(2015-08-29) Parecki Why I Live In Irc

Aaron Parecki: Why I Live in IRC

I don't use an RSS reader, I visit Twitter and Facebook only occasionally, and I try to limit my email usage to only business. Instead, I have created filters from various sources that send notifications to various IRC channels about things I am interested in.

The numbers in the blue bar on the bottom correspond to IRC channels

information from several different types of data sources

several communities I am a part of where IRC is the primary means of communication

I rarely actually read my Twitter timeline. Instead, I follow several hashtags and search terms, which pipe to various IRC channels

My website uses IRC as a logging mechanism so that I have an easy way to know when it does things like import my bike ride logs from Runkeeper or my sleep logs from Jawbone.

Rather than needing to check github.com all the time, or turn on email notifications, I have IRC channels for various groupings of projects

I've been hacking on various Home Automation projects for many years. It always ends up seeming that the easiest way to get notifications of things is through IRC

For every channel I use for notifications, I run an IRC bot that has an HTTP server and listens to a few UDP ports

Another major benefit of having WeeChat be my primary interface and having it always signed in, is it stores logs of all channels as plain text files

At this point I am finding myself wanting some of the nicer features of a graphical interface, and I'm planning on finding or building a system that can replace my use of IRC.