https://www.michelebologna.net/tags/irc/Recent content in Irc on Michele BolognaHugoenSat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2020/tls-terminated-bitlbee-with-custom-protocols/Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.michelebologna.net/2020/tls-terminated-bitlbee-with-custom-protocols/<p>Five years ago, I started <a href="https://github.com/mbologna/docker-bitlbee" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">docker-bitlbee</a>, a Docker container that runs <a href="https://www.bitlbee.org" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bitlbee</a> with a curated set of third-party protocol plugins pre-installed.</p> <h2 id="why-bitlbee"> Why Bitlbee? <a class="heading-link" href="#why-bitlbee"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>At the time, I was using IRC as my primary communications platform, but the rest of the world was fragmenting across Slack, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Telegram, and others. Installing a native client for each one wasn&rsquo;t appealing. Bitlbee bridges all of these into a single IRC connection: you talk to it with your IRC client, and it translates everything behind the scenes.</p>