{"id":14886,"date":"2020-10-19T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=14886"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:08:27","slug":"three-years-since-the-polhem-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/three-years-since-the-polhem-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Three years since the Polhem prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, exactly three years ago, I received flowers, money and a gold medal<\/strong> at a grand prize ceremony<\/a> that will forever live on in my mind and memory. I was awarded the Polhem Prize<\/a> for my decades of work on curl. The prize itself was handed over to me by no one else than the Swedish king himself. One of the absolute top honors I can imagine in my little home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some aspects, my life is divided into the life before this event and the life after. The prize has even made little me being presented on a poster in the Technical Museum in Stockholm. The medal itself still sits on my work desk and if I just stop starring at my monitors for a moment and glance a little over to the left – I can see it. I think the prize made my surroundings, my family and friends get a slightly different view and realization of what I actually do all these hours in front of my screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the tree years since I received the prize, we’ve increased the total number of contributors and authors in curl by 50%. We’ve done over 3,700 commits and 25 releases since then. Upwards and onward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life moved on. It was not “peak curl”. There was no “prize curse” that left us unable to keep up the pace and development. It was possibly a “peak life moment” there for me personally. As an open source maintainer, I can’t imagine many bigger honors or awards to come my way ever again, but I’m not complaining. I got the prize and I still smile when I think about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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