uConsole and IRC

Jesse Dyer

14 Feb 2026 — 1 min read

I spent time today relearning IRC. Some very nice folk over at #chat on Libera introduced me to ZNC, and so I got that working, then Weechat on the Mac and the uConsole.

From there, had some fun building a plugin for sopel to relay some info to me on a private chat.

I haven't seen IRC for a long time; I'm enjoying being back. Good communities there.

When I did IRC back in the day, I was unskilled. Now, I find myself doing things like writing scripts to pipe the folks talking through TTS systems with assigned voices.

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