{"id":29690,"date":"2026-04-30T08:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=29690"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:49:47","slug":"inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/inspired\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69f3226f9ef7a&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69f3226f9ef7a\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Daniel-dedication.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29713\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The picture was taken by mr Nasser and shared on social media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In appendix A of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@hnasr\/my-new-book-root-cause-5e7b9563888a\">Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs<\/a>, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish engineer and the creator of curl (cURL), one of the most widely used tools and libraries for fetching content over various protocols. I&#8217;ve always admired Daniel&#8217;s work, reading his blogs and watching his talks on YouTube. He is one of the engineers who inspired me to start my own YouTube channel and teach backend engineering.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It warms my heart to read this. Words like this give me energy and motivation. My work has meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me: Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish engineer and the creator of curl (cURL), one of the most widely used tools and libraries for fetching content over various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/inspired\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inspired<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[422,33],"class_list":["post-29690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curl","tag-books","tag-curl-and-libcurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29715,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29690\/revisions\/29715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}