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Gating Twitter to IRC using Perl and Net::Twitter

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

The other day I had a strop about someone carrying on a Twitter conversation in IRC, since I didn’t have a Twitter account and had no idea what people were talking about. It was at that point that I floated the idea of gating the channel members’ tweets into the channel so I would [...]

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I boycott freenode

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006

Following an extremely ill-advised and abusive April Fools “joke” by Rob Levin, who basically runs freenode, I have decided that I cannot support a network that condones such behaviour.
My main problem with the “prank” is that it completely disrupted the help channel of another network for a long period of time. In fact the [...]

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