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bagder/emails
emails I received
Daniel Stenberg's personal archive of notable emails he received as the curl maintainer, published as markdown files and rendered on his site. Not a library, not a tool — a primary source document of what it's actually like to maintain one of the most widely deployed pieces of software on the planet.
The content itself is the value: you get raw, unfiltered correspondence ranging from corporate legal threats to government inquiries to security disclosures, which is rare primary material. Covers 17 years of curl maintenance history, so you can watch the project's cultural and political environment evolve. Each email comes with Stenberg's commentary, making it more useful than just raw correspondence. The Perl script (`linkthem.pl`) and Makefile are minimal — no framework bloat, just a straightforward static site pipeline.
This is not a software project in any conventional sense — there is nothing to install, fork, or learn from technically. The 241 stars are entirely on the content, not the code, which makes it a strange fit for a developer tool discovery context. The Perl language tag is misleading; the actual artifact is markdown files and a 50-line script. No search or indexing on the GitHub side means browsing the archive requires either reading `list.md` or going to the external site.