{"id":12794,"date":"2019-10-15T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:09:16","slug":"me-curl-and-dagens-nyheter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2019\/10\/15\/me-curl-and-dagens-nyheter\/","title":{"rendered":"Me, curl and Dagens Nyheter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the afternoon of October 1st 2019, I had the pleasure of welcoming Linus Larsson and Jonas Lindkvist into my home in Huddinge, south of Stockholm, Sweden. My home is also my office as I work full-time from home. These two fine gentlemen work for Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, Dagens Nyheter<\/a>, which boasts 850,000 daily readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonas took what felt like a hundred photos of me, most of them when I sit in my office chair at my regular desk where my primary development computers and environment are. As you can see in the two photos on this blog post. I will admit that I did minimize most of my regular Windows from the screens to that I wouldn’t accidentally reveal something personal or sensitive, but on the plus side is that if you pay close attention you can see my Simon St\u00e5lenhag<\/a> desktop backgrounds better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me and Linus then sat down and talked. We talked about my background, how curl was created and how it has “taken off” to an extent I of course could never even dream about. Today, I estimate that curl runs in perhaps ten billion<\/em> installations. A truly mind boggling – and humbling – number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The interview\/chat lasted for about an hour or so. I figured we had touched most relevant areas and Linus seemed content with the material and input he’d gotten from me. As this topic and article wasn’t really time sensitive or something that would have to be timed with something particular Linus explained that he didn’t know exactly when it would get published and it didn’t bother me. I figured it would be cool whenever!<\/p>\n\n\n

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On the morning of October 14 I collected the paper from my mailbox (because yes, I still do have a paper version newspaper arriving at my home every morning) and boom, I spotted an interesting little note in the lower right hand corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see the (Swedish-speaking) front-page blurb on the photo on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V\u00e4rldens st\u00f6rsta programmerare du aldrig h\u00f6rt talas om<\/a> (links to the dn.se site for the Swedish article, possibly behind a paywall)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interesting timing this morning made it out so that this was the same morning I delivered a keynote at Castor Software Days<\/a> at KTH in Stockholm titled “curl, a hobby project that conquered the world” (slides<\/a>) – which by the way was received very well and I got a lot of positive comments and interesting conversations afterwards. And lots of people of course noticed the interestingly timed coincidence with the DN article!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daniel in front of an audience at KTH, Stockholm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The DN article reaches out to “ordinary” people in ways I’m not used to, so of course this made more of my non-techie friends suddenly realize a little more of what I do. I think it captures my “journey” and my approach to life and curl fairly well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll probably extend this blog post with links\/photos of the actual DN articles at a later point once I feel I don’t risk undermining DN’s business by doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(photos by Jonas Lindkvist, Dagens Nyheter, used in the online article about me)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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