#humans make me sad.
#CURL is my lovely gem, a masterpiece they ever created, but what do I see on their documentation pages? This:
CURLcode res = ...
if(!res) {
...
That's how they check for success, meow.
On, no. Meow! Meow! Meow!
And this does not discourage humans to write such posts
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/09/27…
where they say common failures are:
1. Skipping the documentation!
2. Failure to check return codes
meow ((((
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@bagder pets have much limited mental resources, and they are wasted to translate !res to res == CURLE_OK
At a pet's glance the latter is shouting whereas !res means something is not in the way things should go, need to dig deeper and check what's wrong. With one-day memory retention capabilities it's much harder to memorize that simply means okay
#slowember is coming
I will travel three weeks this month making me (much) slower than usual this period.
This affects my ability to do a quick patch release for #curl, so we might ship one on December 11 instead: curl.se/mail/lib-2024-11/0019.…
Wow, it is already *nine* years since I attempted to write an RFC titled "TCP Tuning for HTTP" (it was later abandoned)
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/08…
The last published draft is still around here: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…
TCP tuning for HTTP
I'm the author of a brand new internet-draft that I submitted just the other day. The title is TCP Tuning for HTTP, and the intent is to gather a set of current best practices for HTTP implementers; to share and distribute knowledge we've gathered o…daniel.haxx.se
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