Curl is just the hobby

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Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think.

curl is just the hobby of some guy that has no business providing a service to a billion people

This quote is from a comment by an upset user on my blog, replying to one of my previous articles about curl.

Fact check: while curl is my hobby, I also work on curl as a full-time job. It is a business and I serve and communicate with many customers on a daily basis. curl provides service to way more than a billion people. I claim that every human being on the planet that is Internet-connected uses devices or services every day that run curl.

The pattern

curl in San Francisco

Meanwhile, another “curl craft” seen in the wild recently is this ad in San Francisco (photo by diego).

The full command line looks like:

curl --request PUT 
  --url https://api.stytch.com/v1/b2b/organizations/{ID} 
  -d '{
        "mfa_policy": "REQUIRED_FOR_ALL",
        "mfa_methods": "RESTRICTED",
        "allowed_mfa_methods": ["totp", "sms_otp"]       }'

I would personally perhaps protest against the use of PUT for POSTing JSON, but nobody asked me.