, somehow also being claimed to be xkcd 2347 when people haven’t paid attention to the “patch” in the text.
Entire web infrastructure
Image by @matthiasendler
Car contract
This photo of a rental car contract with an error message on the printed paper was given to me by a good person I’ve unfortunately lost track of.
The developer dice
Thanks to Cassidy. (For purchase here.)
Don’t use -X
Remember that using curl -X is very often just the wrong thing to do. Jonas Forsberg helps us remember:
The curl
In an email from NASA that I received and shared, the person asked about details for “the curl”.
Image by eichkat3r at mastodon.
You’re sure this is safe?
Piping curl output straight into a shell is a much debated practice…
Picture by Tim Chase.
curl, reinvented by…
Remember the powershell curl alias?
Picture by Shashimal Senarath.
Billboard
This is an old classic:
curl please
