https://mrcupp.com/tags/irc/Recent content in Irc on IamMrCuppHugoenmrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp)mrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp)Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:24:10 -0700https://mrcupp.com/post/2026-08-03-annoybots/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0700mrcupp@mrcupp.com (Aaron Cupp)https://mrcupp.com/post/2026-08-03-annoybots/<h1 id="the-bot-in-the-corner-of-every-channel">The bot in the corner of every channel</h1> <p>If you were on IRC in the early 2000s, you remember the bots. Eggdrop sat in the channel keeping ops straight and rejoining when somebody kicked it. BMotion babbled semi-coherent nonsense assembled from whatever the channel had been saying for the last hour, and occasionally it landed a line so perfect everyone assumed a human typed it.</p> <p>Both still exist. Both are also a TCL stack, and I am not spending my weekends maintaining TCL in 2026.</p>