Notes

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Feb 04 2022 07:16:23

I wrote an IRC client over the past couple days to chat from my Mac Plus (and to distract me from working on my BBS code)

In the mid/late 90s I would often try to clone mIRC in Visual Basic just to get better at Winsock programming and it usually looked just like this

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Jan 21 2022 13:38:33

OpenBSD has a very rigid way of doing things, which is great for security and attracts developers who have similar rigid thinking in life. I'm sure it appealed to me as a younger know-it-all. But over time, it's harder to cling to decades-old practices while the world moves on.