commented:
I’ve been working on this for a while, and recently had some spare
time to finish it enough to not be embarrassed about its code. With
the addition of a simple output highlighter it’s a surprisingly decent
interactive IRC client as well, as long as you’re mostly lurking on a
few channels, and I’ve been happily using it for this the past few
weeks.

  commented:
Simple and lovely! Also, your Echt Kölnisch Wasser example number
didn’t go unnoticed :-)

  commented:
you mean we can finally pipe /dev/urandom into an irc chat?

  commented:
sure can!
</dev/urandom xxd -p | sed 's/^/PRIVMSG #chan :/' | ircpipe -j
'#chan' irc.example.org


  commented:
Very nice, the built-in SASL support looks handy.
ircdog from the Ergo project is another similar tool. It doesn’t do
automatic SASL (so you have to do it by hand) but it has a passthrough
option which I found very useful for debugging client issues.
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